Wine Doors

If you have a RaspberryPi, or you’re looking to get one consider contributing to my Kickstarter. The HotPi is a really small and simple board to add a Real Time Clock, an LIRC compatible IR transmitter (with a respectable range, tested upto 3m) and receiver, an RGB LED for indicating system status or just as [...]

Matthew, I am well aware of problems caused by using national flags. If you could take the time to look at the UI designs further you’ll see that it is specified that “All layouts and input methods have an icon which is written in the respective native character set. In essence whatever is in the [...]

I’m here at UDS and I must say it’s a great atmosphere. I’m very much enjoying my time here and getting a chance to talk to some great minds about where ayatana is going and how it’ll be getting there. I’d really like to thank Mark, Jorge, David Barth and anyone else I haven’t mentioned [...]

Recently me and my girlfriend purchased a Car from the Gateshead Motor Company (aka; Team Valley Cars LTD) the car was a nice model, BMW 520i from 1999, and at the price of £999, who could say no? I was assured by the salesman that the car was in perfect condition, no known faults and [...]

To bring attention to a legal problem a friend of mine is having I decided to blog in order for those of you out there with some legal-understanding to remark on the following email conversation and letter. ... [More] http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/observer-tm.txt http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/observer-tm.pdf I’m asking mostly for clarification and advice here, as we see it; as the company didn’t [...] [Less]

Human interaction is important with user interfaces but it’s also important in other areas. Feeling that the actions you take have a real effect is very important. This is very true of musical instruments, the last thing you want from a musical instrument is something like a kazoo which is so far away from producing actual [...]

My history teacher in school taught me some things which weren’t exactly part of the class but were key to understanding history and current affairs without bias. One of these teachings is something I’ll share with you here “If you look at the past you may lose an eye, if you don’t you may lose [...]

Just as a matter of interest I asked Juergbi of a way to write a singleton in vala. He proposed the following not-intended to be thread safe method of writing a simple singleton in vala. class Foo { Foo () { } static Foo instance; public Foo get () { if (instance == null) { [...]

Please could you fix it for me, to have sound working on my MacBook 5,2 when lucid is released. I don’t know if it works yet but I sure hope it does, manual installs get me down kthanksbye

I’m always losing files in my immense collection of accumulated documents and structures of folders, which have for a long time become slightly less than contextual. Lurking in many depths of paths structured as per; ... [More] /home/karl/Miscellaneous/Misc/Other/Stuff/Old Stuff/Things from before/A long time ago/ are useful files I barely remember creating. With tracker, and fster we’re edging toward a [...] [Less]