Category: Computers

UK is Embargoed

May 15, 2008 - Computers - by admin - No Comments

Now, I don’t claim to keep up with the news as it happens when it happens, but I’m sure I would have heard about the UK being embargoed by the USA… Instead, I seem to be hearing of it 2nd hand through Sun Microsystems…

Are we still terrorists?

February 22, 2008 - Buildings , Computers , Internet , Openstreetmap , Things that annoy Kyle , United Kingdom , Urban Exploration - by admin - No Comments

It would appear so… To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk CC: Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Dear City of London Police, I see that we still have not had a response to this request for information. Please can you provide the answers that we seek, or suggest alternative routes to go down. If we are to be […]

Mappers are terrorists?

January 30, 2008 - Buildings , Computers , Internet , Openstreetmap , Things that annoy Kyle , United Kingdom , Urban Exploration - by admin - 6 Comments

A recent public email I wrote, after the worrying quotes published in http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Festival-is-key-terror-target.3723328.jp To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk CC: gm39@st-andrews.ac.uk, Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, info@rcahms.gov.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Hi, This is a public email, also available at http://lodge.glasgownet.com/mappers-are-terrorists/ I have also included some other recipients that may consider raising this issue at a higher level, may also be […]

The O2 Lives!

January 26, 2008 - Computers , Geek - by admin - 1 Comment

For a while now, my SGI O2 has languished in the cupboard after being diagnosed with an unknown fault. I decided to dig it out again and have a quick look at it. Powering it up seemed successful, and I got the audio chime but no display. A quick bit […]

High resolution fonts

January 14, 2008 - Computers , Linux - by admin - No Comments

For a while now, I’ve been running Kubuntu x64 on this shiny Dell D820 laptop. It runs at quite a high resolution for a laptop (1920×1200), and the Nvidia drivers try to be smart by increasing the font dpi. This has the knock on effect of making the fonts ugly […]