Finally got this to work properly. The biggest trap is that when it restores / upgrades / whatever, it changes its USB ID, so don’t filter just on what it is when its working, or it will get stuck in recovery mode. DAMHIK.:
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Moving all the *.zoic.org stuff off onto asmallorange. So far, completely blown away by the speed of customer service and the range of features available. Should be a significant improvement over hosting it at the end of my home ADSL!

Sick of hearing about iPad yet? I am Nonetheless …

Whether it is or isn’t a glorified iPod Touch, what’s most interesting about the device, for me, is that it _isn’t_ an ePaper device (like the kindle, &c). It’s battery life is pretty good anyway, but I guess the idea is you’d use it much like your phone … use it on batteries, but recharge early, recharge often.

It’s a pity though, because if anyone could carry off a stylish, minimalist user interface specifically designed for touchscreen ePaper, it’s Apple. Love them or loathe them, they do do design well.

Always on. No buttons. Just the bezel. Gestures at the edge of the display. Hand-drawn icons in charcoal. That kind of thing.

hmmm.

PS: just bought an iPhone, I wonder how it’ll go as a book reader?

Whatever it is you’re celebrating at this time of year, happy *that*

I’ve got Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (64 bit) running on the laptop now, and its a big stablity improvement over the previous.

There’s a couple of little tweaks I had to put in place to get things to work perfectly:

Bluetooth Power on Resume

Write the following to: /etc/hibernate/scriptlets.d/x301_bluetooth

x301_bluetooth_enable() {
logger "Waking up Bluetooth"
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/bluetooth_enable
}

AddResumeHook 33 x301_bluetooth_enable


… and on that note, how many times must that particular rc.d wheel be reinvented?

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Any sufficiently flexible methodology is indistinguishable from doing it however you feel like.

To prove him wrong, here is a picture of my cat.

So, yeah, I now have a blog, because Steve Yegge says I should. He may not, I admit, have been thinking of me personally when he wrote that.

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