Tonight I wanted something new but still familiar so I reached for one of my favourite internet-assisted pastimes: needlessly updating my software to bleeding-edge releases or something. Tonight’s victim was my media player. The latest build of Clementine (Windows Mac Misc Linux) has this for an analyzer: If you choose Clementine, make sure you right-click [...]
This hack will let you install unsigned applications on Symbian OS devices. I’m using a Nokia E63 which runs S60v3 (FP1). This was current as of writing (18th August, 2011). You’ll Need: To read over this whole guide before you start, OK? A Developer’s Certificate. This 874k .ZIP file: Hello OX v2.03 and an SIS [...]
I've been waiting a very long time for this: BeOS and Haiku, its open-sourced phoenix were the operating systems that got me excited about operating systems. This was back before I knew how to subscribe to a blog or anything. Back when I thought blogs were just online diaries. Anway, you can download the alpha [...]
When Chrome came out I was happy because it is a browser that is by default, pretty slim up the top there with all of the navigation bits and tab bar stuff. I have a smallish laptop with a small resolution so it’s important to me that I use every pixel I have at my [...]
Today I downloaded a .pdf ebook of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller that was in Comic Sans. Obviously that wasn’t good enough so I converted it to plain text and html-d it with pdftotext then styled it a bit. Catch-22 Hopefully this isn’t very illegal.
I made some more nice eye candy for you guys. Try reading this. It’s pretty complicated but very soothing.
Today I invented something that I believe could do the world a great deal of good. It’s called “Bitch” and it’s a USB dongle thing that reminds your computer that you own every fucking atom of which it is composed. Now – on UNIX based systems you can just sudo or su in the shell [...]
So two or three days ago I bought a new computer. Things My New Computer Can Do That My Old One Can’t Stay on when unplugged for more than twenty minutes Things My New Computer Can’t Do That My Old One Can Run NetHack in the shell. Seriously – I can’t “install Rosetta” because I [...]
Just to clarify a point from the first essay: I do not mean to propose anything about the actual name of the VR product. “Realise” is what I believe companies will call the process of virtualisation for the reasons I have already laid out. For now instead of referring to the ubiquitous “companies” I am [...]
The message of the future is: “Realise Your Dreams.”