December 11, 2009 – 10:54 pm
About a month ago I installed ethernet cables in all the rooms in our apartment. A really nice thing about new apartments is that it was just a matter of pulling cables through the tubes already laid under the floors and then setting up my router in the closet in the hall where all the [...]
February 6, 2009 – 9:44 am
After messing around with Mediatomb’s transcoding facilities I now have a working setup that allows me to listen to my Vorbis and FLAC encoded tracks via my PS3. The main trick is that Mediatomb 0.12 is required for this to work, so you need to check out the source code from the Mediatomb repository and [...]
August 21, 2008 – 12:59 pm
I signed up for 3G internet on my phone the other day, since I am currently in the middle of moving to my new apartment and probably wont have “real” internet for a while. I have a Nokia N95 8GB and using it as a USB modem is actually rather simple, only took a fifteen [...]
The software that comes along with the wonderful Nokia N95 8GB does not run in Linux. It might be possible to run it via wine but so far I have not gotten it to work (the installer crashes). However, transferring files between the phone and your computer via bluetooth is as painless as can be. [...]
I ended up needing Windows for various reason, so I decided to set up dual booting on my MacBook. I like the rEFIt bootloader which is a nice EFI bootloader and this guide explains the few steps needed in order to dual (or triple boot if you want OS X as well) a MacBook. This [...]
February 27, 2008 – 12:42 am
Sometimes I use my laptop keyboard, and other times (at home i.e.) I use a bluetooth keyboard. The two keyboards have different keymaps. In a closer-to-perfect world I would be able to tell Ubuntu that the laptop keyboard should use one layout and the bluetooth keyboard should use another layout, and it would figure out [...]
February 22, 2008 – 5:45 pm
I am the happy owner of a first generation black MacBook 13″. Running installing and running Ubuntu 7.10 on it is really a walk in the park except for small bugs but most of those are covered along with fixes here. Now it is quite likely that if you own a MacBook that you also [...]