Month: November 2008

TR6 Progress

November 16, 2008 - Cars , TR6 , Vehicles - by admin - 2 Comments

After a slight hiatus, progress has been made on the TR6. Last Saturday, I managed to head out to the garage and get the fuel pump changed, along with the pipework to the carburettors. Instead of solid pipework snaking around the rocker cover and being held in place by a […]

DoF Courtesy of X-Modem

November 13, 2008 - Geek - by admin - No Comments

Whilst waiting for xmodem one day… I got very bored and had a shot at something involving depth of field. It’s a little digital pocket camera, so nothing fantastic.

Disable Compiz

November 11, 2008 - Computers , Geek , KDE , Linux - by admin - 4 Comments

Since KDE have ruined Kubuntu with KDE4, it’s time to use Gnome. However Compiz and glitzy pointless effects irritate me no end. A few quick commands will disable them for the current user… gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/metacity –type=string gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default /usr/bin/metacity –type=string The next time you log in, it […]

Hard Choice

November 11, 2008 - KDE , Linux , Things that annoy Kyle - by admin - 3 Comments

A few weeks ago I thought I would take the plunge, and installed KDE 4.1 on my Kubuntu 8.4 laptop. With the recent announcement of Intrepid being launched, I upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE4 as the default environment. I figured that I should get an early look at the […]

A Book Meme

November 5, 2008 - Books , Internet - by admin - 6 Comments

Normally you’re supposed to tag the next people to carry on the meme, but in Flash’s instance, she didn’t. So here goes anyway… If the connection between devices A and B breaks, then the devices know about it immediately because there is two-way communication between them, and they have now […]