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I was given a DVD collection containing the early films by Alfred Hitchcock for Christmas this year. The box set cover art included a very good two colour profile of the master of suspense, in other words, perfect for scanning, tracing and converting to SVG!
I made a nice desktop background, and also a bonus variant [...]

I have recently taken up soldering as a hobby. Most (if not all) of the software I use is free, and possible for me to modifiy if I so desire. Hardware, not so much. Well, I at least wanted a chance to try and modify and build stuff, so off I went and bought a [...]

I recently upgraded my router from the standard firmware to FreeWRT, a GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems. FreeWRT comes with a large selection of packages but is however a bit lacking in it’s selection of editors.
Prefering Emacs, I immediately set out to package GNU Zile (zile is lossy emacs).  Fortunately it’s really easy to [...]

When the packaging has obvious mistakes, like spelling “Serial ATA” as “Sevial ATA” and even managing the blunder of making “Made in China” into “Made in Chian“, this really shouldn’t come as surprise:
Thankfully I managed to unplug it before any other damage was done to the system. Burning electronics always smells like failure.

Listening to the soundtrack from Waking Life late at night.

I have yet to set up OpenVPN and making it work with NetworkManager (this is planned some time after I install FreeWRT on the router) so I have naturally been a bit hesitant to connect to unsecured wireless networks. It turns out there is an easy way to secure your connection with tools already installed, [...]

Just for the record. The cheap Bluetooth USB dongles being sold on Tradera (and I’m sure other places) seems to work perfectly with Linux 2.6.25 and BlueZ 3.30.

lsusb identifies it as “Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle”.