Over the past week and a bit, I’ve been playing around with Crunchbang Linux on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. The experience has been entertaining at least and Crunchbang works surprisingly well once you get it configured. Out of the box, Cunchbang is a fairly minimalist desktop environment, using Openbox and Tint as the desktop [...]
About a month ago, I upgraded the graphics card in my PC to a BFGTech 8800GT. I’d been experiencing some glitches on my two year old Nvidia 7900, probably due to the Zalman cooler I added to it not providing the VRAM with enough heat transfer combined with not enough air circulation in the case. [...]
Now that I’ve had an iPod touch for a little over a week and gotten used to it and what it’s capable of, I have a few ideas about what I wish it could do. These are maybe obvious omissions to its capabilities which would really beef it up as a portable entertainment device. iTunes [...]
Ok, this was weird. The command-line TextMate launcher, ‘mate’ was crashing for me in strange and exciting ways. I filed a ticket. A kind person replied back that some people were reporting that it was Logitech Control Center. Humoring the nice man, I dutifully removed Logitech’s preferences panel and drivers… and now ‘mate’ works. This [...]
In the past, I have talked no small amount of shit about Logitech‘s driver situation on the Mac. I don’t think it was unreasonable though, and I didn’t feel the least bit bad about dumping my Logitech MX Revolution for an Apple Mighty Mouse. I did, however, miss all the buttons. A word about writing [...]
No, I am not talking about the Repo Man coming into my house and taking away my aging PowerMac G5 (aka “hitomi”). Nope, I’ve repUrposed the machine as a sort of bedroom home-entertainment hub. Disconnected from my command center, I moved it upstairs and hooked it up to the 32″ Toshiba LCD screen and NAD [...]
Not since the release of the iPhone has so much noise been made about Apple. I am talking about Leopard, of course. It’s out now and you can get it from just about anywhere. Over 2 years ago, I wrote a great big review of Tiger. I’m not gonna do that for this release. Why [...]
I’ve been struggling with my Logitech keyboard and mouse combo for months now. Maybe years. The good people at Logitech make some nice products, but unfortunately, they can’t write Mac drivers to save themselves. The Logitech Control Center is a well-documented piece of shit and I’ve suffered long enough. Most recently, every time I load [...]
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