I unwrapped a HP ProCurve switched recently and this sticker was placed on the power socket: It comes with a normal IEC C14 power connector. It accept voltages from 100-127 V – 200-240V 50 and 60Hz. I have _no_ idea why anybody that buys a switch like this would needs instructions from a user-guide for read more
Category Archives: Grind My Gears
January 11, 2013 – 9:30 am
Gtk+-3.0 can be very very frustrating. I am trying to get a label to ellipsize, sounds simple enough, but it wraps……… It seems it is known for a long time: http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org/msg16648.html grr. Though the port makes a good speed.
How not to behave on irc
December 6, 2012 – 11:34 am
A guy comes in: 11:15:17 Erin | cant get a certain folder to show in mpd its driving me nuts Having not asked a question, having not read the topic, I joke: 11:16:09 @qball | You need the adress of a good doctor? He continues: 11:16:39 Erin | I could tell you what I don’t read more
Fixing broken package on debian
November 29, 2012 – 10:29 am
I got the following error message when installing gnu-radio: ?View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found. dpkg: error processing gnuradio (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 3 Errors were encountered while processing: gnuradio E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) While the read more
Sync’able offline ToDo list.
October 28, 2012 – 9:36 pm
I have been looking for a (very) long time now for a good todo list, I even wrote my own program(s) before. (gtodo, gtodo2 and more). I used google tasks for a while, but it has no decent desktop client (that does offline) and not a google written android application. I tried any-do (but it read more
Intel based laptop and the horror of multiple screens
September 12, 2012 – 9:59 am
My work laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410. Beside the fact that the audio output is possibly the worst I heard since the Commodore +4 ¹, it is a pretty decent laptop. But there are a few major problems with having multiple screens/beamers attached, each update of X+driver makes this worse. This card has 3 read more
Turbo Flame Lighter
August 29, 2012 – 9:30 pm
I got a turbo flame lighter a few years back: Recently it started to get problems, the ignition failed to spark. Today I opened it up, turned out the plastic inside the piezo ignition is broken, causing it to fail. The plastic is very thin and weak and will easily break on either impact or read more
GNOME3: The energy cost
June 8, 2012 – 10:02 am
I did a little bit of power profiling on my ubuntu laptop. I noticed that, when running gnome3, the videocard would get 60 interrupts each second. Comparing idle energy use of my openbox desktop and GNOME3 this resulted in a difference (on average) of 1.1 W. So, GNOME3 almost costs me 1 hour of battery read more
Ubuntu 12.04
May 6, 2012 – 8:09 pm
This is a ‘beg’ to the ubuntu people. Please fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/+bug/938379 bug. How can something that will close X and drop you back to the login manager be ‘medium’ priority.. I KNOW ubuntu is about unity now, but I like to get work done.. Both GNOME (gnome-shell eats up 100% and stays unresponsive for read more
Gnome3 weirdness
April 3, 2012 – 1:37 pm
I just had (this happend before, crappy intel drivers) had X go strange.. I rebooted my PC (normal reboot) now gnome-shell uses 100% cpu and hangs, empathy uses 100% cpu and hangs.. So just ‘randomly’ my desktop became completely un-usable. So back to the good old openbox+tint2.