PostsSo, my main PC is a Acer Aspire M3201, cheap and cheerful, It has been fine for me.. But I’ve been transcoding some video lately and it feels sluggish compared to my works machine. It only has a x250 twin core processor: time to see what a RS780HVF motherboard can go up to: and the answer is: any AM3 socket chip which draws 95W or less, which includes several 4 core processors that are now dropping in price. Upgrade time soon I think.
 July 28th, 2011 |  Owen#6 : An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to the Enterprise’s computer, only to find out that it has forgotten to bring the right leads. July 5th, 2011 | Owen Honeycomb UI goodness. So now I have a working Android tablet; with ‘VegaComb‘ on it; a lash-up (hacked) version of Android 3.0 Honeycomb UI stuff running on a Android 2.3 kernel.. Very handy; biggest problem is that Flash is not working; so it’s just like having an Ipad July 1st, 2011 | OwenBooHiss: Looks like I need this: http://desire.giesecke.tk/advent-vega-steps-to-flash-a-new-rom/ I have a Brick; doorstop; paperweight.. whatever. Certainly not a working tablet.. Then see if I can get the Cyanogen Mod7 in on it June 10th, 2011 | OwenI’ve been running Fedora15 for a couple of weeks on my work computer; and I have to say I’m loving Gnome3.. lots of frustration when switching over, it’s not a traditional desktop interface.. much more radical than, say, Windows7. But a bit of perserverence and I’m starting to really get into how it works. But I cant wait for Gnome3.1, and I miss my screensaver January 5th, 2011 | Owen Toys for Boys My cool new toy; An android tablet.. I went out and got myself a POV Mobii Tablet, 10′ screen, running Android on a very efficient but fast Nvidia TegraII chipset. It’s the perfect antidote to the iPad. I’ve had it a week now and I am very impressed; it is fast, responsive, very portable and has excellent battery life (the screen backlight is the killer in this, keep it on minimum and I double my runtime.. which shows how efficient the rest of the machine is). Android is working well, although some dialogues and applications still betray the fact it was designed for small screen devices. I did a bit of work to get the Android 2.3 virtual keyboard; and flash running on it (actually all I did was hunt for and download down the relevant installers and double-click them) plus a few apps and a tweak that lets me run the ‘proper’ Android marketplace as well as the POV supplied one (which is not so good). Wifi is good once connected, but it can be slow connecting when I have changed locations. It ships with Android 2.2, but is ‘rooted’ as supplied, so I can replace key OS elements without having to hack it first. I am sure that I’ll be able to get the full Android 2.3 release on it eventually; and since the Galaxy tablet runs the same screen resolution (but in a 7′ form factor) and there are many 10′ android tablets in the pipeline, I’m sure that the UI experience is just going to get better. Also a hacking community is already building around it, and it’s ‘badge cousin’ the Advent Vega tablet sold in the UK. Apple fanbois please note: 1) I have multiple application markets on this (choice!) 2) It has a Standard USB port, I can plug a memorystick, or even a USB disk into it. 3) It has a bigger screen than the iPad.. 4) It has a HDMI port and can play full HD content (Nvidia Graphics.) 5) It plays Flash, Flash based websites simply work. (this is currently a hack, I installed the FlashPlayer beta myself; advantages of an open system!), an ‘official’ flash player is due later this month. 6) It has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.
December 10th, 2010 | Owen
– Henry Spencer November 11th, 2010 | OwenFirst post in a while, I’ve been ignoring the tech in order to devote some serious time to my boat, my fish, and myself. Fedora14 shook me out of my reverie a bit; I have it running on my netbook PC and home desktop (parallel to Windows7, which I also like but think is overpriced compared to Fedora! Now I have to finally install the touchscreen I have been hoarding for the last 8 months into the netbook.. I’m curious how it will work. All this is in preparation for going the the UK next month for a RedHat training course. April 20th, 2010 | OwenWell, since my last posting months ago, quite a lot, and nothing here. I’ve got a new car, some new fish, sorted some of my life out and been really busy. But no time to do anything much here, I hope nobody comes here regularly to read this.. (yeah.. right Current plan is to try and be more proactive with updates here, I have also been putting some technical stuff on my technical blog over at easytarget.org, and I will build a wiki at ezopic.org for my fish stuff. So this remains my personal site, I have a seperate space for my howto’s etc, and a place to write at length about the fish. May 28th, 2009 | OwenI’m so proud… I finally managed to add a block of random images from my gallery to the right-hand side of my homepage (You can probably see them now). I wasted loads of time playing with the wrong plugins to WordPress for this. Finally I just created a new RSS feed on my gallery set to dynamically provide random imagesfrom the whole gallery site. Then I used the Photo Sidebar Widget to display the first three images off the feed. This plugin does exactly what I want with no additional baggage, all the other solutions I found were vastly overcomplex (WPG2) or buggy (External Gallery2 Image Block Plugin). But! I had to modify it to work with Gallery2.3 on my system like so: Edit file: (you can do this via the WordPress inbuilt plugin editor if your system is setup to permit it.) .../wp-content/plugins/photo-sidebar-widget/photo_sb.php Find the following line: case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0": And add a new line below it: case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0": case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.7": This allows it to grab a RSS feed from gallery 2.3 (the original line is for Gallery2.2). It totally failed to display any images for me until I worked this out, adding the above made it instantly spring into life. April 27th, 2009 | OwenLots of Theme customisation has been done, but it’s not totally visible since the overall style has not changed yet, all the improvements so far are ‘peripheral’. There is a lot more to come.
Please drop by again April 17th, 2009 | OwenProbably my last posting via Blogger.com, No updates in over a year probably gave the game away. Lost some interest, but mostly just busy with stuff. However.. I have a new website done now (well.. nearly, it needs a load of themeing) which is built around wordpress so I’ll be able to keep the weblog going. I hope to import this blog into it as a ‘starting point’, and then flesh the site out a bit, but not too much |
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