February 17, 2005 – 4:58 pm
I tried out polypaudio a couple of days ago because Ubuntu is aparently switching to it. In general, it seems like a great concept, and I’ve heard great things about it, but I have this one problem: it dies with an assertion on ppc. It only seems to happen on PPC (x86 and [...]
January 7, 2005 – 2:05 pm
Best Buy has redeemed themselves in my eyes. I went in to my local store today and asked if I could order something there that was online. Sure enough, I could, so I ordered the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth. I tried the one they had in the store that was part [...]
January 6, 2005 – 8:08 pm
Word of advice: if you’re getting an iBook and you think you will ever use Bluetooth with it, make sure you get the Bluetooth option installed when you order it (it’s $50 extra). Otherwise, you’ll be paying more than that to get the module installed aftermarket. I took my iBook in today to [...]
November 23, 2004 – 9:47 am
Benjamin Herrenschmidt is the man. The week, he posted some patches to the debian-powerpc list for sleep on the Aluminum Powerbooks and iBook G4’s (basically, the new laptops with ATI cards). After 4 patches and relentless testing from eager users, I think he has it. There are only two flaws that I [...]
October 18, 2004 – 10:18 am
I’ve been asked about the theme I created for LiteStep last week. I don’t have it posted anywhere, but I do have a screenshot I took today:
I still have to work on the menus on the desktop (which aren’t shown in the screen shot), but it’s coming together nicely. Yes, I know, it’s [...]
October 5, 2004 – 10:41 am
Well, it’s official… my iBook’s hard drive is dying (it’s not dead yet!). The cool thing is that it’s covered under warranty, so getting it replaced costs me nothing but shipping & handling. But wait! There’s more! There seems to be an Apple Authorized Service Provider here in town, so it [...]
September 20, 2004 – 10:23 am
Yes, I caught the fever spreading like wildfire… I downloaded and installed Ubuntu. It’s a pretty darn sweet distro with only a few quirks:
1) It comes with pbbuttonsd as the default power manager. I tried it for a few days and found that pmud does a way better job with power management (I [...]
September 2, 2004 – 11:11 am
As you probably know from my last few posts, I’ve been looking for Bluetooth stuff and I think I’ve found something really cool: a bluetooth print adapter to do wireless printing. I also saw this one from Anycom and this one from HP, but the IOGEAR adapter looks the most promising. If any [...]
August 24, 2004 – 4:56 pm
I’m looking to get into the Bluetooth craze, but my iBook is not equipped with Apple’s preconfigured Bluetooth module (and you can’t get it installed aftermarket, from what I can tell). So, I guess that leaves me with the option to get a Bluetooth USB dongle. I know Apple recommends the D-Link DBT-120 [...]
So, I’m at my desktop at my internship and I forgot how crappy it was to actually work on a windows machine. I found the setting to turn on anti-aliased fonts (although, it isn’t as good as GNOME’s AA support), but I still miss virtual desktops. My mind works better when my work [...]