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Ubuntu, PPC, Fail

Tim — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:46:26 +0000

I have an old Powerbook G4 hanging around doing nothing, and I thought I’d try to get Ubuntu going on it. The install was fairly straight forward but unfortunately there were too many things that turned out to be a hassle. I worked out some things, but then decided the hassle wasn’t worth it. I’m [...]

Garage Cleanup

Tim — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:32:34 +0000

Give a guy some time alone, some work to do and a new piece of software to play with and interesting things are bound to happen. I found Gawker yesterday which is a great little OSX app that lets you make time-lapse movies with the built in or external webcam (or both). It also lets [...]

Tweets for 2009-03-27

Tim — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:30:00 +0000

@dryas Here’s a list of Mac apps. A couple of them are time trackers. http://tr.im/hThb 12:53:46 One of the big problems with the flooding in MB is ice jams… I’m no expert, but I’m sure even the Canadian army has some explosives. 15:06:25 Saw a job ad wanting a PI expert. Not sure what that [...]

Links for February 19th through March 1st

Tim — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:01:17 +0000

Linux tips every geek should know | TuxRadar. Tags: linux Testing RAM on a Mac. Tags: OSX While You Were Out – Apple’s Years With and Without Steve Jobs – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com. Tags: Apple to_Read Port Map and TCMPortMapper. Tags: tools OSX How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS [...]

Tweets for 2009-02-27

Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:10:17 +0000

Dell Mini 10′s available in Canada now. http://tr.im/gYIu 07:37:18 Yeah, so the Mini10 has the Intel GMA500 graphics chipset which doesn’t have OSX drivers. Oh well, the 9″ it is. 09:33:52 US Dell Mini 9 is down to $199. CA Linux version still $379. http://tr.im/gQqi 10:00:40 @cote I’ve kicked visiting websites and replaced it with [...]

Tweets for 2009-02-23

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:10:18 +0000

Some days I just don’t have anything to say on Twitter. 11:16:43 Seems to be problems with the Twitter Digest plugin (http://tinyurl.com/dc7uug). If you use it and have problems ping me. 11:18:27 I think trad. retail has already lost to online, but they could at least try to make the hands-on experience competitive…. 11:48:50 Best [...]

Tweets for 2009-02-20

Tim — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:10:11 +0000

EeePC 1000HE shipping for all you lucky orderers. http://tinyurl.com/cypk2g (via @engadget) 08:26:02 The Dell Mini 10 is now at the top of my list (if the $$ ever materializes for a netbook). Via @engadget again. http://tinyurl.com/avptol 08:57:39 I wonder if OSX will run on the Mini10 as well as it does on the Mini9…. 08:58:41 [...]

Debian, Leopard and AFP

Tim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:47 +0000

Debian 5.0.0 was released this past weekend and I thought, what better time to sit down for a few minutes and re-install my basement Debian server. As usual, everything went swimmingly and I was mostly done the install rather quickly (as opposed to the WinXP install I’m doing now, but that’s another story). I did [...]

Links for February 5th through February 10th

Tim — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:07 +0000

These are my links for February 5th through February 7th

Tweets for 2009-02-06

Tim — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:43:57 +0000

How can Apple call PowerBook G4s obsolete when they only stopped making them 3 years ago? Color me confused. http://tinyurl.com/cdfl3k 15:48:04 Carbon nanotubes now 100K times faster than before. Nanotube memory now be faster than commercial flash. http://tinyurl.com/c4f9rh 15:04:53 Actually the new Acer Aspire will have a N280 option, but that one comes with 3G. [...]