Category Archives: Computing
MacBook Air insides
The MacBook Air is lovely, but could use a bit more disk-space. Looks like the 5mm 1.8″ drive in the 1st generation product doesn’t come in larger capacities than 80GB. Ifixit and AnandTech have illustrations of the insides.
Free X server for Windows
I recently found XMing, a free X server for Windows, providing a useful alternative to VNC for accessing remote Ubuntu desktops. Instructions here.
Preserving UTF-8 filenames from Windows to Linux
On occasion I access (Ubuntu) Linux servers from Windows using Putty and WinSCP. In order to preserve UTF-8 filenames, some snakeoil is required.
Setting up SCP/SFTP chroot access to Ubuntu/x64 server
scponly provides a mechanism to enable secure file-access to a server, with marked improvement over FTP. scponly can be setup in a) normal mode, whereby the user can see the whole of the file-system of the server, or b) in … Continue reading
iPhone application development
Until Apple release the SDK for the iPhone, we are relegated to creating iPhone aware web-apps. I was inspired by the Facebook and Google optimised pages for the iPhone to investigate the details of the Safari browser. Here are some … Continue reading
Safari for Windows
As my iPhone sports Safari, I’ve been investigating this browser with more gusto than before. Safari has recently become available for Windows!
Vista ATI PCI Express driver problem
I just had a BSoD on my laptop running Vista. It rebooted, and when I selected the option for it to tell me why. It ‘fessed up to a BlueScreen crash. I took the recommended solution to install a service … Continue reading
Google IMAP support
I’m very pleased to find Google have added IMAP support to Gmail and their hosted email services. At long last I can process my email whilst offline, and keep Gmail in sync manually. And it’s all still free! Read Google’s … Continue reading
Dell shipping PCs with Linux
I spotted on Ubuntu‘s news-section that Dell finally have commenced shipping products (1 desktop, 1 notebook) with Ubuntu. Available in UK, Germany and France. Excellent!
Leveraging the connected humanity
Stumbled across this Google talk, nicely illustrating the additional information that can be obtained about data if you design your platforms in a way that engages the users to enjoy a challenge. A virtual hat tip to Luis von Ahn.