geeks@box:~/blog$

Actually I can...

2009-06-28T03:01:00.001+01:00

I can add a blog entry title with contribute. It still sucks as a program though.

CONTRIBUTE SUCKS!!!

2009-06-28T02:58:00.002+01:00

Adobe Contribute is for losers! It absolutely sucks!!!!! For fuck sake I can't even add a fucking TITLE to my bloody blog post! Or can I...? You never know with the twisted UI of CONTRIBUTE!!! And anyway Google Chrome loads my pages faster, therefore, I can post to my blog faster with Google Chrome than with a specially designed Blogging tool. Contribute sucks!

Blog Entry dated 28/06/2009 02:53

2009-06-28T02:57:00.001+01:00

More RAM baby!

I just got 2 DDR2 sticks of RAM totalling 4GB (had 2GB previously), which adds up to a total of 6GB of RAM! way to go! It's true that I can run about a thousand apps simultaneously now. it's so cool! Plus the 64 bit versions of Crysis and Crysis Warhead can use 5.5GB if all other apps except the bare minimum stuff is open (windows XP; AVG; etc). The bottleneck now is my CPU. Gonna get a PhenomII at the end of the year provided I get enough money.

Anyway, that's it. PS. this post posted by Adobe Contribute CS4 (just testing it out, haven't used it before).

this sums up M$...

2009-06-14T16:28:00.000+01:00

Watch this to the very end.

Upgraded!

2009-06-07T13:14:00.002+01:00

Despite the fact that no one reads this I will post to say that my computer parts arrived ages ago. If any one does read this then I may post again to tell you what the new parts are like.

Upgrading my Computer

2009-05-17T13:09:00.003+01:00

I am going to buy some new computer parts today so my compter will now be a super fast machine (I guess that it will run 4 times as fast after the upgrade.)

So I guess you wan't me to tell you what I am going to get? Well here is the list:

Akasa 8cm Fan Filter - This ought to keep my PC clean
Nexus 80mm Silicon Absorber - And this ought to keep my PC quiet, I am going to be running the fans at 60% to 80% of there maximum speed to make it "super silent"
Xilence Red Wing 80mm Quiet Fan - These fans are made of really heavy plastic so it takes a while to start, but once it has started it will spin for ages, and it can cut your finger! They are quiet fans too so I will be having a noise revolution.
Akasa AK 965 (Socket 775) Aluminium with Copper Base Processor Cooler - This is a really cool (as in good and cold) processor cooler that I will be getting to keep my CPU at 30 degrees, or to over clock it with if I so wish in the future.
Akasa AK-MX004 High Performance thermal compound and TIM Clean fluid bundle - I will be using this to clean off the rubbish that you always find on the CPU's and cooler's that you are "supposed" to use instead of thermal compound. How ever I will not be using the thermal compound that it comes with........

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Thermal paste 3.5gram - ...........I will be using this, it is pretty much the best thermal compound that money can buy. I will probably keep the thermal compound from the bundle, even if I only use it for low-importance jobes, It is still very good, and it is made of silver.

And coming up for the big one.............

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) Socket 775 Wolfdale 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache - I will be getting this whopper of a processor for my computer! Even though it technically has .14GHz less than my Celeron D, it is much more efficient per a cycle and I will probbably have a quadropal performance boost!!!!!!!

Well I will post again when it has all arived/I have installed it.

Poll results

2009-05-11T11:32:00.001+01:00

the results for the "Which Linux distributions do you prefer:" Poll are:

bunut	5 (62%)
Linux Mint	1 (12%)
OpenSUSE	2 (25%)
RedHat/CentOS	1 (12%)
Fedora	1 (12%)
Knoppix	2 (25%)
PCLinuxOS	1 (12%)
Debian	3 (37%)
Mandriva	1 (12%)
Slackware	1 (12%)
Gentoo	2 (25%)
Puppy Linux	3 (37%)
Arch	2 (25%)
Other	3 (37%)

Too slow

2009-04-27T18:04:00.005+01:00

I have just decided that this blog is too slow and that that is a reason why I don't post on it so often so I am going ot do something about it such as decrease the length of posts shown.

