Alright so I bought myself a new toy, a little handy netbook. It is a bit nicer to carry a 10-inch machine, instead of a 17 inch laptop around. In the shop they wanted to sell me all kinds of crap, for example Norton 360 anti-virus. When I said I didn’t need it, he asked …
Category Archive: Hacking
Feb
05
Jan
07
Adium message styles in Pidgin (Ubuntu Karmic)
I always liked Adium on OS X a lot, it’s the Mac fork of the famous Pidgin, a multi-protocol messaging client. I really LOVE Pidgin – but one thing was always missing – the fancy look. But finally, it can be helped! Here’s what to do. These steps are for Ubuntu 9.10 only. 1. Open …
Oct
19
Introducing: The Emperor's Screen
As you might have seen before, I managed to hook up 3 screens to my machine instead of just 2, and managed to stretch EVE on all of them, which is otherwise not possible with Vista. Now, to complete the setup, I bought two screens of identical size to the 22 inch which I already …
Oct
12
To The Power Of Three
Last EVE related post in a while, I promise! If you had enough of me and EVE, you should stop reading now… otherwise read on to see my latest trickery and hack. So. On this year’s keynote of CCP held in Iceland (Fanfest), they had shown quite a cool feature: the game on multiple screens. …
Feb
19
Can someone tell me why I didn't use Kubuntu before?
Right, so I have been playing around with Kubuntu, my new main desktop system, for like 2 days. There has been a bit of trickery and tweakery going on, like for example you have to tell ALSA that you are on a MacBook Pro Revision 3 in order to make the headphone jack work. Well …
Oct
04
Leopard Pro Tip: How to watch porn at work [NSFW]
When Leopard was released, it came with over 300 new innovations. Today, I wanna share with you how you could use one of those innovations to entertain yourself in the office if you’re bored.
Aug
10
Pimp My MythTV: Now with YouTube support
So this weekend I was kinda bored and was thinking about something productive I can do so I wouldn’t be sitting at home, alone, lonely, and dying from boredom. Well of course some geeky stuff comes to my mind. I was thinking that it would be cool if MythTV, my PVR solution of choice, would …
May
26
So what’s up next in games, or even watching TV?
Well the obvious answer to this one would probably be ‘even more high-def’. Okay, admittedly, at some point an image can reach such a depth that it is no longer distinguishable from reality. Some experts in Japan are working on the successor of HDTV, named UHDTV (Ultra High Definition TV). But don’t expect that to …
Feb
22
iPhone SDK release date
So the second last Friday of this month is here. With February coming to a close very quickly, Apple is yet to announce the exact release date for the software package that would open up the iPhone and iPod touch to developers. It has been rumored that Apple is holding a secret, yet unannounced event …
Feb
09
SEtv (BAtv Take 2)
Some months back I was showing off a multimedia PC I have built, that I named BAtv. The first two letters are the initials of the street in which the house is from which I have moved away last weekend. The box had the aim to provide a richer, centralized multimedia experience that should also …
