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iPod Nano 2G Fun: Rockbox r27995 Update
I’ve been poking around at the current build (r27995-1000903 at the time of this writing) of Rockbox today, and other than the occasional random panic (oh joy) that locks up the iPod and requires a...
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Rockbox: Bugfix and Feature For Nano2G
Just a quick note to myself, and to other users of Rockbox on the iPod Nano 2nd generation. I highly recommend using BOTH these patches, as the bugfix prevents a LOT of frustration and the feature...
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Double Double, Toil and Trouble
During the time I’ve written in this blog, there have been only two bits of non-Packard-Bell technology that have given me trouble: my Acer Aspire One AO751h-1279 netbook, and my iPod Nano2G. The...
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Who Says IceWM is Ugly?!
Okay, I’ll grant that the themes that come with the Ice Window Manager from its source repository are quite unattractive to many. Drab, flat gray or annoyingly contrasting colors scream “mid-1990′s”....
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Resurrection is Hard Work
Even when it’s just software, and not living beings! For the past month, I’ve been working on a long list of Ice Window Manager themes. Organizing, labeling, judging free-or-not-free (as in freedom,...
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IceWM 1.3.7 Released
Most IceWM development has been in a state of deep freeze for years now — mostly new language translations and bugfixes, from what I can see. The long-time stable version (1.2.37) has been in...
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Project Permafrost
Finally, after two months of work, the first part of my latest project is out in the wild for all to help with. Project Permafrost is my attempt to create a central community for users of the Ice...
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Trying To Deal With Compressed SWF
We all know Flash is a major pain — from Adobe’s own Flash player’s lack of performance to the security problems and nonfree status of said plugin. Not to mention the often-poor compatiblity of the...
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Xbox Tweaking: Jedi Academy
Today’s post will be pretty useless for anybody that doesn’t have a modified Xbox that is NOT a 360, a copy of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy for the Xbox, and said game backed-up to the hard...
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Yeeloong 8089B: Some Performance Tweaks
Some time ago, I purchased a Lemote Yeeloong 8089B from Tekmote Electronics. It’s not exactly a powerful device, even for a netbook — extremely weak graphics chipset, a single-core Loongson 2F CPU...
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Funky Fonts Flocking, Free From … Foundry Fog? Eh, I Give Up
Or: So, You Installed NoScript, and Now You’re Getting Boxes with Numbers In Them Or: I’m Not Even Using NoScript! These Kids’ Unicode Emojis Just Have Garbage Characters In Them! Yeah, kinda hard to...
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