I have also just installed 3 amazing Firefox addons they are:

Speed Dial - If you don't know what speed dial is then 1) Have a look at the Opera browser 2) don't come to this blog anymore as it is too techie for you (well maybe not, but almost every one knows what speed dial is)

iMacros - If you always need to log on to your Webmail or Blogger account every day (or even every week) which requires clicking on a link, typing in your user name and passwork and then clicking on your inbox, then this is the plugin for you. It can automate what ever you do in Firefox, just press the record button, go to your webmail address, type in your username and password, and click on your inbox, then hit the stop button. Next time all you need to do is click on the Macro and it will take you straight there! (It is actually quite fun to watch it zipping between pages doing what ever you told it to do) And if you do really want to do some coding they are text based and you can edit them at will.

AutoPager - Everyone uses google to search for stuff regualarily, but don't you just hate it when you have to scroll down the page a little and then click on the 'next' link and then wait for the page to load and scroll wond, click next, wait, etc? Well this plugin automatically adds the next page to the bottom of the page that you are vewing and then you can just keep on scrolling!

I have also found a really good gnome app called:
Gnome Do - As its name might imply, Gnome Do can do almost anything. Summon it up with Super + Space and then just start to type, as you do, Gnome Do displays the results it finds on your machine. The clever part is that these results can include almost anything. If you're searching for an application name, an icon will appear from which you can run it. Press Tab and the icon on the right is enabled, and from here you can press cursor down to list any other options for the same search result, you can also just type for the option. It's functionality is endless because it is expandable by plugins so if one of the plugins already there does not do what you wan't you can just make a new one! For instance the Microblogging plugin will let you add your typed search to your Twitter of Identi.ca account. This is by fare the quickest method to update your status from the Linux desktop.
I.E. You have to get it!

Ubuntu Reinstalled

2009-03-31T10:57:00.003+01:00

I have finally got round to reinstalling Ubuntu to my new WD 250GB SATA hdd, I think I have pretty much got all of my applications installed that I had before, and all of my files as i just had to copy them over from my old installation and I made copy's of /etc and lists of packages from dpkg.

I now have a fresh install of Ubuntu with Kbuntu and Ubuntu Studio extra packages, the only thing that is wrong is my Usplash displays normal ubuntu theme on start-up and kbuntu theme on shutdown, I want it all to be Ubuntu Studio! And my suspend works finally, but I still need to get hibernate to work. Once I have done that I have 2 new life CD's SystemRescueCD and Clonezilla, I have tried the former and I will use the second to back up my root partition after I have got all my apps and stuff finally working flawlessly, then I will use Time Vault or some versioning software to back up /home.

P.S. Please remind me to Post about my BIOS update that nearly went wrong!

Jaunty

2009-03-18T17:10:00.003Z

YESS!!!!! The new Ubuntu Jaunty is on my computer (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which is officially alpha, erm, 6, right now). Hey there are a few bugs but it's an alpha, it's actually much more stable than the alpha of Gutsy or even Hardy was. Although the name 'Hardy' really does suit that particular LTS release of Ubuntu. It is hardy to the most foolish of people, and is crash-able by only the people who want to crash it, like me. I kernel panicked it once, but only by deleting some major system file in the /boot folder! But the alpha of hardy? That was a different story: 1) open a gtk dialog. 2) click on the desktop. 3) click on the gtk dialog. 4) there is no 4. Reset button please. That's just one particularly awful bug I found in hardy alpha though.

Anyway, back to the original topic. Jaunty. Now don't get me wrong, I do like Ubuntu kinda, but lately the development has seemed to have, erm....hit something hard, and...fell over shall we say? yes there are things here and there like, um, new popups (those are a real improvement and kick windows's ass on that front btw), plus a new computer 'janitor' that cleans up junk on your computer. And it uses the ext4 file system, of course, which reduces fsck times by about a magnitude of 25 (if I got my estimates right, that is). But apart from things like that, things the general user wouldn't even notice if he/she wasn't a geek, things really do seem to have hit a plateau on the development front. I really haven't noticed many new features, so if it continues this trend I might consider switching to something with a faster development cycle. The trouble with them is that, with that there tends to be the fact that it's still quite a new and undeveloped distro, like gOS for instance (which is based on Ubuntu I believe).

