Category Archives: Linux

If it moves, it breaks!

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Branedy

Having been in IT for the better part of 30 years, I still sometimes forget, so when the New 500GB disk in my new laptop threw an error, I thought it was my fault. It wasn’t, it was, what is … Continue reading →

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My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Branedy

This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking the Raspberry-Pi

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Branedy

This is a crude and simple PI test against the Raspberry-Pi and a Dell Pentuim-4 (3.0Ghz) The Raspberry-Pi Starting PI… x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001 Pi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000 real 0m1.900s user 0m1.720s sys 0m0.000s … Continue reading →

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The CnM Touchpad II – as a practical Pad

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Branedy

In my previous posting, I mentioned all the things this pad can’t or rather doesn’t do. To make this all balanced, I will put what it can do, into perspective. For Instance, at a cost approximately the same as a … Continue reading →

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MeeGo is now Dead, as a Mobile OS.

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Branedy

This article MeeGo will not displace Symbian as enterprise OS has now demonstrated that Meego is no longer supported by Nokia, and it will be left to die with Maemo as a ‘Non-Runner’ in the Mobile-OS arena. It also indicates … Continue reading →

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Geeks and their toys

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Branedy

A couple of weeks ago a friend from work was clearing out their place, I assume that his wife was involved, but in any case my collection of computers grew a bit when he offered to gift them to me. … Continue reading →

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Apple’s outrageous share of the mobile industry’s profits

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Branedy

That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? Pie chart: Apple’s outrageous share of the mobile industry’s profits In any other businesses this would be called a RIP OFF! by Apple, but with the Apple-Fanboy base, They can do no … Continue reading →

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The Nokia N900 plays in a different world

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Branedy

When the Nokia N900 does real-time face tracking it again demonstrates why it’s not playing in the same SmartPhone world as the iPhone and Android phones.

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My Nokia N900 is Broken

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Branedy

Or rather fractured, at least as far as the operating system. It appears that the DSP, a function (I think) of the GPU (PowerVR SGX) is not working as the DMESG command executed in the terminal application results in the … Continue reading →

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Another Reason to Love Nokia and Maemo

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Branedy

It’s not Google and it’s Deadly Power of Data I have always been leery of Power. I don’t buy Microsoft , and I’ve stopped playing into Apple fandom. The last computer I bought was a home-brew DIY Server built from … Continue reading →

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Committed to Maemo 5

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Branedy

I gone and done it, I’ve committed to a pre-order for a Nokia N900 from Amazon so sometime in the next X Days I’ll be on the Maemo 5 bandwagon. After pondering Android, Vodafone 360, Palm WebOS and Maemo, I … Continue reading →

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Decisions decisions too many mobile phone choices.

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Branedy

For a change, I have money to burn, some, anyway, and while I love my Nokia 6300 mobile phone, I thought I’d splash out and go for a new ‘smartphone’. But the choices are endless, I like the Nokia E71, … Continue reading →

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Legacy Unix always works

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Branedy

Great, I now have a printer that works, but not due to any fancy new features, and also not due to my brilliance, though it should have. But again I am reminded (via Google) to remember the one thing that … Continue reading →

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Webmin back door

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Branedy

NOTE: Do not accidently drop your own permissions to su to root. {Unless you happen to remember to have Webmin running. } This weekend while trying to get CUPS to print on my DYI-Server I managed to grant myself ‘CUPS … Continue reading →

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A different thing in a real OS.

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Branedy

Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get … Continue reading →

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