Ok, I'll admit it. Ever since I saw Hackers I've wanted a painted laptop. I finally got around to finding a good graphic and painting it onto my IBM x31 Thinkpad. The hardest part was cutting the stencil out. I then lightly coated it with mineral oil to keep the paint from sticking to the [...]
The LG CU500 Phone is one of Cingular's new non-smart 3G phones, and can be purchased relatively inexpensively with a contract. (Amazon sells them for 0.01 with a 2 year contract, cingular charged $50 the last time I checked.) Although it doesn't have a mini-qwerty keyboard and good email support like the Blackjack, 8525, [...]
My new Motorola RAZR V3xx phone is Cingular branded, which means that Cingular has added many money making links to it ("Shop Cingular!") and have hidden some of the nicer features that Motorola originally built into the phone. For example, Cingular has hidden the IMAP4/POP3/SSL email client that is built into the phone. Luckily [...]
I have a Motorola cell phone, and when it is plugged into my linux laptop via a USB cable it appears as a /dev/ttyACM0 device. (Unless I already have an ACM device plugged in, then it appears as /dev/ttyACM1). BUT, it's much nicer to be able to point my phone programs (such as kmobiletools and [...]
I created this script which will convert a movie to play on a cell phone (.3gp format). It works on Mandriva linux, and uses ffmpeg (because my version of mp4creator didn't work).
If, for some reason your linux computer won't boot, it could be because the bootloader has gotten correupted. If you are using GRUB, a few things could have gone wrong, but I will describe how to do a complete re-install of grub, and then set up the boot menu again. The system I was working [...]
I purchased a D-Link DWL-G122 802.11g USB Adapter to use with my Mandriva Linux based router and was pleased to find that it worked out of the box. (I was also pleased to find a desk dock for USB sticks included in the box.) Mandriva installed a wireless Ethernet device named "rausb0" which worked [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
For the last month I have been able to boot and run my laptop's Windows partition from inside a vmware server that runs under my (dual boot) Mandriva Linux partition. This is very useful when I need to run something in windows but don't want to shut down Linux and reboot.
I found the instructions on [...]
Using the Java Media Framework is an easy way to build java applications that can record, edit, and play videos, but the number of video codec's that it supports is limited. Unless you want to go with a quicktime format, MPEG1 is a good choice (although the files can be a bit large) for portability. [...]
List of WiFi Adapters supported by Linux
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ has a very nice list of many different wifi adapters (PCI PCMCIA & USB) and their driver support status on Linux.