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Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one

The Road to Coreboot, Part the First: Introduction

So as part of my IAESTE placement with PC Engines, I’m investigating the possibility of them making a new board based around the AMD Fusion series of APU’s  (CPU+(something else, usually GPU) on single die) and for that board to work with the Open Source Coreboot BIOS. This is my story. Disclaimer I am not a [...]

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Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/07/2011

'Star Wars: Episode I' – Obi-wan & Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul – A capella Multitrack Wits with Neil Gaiman, Adam Savage, and Gollum: "I Will Survive" Neil Gaiman, Author supports an #OnionPulitzer

GalepX Language settings in Linux

Bolster, not knowing German, twiddles with a universal programmer

Replace Unity with AWN and Gnome-Do

Unity Sucks, and I don’t like it. I prefer a combination of Avant Window Navigator, tilda, and Gnome-Do, to go from this to this Now, I haven’t kept track of all of the changes I’ve made to my configuration files, so YMMV, but gnome-do and Avant have remarkably good GUI configuration tools, so customise to [...]

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Removing BIOS RAID Metadata

Had an issue with Fedora 15 not liking my harddrives that used to be RAIDed. Noting for future reference. “Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets.” Solution: dmraid -r -E /dev/???? Stolen from Kezhong

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/06/2011

Social Network of Idiots II : Foamy The Squirrel Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned River Shiver – Pomplamoose Doctor Who: "Series 1-6" – Mega Marathon Trailer (HD) Bruno Mars – The Lazy Song [Official Alternate Version]

Change Kindle Network Provider

More a note for myself than anyone else. Stolen shamelessly from Marc Fletcher. In Settings, alt+e,alt+q, alt+q.

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Accidentally Proper Kindle PDF Document Conversion

I’ve discovered a strange undocumented* ‘feature’ of the Amazon Kindle document Delivery system. As it stands, if you send a document to username@free.kindle.com or @kindle.com, the document is sent onto your device at its convenience. Generally this is fine, but for most documents that people actually use (PDFs) this can be a pain as the [...]

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Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/05/2011

ANGRY BIRDS theme!!! covered by Pomplamoose (Cat's crash test) Краштест (Жесть и нереально!!)

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/04/2011

Internetic (Technologic Remix) The Animals – House of the Rising Sun (1964) High Definition [HD] Denis Leary – I'm An Asshole Brown Sugar-Rolling Stones