On the KDE side, things are looking bad. Not bad, worse than that...erm...you can think of any word and it won't be quite bad enough to describe the badness of KDE4. It is UNUSABLE. UNUSABLE. Can't use it. I have reinstalled KDE4 three times, reinstalled my system once, then reinstalled KDE4 another time, and each time it has the same fault: it just won't work. I try launching a program and it freezes. why couldn't they stick with KDE3.5 for $&%@ sake? It worked and it was damn good. Sorry KDE guys, but I'ma stick with GNOME for the time being. KDE sucks big time.

On the windows side, things start to be getting better, bit by bit, slowly but surely recovering from the miserable days of Vista, the second worse windows distro (actually, make that the worst. I'd take win95 over vista any day :P). Yes, low-IQ person, I'm talking about windows 7 if you're wondering. I've installed the Beta of it on my machine and...well...things are at least a bit better than Vista. It's supposed to be faster than vista, haven't noticed that yet but I haven't been doing anything intensive on it apart from a few games of GRID (and that's not all that intensive even on max settings). From what I've seen of it, I wouldn't pick it over XP x64 though (which I use right now for anything that needs Windows).

Oh btw I had some hardware additions to my computer:
New harddisk. 750GB Samsung Spinpoint F1. One Windows XP partition, one Linux /home partition, one Linux root partition, one Linux swap partition. £70 inc. P&P
New GPU!!! nVidia 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 RAM PCI express x16 (duh). £100 inc. P&P

Is anyone here?

2009-01-27T18:54:00.001Z

Hi, i was just wondering if anybody was actually reading this? If so please make a comment and then i may put a few new posts up!

New computer

2009-01-04T18:59:00.000Z

I got all the parts for my computer and it runs like a dream now (well sorta, gonna upgrade the graphics card next month).

OK enough rambling, here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 2x3.1GHz 65nm 89Watt TDP
RAM: 2x1GB 800MHz DDR2 PC6400 Dual Channel
HDD: 250GB Maxtor SATA2
Chipset: nVidia nForce 520LE (yes i know it's crap, so shutup)
GPU: nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB PCI (Next month I'll upgrade to a nVidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB PCIe x16)
IDE DVDRW
IDE CDROM
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 420W
OS: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid x86_64

hey, my mouse pwns, linux only!

2008-12-08T19:08:00.003Z

My mouse (the logitech LX7 btw it's the only cordless that pwns), has 7 buttons. Ie. left click, right click, middle click, scroll, sideways scroll, back, forward. The sidways scroll works in Linux! It doesn't work in windows!!! So long windows suckers. I'm running ubuntu 8.10, and I didn't install any drivers to make it work fully. Linux works out of the box! In fact, my only hardware that didn't work out of the box is...let's see here....webcam worked...mouse worked...keyboard worked...sleep + hibernate worked...omg, EVERYTHING WORKED STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX FOR ME ON LINUX UBUNTU 8.10 INTREPID IBEX, 150% RECOMMENDED OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!! goto ubuntu.com to download this terrific OS. Or you can request a free cd that takes 6 to 10 weeks to deliver depending on country, the free cd comes with stickers for your computer or anything else.

ye man

2008-10-11T23:53:00.002+01:00

i bin offered 2 jobs makin websites, and already started one of dem........sum more cash for me soon :D!!!

an mi non profit home ed group website is at awe.gn.apc.org.

lots of stuff, read on...

2008-10-05T10:29:00.002+01:00

Sorry i haven't posted for AAAAAAAAAAGES.

Alot has happened computer wise and not computer-wise:

1) I've learn't lots of skills in web design (and still more to learn ;)). Using these skills, I've made a website using the drupal content management system, you can access my website here. It's for a home education group called AWE that I go to, (I'm home educated BTW), and please do not make an account on it because it'll just get wiped off. Strictly having an account is for AWE members only.

