Archive for the ‘General’ Category
The Beast
The Beast, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. Heavy HDR. Picture of the evil clown thingy in Seattle.
Gnome and the glslideshow screensaver setup.
First of all, setting up screensaver configurations in gnome is a total mess. I don’t know why they decided to release and use gnome-screensaver instead of using xscreensaver. And I don’t want to know either. My ubuntu setup is an archaic one. It’s an upgrade over an upgrade over an upgrade. I probably upgraded 4 [...]
Fire jumping
Fire man, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. This is a street performer jumping a fire rope while standing on a ball @ the Baltimore Harbor.
White squirrel?
White squirrel?, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam.
Printing envelope on a Canon MP620
I successfully printed my first envelope on my Canon MP620. I used Open Office and this wiki article from openoffice.org. Al I needed to do extra is to choose the orientation icon like this. The rest was just to feed the envelope from the manual feeder Easy and recommended!
Nokia n900 new firmware is out.
Nokia released a 16 MB minor release for the n900. The firmware version is: 3.2010.02-8 I had some issues with the update. I basically ran out of rootfs disk space. The update application complains as: Not enough space in location. For me disabling all the extra repositories and running apt-get clean; apt-get autoremove did the [...]
Better news on the n900 battery
I am starting to believe that my battery issues were 2-3 isolated incidents. Lately the phone is staying a full 13-15 hours without any issues with moderate usage: 3g/wifi browsing, media player + FM transmitter and the rest. One thing I did is to remove the RSS applet and empty the RSS feeds. I almost [...]
More about battery life on my n900
This battery life situation is kinda pissing me off. I wrote a script to get charge, battery %, and cpu load. Made it run every 10 mins to collect the data. I unplugged the phone at 9:40 am. No 3g, no wireless, very few interaction. About 10-20 mins phone conversation. And at 15:30 the battery [...]
Nokia n900 review
Background information: All and all I’m definitely a Linux person. That means my expectations from n900 was primarily to be hackable I’m also coming from the world of blackberry. My previous hand-held was 8320. Other than being an extremely well designed smart-phone for business and email, it was pretty much useless for me. In this [...]
WOW OTP Goodness
OK, the title means: World of Warcraft One Time Password Goodness. I just got my OTP generator from Blizzard. It has a nice horde colors touch. The activation was very simple. I was expecting that it would replace my static password, but it didn’t. Instead it asks your password first (what you know) then it [...]
