Healthy!
Cool: http://www.canadianliving.com From a man from Ireland: “My number one health tip is: walk everywhere possible! Since work is a 35-minute walk from home, I try to walk home every day, and I mean...
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Some NYC artists are moving to Berlin, for lower prices and a vibrant arts scene: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505553,00.html And, Der Spiegel’s look at Europe’s “coolest” city:...
View ArticleDebian & Nvidia & Kernels 2.6.20/21
Getting this error message after you’ve compiled the nvidia video module and try to load it: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘paravirt_ops’ This happens because...
View ArticleDebian: weird mouse behaviour
In my last post I upgraded to the 2.6.22 kernel to get the nvidia closed source driver to work. Since then the behaviour of the mouse has been very weird: Clicks register as double-clicks Can’t access...
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We have got to get our groove back.
From the NYTimes: Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9/11 — even though the dollar is weak and America...
View ArticleUbuntu & Bluetooth, & SD Card.
Just got a Bluetooth dongle (adaptor) from NewEgg (for $12.99). To get it to be able to browse (using Gnome) my phone I had to install the gnome-vfs-obexftp package (along with the bluez-gnome...
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Canadian Living article about Boston
Written by my friend Helen, and with input from meself: http://www.canadianliving.com By Helen Racanelli and Mick Timony Traveling to Boston for a vacation, either for business or with the kids? From...
View ArticleLook and add your cell phone signal strength
In my neighbourhood: http://signalmap.com/us?carrier=1&lng=-71.085798&zoom=14&lat=42.34964
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Adriondacks
2 interesting articles about the Adriondacks from the NYTimes: Adirondacks Are Hot. That’s Good. Or Not. Logging Is Part of a Plan to Preserve Adirondacks Which has this multimedia presentation:...
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Meat!
And I like a nice steak now again, but then I think that’s the point. Too much red meat is bad for one, so why not cut down on overall red meat consumption but still enjoy a nice steak now and then:...
View ArticleUS Air Traffic as Art
Some lad plotted all the air traffic in the US on one day and it looks likes art: http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/11/24_hours_of_air_traffic_never_1.html
View ArticleUS Wireless Carriers: Bandwidth & Spectrum
Good blog posting about who has and who hasn’t bandwidth & spectrum amongst the US Mobile phone networks: http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/11/05/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum/ The US has 6 bands that are...
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Hardware articles
2 good ones: 1st, if your picking a CPU cache is very important, maybe more important than minor changes in clock speed: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/24/does_cache_size_matter/ And, NVidia came...
View ArticlePick a candidate!
For US President, from Minnesota National Public Radio: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/poll.php?race_id=13
View ArticleUbuntu Linux, T-Mobile, & Nokia N73 as a Bluetooth Modem.
If bluetooth works on your computer, then getting your system to talk to your N73 isn’t hard and I’m not going to cover it here. See this posting for what packages I needed to install to get bluetooth...
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Mac4Lin
Make your Linux Gnome Desktop look like a Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin Instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_linux_look_like_a_mac This is what my desktop like...
View ArticleHas Ireland’s property market gone mad?
€200,000 for a derelict auld cottage and calling it derelict is praise for the condition it’s in: http://www.mattosullivan.com/prop_display.php?id=305 But, browsing for other properties turned up a...
View ArticleUbuntu & Hibernate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/105490 Had the same problem but replace the UUID in /etc/fstab with the actual device. Looks like I needed to also update...
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