Archive for May, 2006

Smack my book up!

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Kris pointed me to a nice video showing another nice possibility of the AMS sensor that is in all recent Apple notebooks.

Sometimes, it amazes me how a simple idea can turn out to be so cool: just detect a tap on your screen to switch screens. This idea was Erling Ellingsen’s idea.

I just installed it this afternoon and it’s really cool, though it will need some finetuning so it always switches in the right direction…

I have some doubts whether I will continue using it, because I like Exposé more than DesktopManager…

Anyway, one feature request would be to filter out annoying colleagues’ banging on the table…

MythTV workshop

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Yesterday I gave a small workshop on how to use a Linux machine as a digital multimedia center. As the intended audience was not the Linux-savvy geeks, I chose to use KnoppMyth and built myself a machine with MythTV 0.19-fixes on some very nice hardware, thanks to Kris: a total of 300 GB harddisk space and a Hauppauge PVR-500.
Anyway, if you want to read more about it, I’ve put my presentation online. You can download it here.