Category Archives: Planet

Tethered to o2

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Andrew

I’m on a train tomorrow, and thought it was a good opportunity to use my phone as a wifi hotspot. This works flawlessly with the Samsung Wave 3 (though the GUI to turn it on is a bit suboptimal). It … Continue reading →

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Out for delivery?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Andrew

It feels like my Amazon order has been in transit for ages. It was dispatched over 40 years ago and I’m still waiting …

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Media and storage of the future

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Andrew

I just lost a hard disk. No big deal. My somewhat complicated home media setup is this: I have a Samsung TV plugged in to a first generation AppleTV. The AppleTV is connected to the network via wired ethernet to … Continue reading →

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Statistics

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Andrew

Borrowing from Alex King’s Simple SQL Queries for Blog Stats, here’s some stats on this blog. The first post “It’s alive!” was made on 31st May 2003, some nine years ago. There have been 1,572 posts. On average, there are … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Sunday

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day two: Sunday. Barebox Reason for attending this talk: to understand more of the technical details behind fast boot of Linux devices, which will be an important factor … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Saturday

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day one: Saturday. FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, an annual free event hosted in Brussels and entirely organised and run by volunteers. … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Tizen

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

The Tizen source and SDK were unleashed yesterday, and I’ve just had a first glance. The documentation is a bit all over the place, so here’s some notes on getting up and running. For more information on what’s going on with … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2010

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Andrew

Although I’ve been a regular at FOSDEM for a few years now, I’ve been rather poor in ensuring my notes got onto this blog. In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2010. The Free and Open … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Andrew

Cringely has a bunch of predictions for 2012. They all feel wrong, for one reason or another. Let’s run through them. A new CEO for Apple: No. Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs: No. Shareholders don’t understand Amazon and will … Continue reading →

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Macbook Pro SSD saga, part three

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Andrew

So previously my Macbook Pro stopped booting and got stuck at the grey boot screen. Then after a week at Apple for repair, they called me to tell me the SSD was stopping the Macbook Pro from booting. Yesterday I … Continue reading →

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