Category: Linux

Sure/Smartie LCDProc

December 22, 2009 - Cars , Computers , Cool things , Geek , Land Rover , Linux - by admin - 3 Comments

Recently I’ve been looking at getting a computing device into the Land Rover. Short of buying a full sized 7″ touch screen, I opted to go for a slightly cheaper £20 4×20 LCD display. This was more to be proof of concept, and give me a starter to work on, […]

Touchatag and RFIDIOt

December 13, 2009 - Geek , Linux - by admin - No Comments

A while back, Alcatel Lucent were flogging off cheap Tikitag readers and tags due to a naming error. They subsequently became Touchatag, and I picked up a cheap RFID reader and 100 tags for about 10 quid. Bonus. Now to get it working on Linux. Adam Laurie helpfully wrote the […]

Zattoo on Kubuntu 0804

February 15, 2009 - Linux - by admin - No Comments

Want to make Zattoo work on Kubuntu 0804? It’ll most likely fail silently, without spitting out any useful error information. Some chopping up of ldd /usr/bin/zattoo_player output reveals that it’s useful to run sudo apt-get install dbus-x11, at which point zattoo_player will start working.

Egroupware and SyncML fix

January 31, 2009 - Geek , Life , Linux - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently I acquired a HTC Touch HD, and in order to connect it to my eGroupWare installation, I purchased the Synthesis SyncML client to do the necessary translation. Now, Charlotte’s SonyEricsson has a built in SyncML client (which I’ll be playing with when back in the UK), but Microsoft didn’t […]

Not Alone

January 24, 2009 - Gnome , KDE , Life , Linux - by admin - No Comments

Well, it’s nice to see that I’m not alone in my recent decision to change…