2) My spanish teacher had to leave for Colombia, which was very unfortunate. So I enrolled to do a GCSE spanish course in Hackney college, and got in (of course :P)!!!!!! Next year I'll have my first GCSE, in Spanish.

3) I'm techically dual booting Windows and Linux, so i've partly joined the other side....but you'll be pleased to know that i'm writing this in Linux, and only use my windows partition for: a) gaming, b) starry night, c) Flash, and d) Google Chrome until they make a Linux version. (great browser BTW)

see ya soon
fela

8.10 Coming soon

2008-10-02T08:59:00.003+01:00

I found that the Ubuntu countdown till 8.10 was not out yet so I have made a:
"Ubuntu 8.10 coming soon"
Image in gimp and uploaded it to picasa.

here it is

like it?

Linux magazines!!!!!!

2008-09-25T12:21:00.004+01:00

As there have not been a few posts for a while i decided to post on Linux magazine and Linux format.

After seeing Linux magazine in WHSmith I decided I had to buy it, I read through the whole issue and really liked it. A couple of issues on I found out about Linux format (LXF) I got given an issue by a friend and read it, I found it more enjoyable than Linux magazine, magazines are supposed to be interesting/fun aren't they? So I got one more Linux magazine and LXF and decided that I would get a subscription to not Linux magazine but... LXF! I would have got a subscription to both if I could afford it but I can't so by entertainment value I decided to go for LXF.

They are both GR8 magazines but I would go slightly more on the LXF side if I had to choose.

You Linux lovers out there should REALLY get a subscription to one of them as they are really good and it is much cheaper to get one then to buy it in the shop.

http://linux-mag.com/

http://linuxformat.co.uk/

Tiddles (my cat)

2008-09-02T09:45:00.000+01:00

Hey, i can't believe that I haven't done a post about Tiddles yet. I've had him for more than a year!!! OK, here goes, here's him as a kitten (btw he's still almost as cute as that!)

i think he's cutest here:

all curled up:

I don't actually have any pictures of him grown up, but he's the cutest cat in the world. (no really, i have not seen a cat cuter than him except a kitten)

Infinity Windows

2008-08-07T13:54:00.006+01:00

I have changed the image of the moment because it was not an image of the moment!!

Here it is:

It is supposed to be an animated GIF in the sidebar but blogger is a bit weird so you will have to click it!!

Ratings

2008-08-02T14:09:00.002+01:00

A week after putting the ratings back online we seem to have a farly good one, 4 star!

Ubuntu reinstall

2008-07-25T12:48:00.004+01:00

I have had various problems with my Ubuntu installation:

Deb package installer not working, add/remove not working, compiz not working, etc.

So i decided to reinstall Ubuntu completely...

I backed up my user Dir onto my new 4GB (W00T!!) mem stick then made a Ubuntu 8.04.1 disk and tested it thoroughly then reinstalled Ubuntu (forgetting to make a backup partition :-( oh well...) and then installed Ubuntu studio and some other apps and walla!! It worked!!!

Few!!!

The only problem i had is forgot to show the hidden files when copying my user Dir so i lost my Uplink user file that i had been playing on (Dow!! :-[ )

NRM

2008-07-20T22:38:00.002+01:00

me and mal are going to York in 12 days!!! we're going to the NRM (national railway museum), where Mallard is preserved.

Binary

2008-07-19T15:14:00.001+01:00

There are only 10 types of people in the world............

Those who understand binary and those who don't!!!

Announcing... The Victoria Line in Trainz!

2008-07-07T11:54:00.009+01:00

Victoria Line
A new project for Trainz
designed for cab view only.

Also, please remember "Spanner" has also created a Victoria Line route, so check out his version on the DLS.

Some tunnels at some kind of junction(?)

Train opens its doors at Victoria

Zooming into Victoria

Approaching Victoria

Switching to single track for a small section

The District Line connection at Victoria

a single tunnel

A station

The reversing sidings at Brixton

The buffer at Brixton

Another shot of the District Line connection

Through another station

Speeding into Brixton

Slowing down

Stopping.

