Tum te tum
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…
This morning's hacking: KDE 4.2 HDMI HDTV Overscan Fix
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…
Success!
Woo! I've been fiddling with my Nokia N770 all evening. I've managed to build a custom kernel (2.6.25) for it using openembedded, and get it to boot it. Of course, it being a keyboardless and ethernet…
Quote of the evening
"Does your battery always make that whining noise? ... whats that burning smell?" My mate Colin was round again this evening :)
autumn leaves HDR
autumn leaves HDR Originally uploaded by adq\uk I've Been attempting some more HDR photos based on the ones I took on Sunday.
Hmm
You know, you begin to wonder if you've taken things too far when you have to upgrade the firmware and server software for your alarm clock. Mmm, technology.
A wee bit of detective work
A friend, Colin (he of the burning batteries), sent me this photo of the first PDP-7 being delivered to Edinburgh DCS: I didn't recognise the location, but he managed to make out "Hope Park something"…
Bus crash, York Place
Dreadful!
TV recorder redesign
On Wednesday, I sat down, redesigned, then implemented my TV recording system's channel guide. As you may or may not be aware, over the last two years, I've hacked my own automated TV recording system…
Pre festival wander
roof detail of the bank hotel.png Originally uploaded by adq\uk