Right, so it’s Sunday evening and Quintin just made an entry about send-notify. This immediately made me think of non-root users and ACPI and how I had a script on my previous laptop that popped up notifications when battery state changed. And so inspiration set in and I decided it’s time to redo that hack and publish it. Read the rest of this entry »
ACPI based battery state notifications
January 16th, 2011ULS GRUB Splash, boot splash and loaders
December 18th, 2010I’ve been messing with this idea in my head for a while now. The artwork can probably be improved a lot, but considering that I only have 14 colors to work with for starters, and the fact that the kernel frame buffer can be a PITA to work with, I’m quite chuffed. Frankly: It took longer to get the flippen video uploaded and working than it took to do the work…
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The superflous subject line
November 15th, 2010So it’s that time of the day again where I try to figure out which emails I missed in the last two hours is important, and which I can ignore till 17:00. And this is what my INBOX looks like:
Re:
Re: [Fwd]
Re: Attention Steven
Re:
Fwd: Re:
Re: MyOwnCompanyName
Needless to say. I feel violated. No, the above is really not a massive over-exaggeration. The truth is I just skipped a few (three or four) entries with sane Subject lines. And it’s been a good day seeing that there was only about 10 missed emails in the two hours.
MWeb touted with good service?
October 28th, 2010This short entry outlines my experiences with them on Tuesday and this morning. Needless to say – if another companies name appear on this blog it’s almost always for the wrong reasons.
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