Leaving.

Pimlico!

SPECIAL THANKS TO: everyone who made LU objects for trainz

Compiz

2008-06-23T16:04:00.002+01:00

my compiz is broken!!!!
GGGRRRRRRR
i *** this really annoying ****ing compiz!!!!
lol
but still GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Euro-Gin (lol)

2008-06-12T23:22:00.000+01:00

Me and Mal's latest interest (read: obsession) is trains...Mal just ordered two hornby eurostar power cars (well one's a dummy) from ebay for Â£16. Here's a video of it.

Mac vs PC

2008-06-10T13:48:00.001+01:00

And another:

Mac vs PC

2008-06-10T13:32:00.001+01:00

Heres a funny youtube video if you have not seen it yet:

Infinity windows!.... 2!!!

2008-06-06T18:21:00.000+01:00

Remind me to do Infinity windows!....

...2!!!

some time soon.

Linux hang?

2008-06-05T23:49:00.000+01:00

KDE on Linux hasn't hung on me once (not ONCE), for that i make this gimpy:

some gimpies

2008-06-05T23:43:00.000+01:00

cartoons of different OSes crashing, here they are:

gimp is a very good tool, i made those images with gimp. Hope you like 'em.

changed display name

2008-06-04T14:59:00.001+01:00

I've just changed my display name from rot13srynznfyra to Colonel Panic (fitting as i only run UNIX or UNIX-like OSes on all of my computers)...but my real names fela (as you should know)

cool KDE dynamic wallpaper

2008-06-04T14:41:00.001+01:00

I have a cool dynamic wallpaper that i use on KDE3.5: xplanet. It displays a picture of the earth over the longitude of where you live (presumably, as it's over the prime meridian on my one) and it gets dark and light according to the time of day (and the date of course), and when it's night, it shows the artificial light pollution.

turns out konqueror does have adblocking

2008-06-04T14:38:00.001+01:00

until now, i've faced the problem of no adblocking on konqueror (my personal browser preference), but after having a look in the preferences (aH...) i have found it, and after a quick google even found a adblock subscription service for konqueror :)

Update

2008-05-27T12:04:00.000+01:00

I just thought that i would post a random update to say that i was still here.

Back From SA

2008-05-17T11:10:00.002+01:00

I have arrived back form south Africa after approx 23 days of no PC interaction what so ever!
I suppose it is good for PC geeks to have a break now and again, we should not take every thing for granted. Any day soon there could be a thunder Storm that hits the power lines and you/my PC goes boom!!!

Any way the reason for my posting is that i came back yesterday night and have been on my PC all morning installing ubuntu 8.04, it is grate, but after the long troublesome installation all sorts of things stop working. GRRR! but i have fixed it and it is really COOL!
Thanks to Mal and fela who helped me earlier on, if they did not then i might not have been able to fix it.

hardy is GR8!!!! Try it!

Sorry for lack of posts lately

2008-05-10T11:15:00.001+01:00

I've switched* to KDE by the way. I used to bash it a bit, but I've grown to like it, and logs in way faster than gnome (haven't tested with compiz yet though)
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My main reason for posting was that I'm going to Spain in 3 days - by boat and train (I don't travel on planes as I am awake to climate change - that is also the reason that i don't leave my computer on when it's not in use (something that many people do and i honestly think is completely outrageously energy wasting.)
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* i haven't actually completely switched - i use pretty much all of the desktop environments/window managers (apart from very obscure WMs), including: Gnome2; Xfce4; KDE3; KDE4; Enlightenment 17, Fluxbox, JWM and XFWM (IIRC)

Away to SA...

2008-04-22T15:13:00.002+01:00

I will be going to SA (south Africa) for 3 weeks and 4 days and will probably not be able to post during that time (but i will try to send a update) but when i come back (on the 17 or 18 of may) i will be able to post again.

Till then Buy from me, LikesLinux :-D

P.S. you just have to play BZFlag, it is soooo fun and i captured the enemy's flag for the first time ever!

And...

