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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”

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 ethernetless internet tablet means that it just sits there 🙂 Enter the magic of the wonderful CDC-Ether protocol! This allowsContinue reading “Success!”

“Does your battery always make that whining noise? … whats that burning smell?” My mate Colin was round again this evening 🙂

autumn leaves HDROriginally uploaded by adq_uk I’ve Been attempting some more HDR photos based on the ones I took on Sunday.

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 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” on the street sign. Searching for “hope park edinburgh computer science” yielded this AI history page, which reveals AI canContinue reading “A wee bit of detective work”

Dreadful!

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 together using a Hauppauge Nova-TD dual tuner USB stick, and some perl and php scripts. It works pretty well, andContinue reading “TV recorder redesign”

roof detail of the bank hotel.pngOriginally uploaded by adq_uk

dean gallery, in reflection.pngOriginally uploaded by adq_uk