Monthly Archives: January 2009

Nicola’s out tonight so I’m at home amusing myself with films and things. I upgraded my flat asterisk VOIP server to 1.6.x (from 1.2.x): now the VOIP client on my Nokia E51 mobile works perfectly with it (the phone VOIP stack tended to crash with 1.2.x). So: I’ve set the E51 to transparently register itselfContinue reading “Tum te tum”

Ever since I switched to using HDMI/DVI to connect my HDTV to my media box, there has been a slight problem: overscan. The HDTV chops a bit off the edges of the picture, in order to hide any possible graphical rubbish which might be there (quite common with some equipment). My media box doesn’t haveContinue reading “This morning’s hacking: KDE 4.2 HDMI HDTV Overscan Fix”