2008-04-20T20:40:00.000+01:00

I am the proud owner of a Logitech LX7 Wireless 1000dpi 9-button mouse + Labtec Y-RAE68 wireless keyboard.

New Logitech WIRELESS keyboard and mouse!

2008-04-20T17:40:00.002+01:00

After fela insisted that i get a new mouse so i got a now wireless keyboard and mouse. I am now a proud owner of a Logitech^(r) Cordless Desktop^(r) EX110

W00T!

Hardy Heron Candidate Release

2008-04-18T18:06:00.000+01:00

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu
8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed "Hardy
Heron", 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the
latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,
easy-to-use Linux distribution.

BZFlag

2008-04-16T18:22:00.003+01:00

Battle Zone capture the Flag

BZFlag is a cool exiting multi player game to play online or over LAN.

You drive your tank around shooting opponents and helping friends.
You can collect flags to give you special abilities.
In a Capture the Flag game you try to protect your teams flag and capture your enemies flag

there is a whole lot else that i could tell you but i will leave you to fine out on there website

Monitor

2008-04-16T14:31:00.004+01:00

My monitor adaptor arrived last Wednesday and i got a cable for it last saturday (or was it friday?)
And now i can finally use my Ubuntu PC!!! W00T!

Here are the (basic) specs:

VirtualBox

2008-04-14T08:58:00.000+01:00

I just upgraded to hardy beta a few days ago (when my harddisk came), and now i use linux-generic (the only kernel compatible with virtualbox). Before i was running VMware server for my virtualization, and i'm telling you, virtualbox-ose (open source edition) just rocks. VMWare sucks if compared.

I am typing this under a windows VM in virtualbox, running Windows XP specialized for ultra portable computers (i also have the main, more sucky one, in another virtual machine).

With VMWare Server, it was noticeably slower virtualizing than running a system natively. With VBox, you hardly notice the difference.

My current virtual machines go as follows:
1) Damn Small Linux
2) Fedora Core 8
3) Fluxbuntu 7.10
4) gOS Rocket beta
5) Windows XP ~~specialized~~ hacked for ultraportables
6) Windows XP

And PS. I DO NOT work for Innotek. I am speaking of my own experience.

ubuntu hardy beta - 3 installs in one morning

2008-04-10T23:02:00.000+01:00

The HDD came w0.ot :D

I put Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy LTS Beta onto it. That's what i'm running now. Oh and btw, there seems to be a little bug in the partitioner of the hardy beta installer - i tried partitioning keeping a older partition intact (result of breaking my system within 5 minutes and having to reinstall xD). It seemed to install fine, but when i tried booting into the system my machine kernel panicked just after the 'Starting up' message. I think it was trying to load / as a block device - and obviously failing - I can't remember exactly what it said though, after 'Kernel panic - not syncing:'. One more reinstall later (that's 3 clean installs in one morning lol) and here I am - with a perfectly functioning install of Ubuntu Hardy beta on a 160GB HDD - yay! :D

HDD upgrade

2008-04-08T12:24:00.002+01:00

OK I've finally gotten round to getting a new HDD for my Linux box...it should be coming next Tuesday (15 april 2008) at the very latest (it's already been dispatched). Here's the specs:

Western Digital Caviar
160GB
8MB cache
ATA 100
8.9ms average seek time
2ms track-to-track seek time
7200 RPM
rated 50,000 Start / Stop Cycles
3.5" form factor
3 year warranty

I would've got Serial-ATA, but my motherboard's way too stone-age for that...the good news is: it cost me £35 with VAT+postage. Yippee! :) i would really reccomend the seller (novatech.co.uk) for it's low prices.

windows 7

2008-04-07T22:09:00.000+01:00

apparently Microsoft are gonna do what Apple did 7 years back, for windows 7. They're gonna make everything incompatible, hopefully for the best, like what Apple did when they released OS X. READ THIS for more info.

binary blobs

2008-04-07T21:59:00.000+01:00

apparently, GNU have said that Linux is a breach of the terms of the GNU General Public License, by far the most popular license for open source software. The reason is that Linux includes 'binary blobs': drivers and whatnot for hardware, namely video cards, that the source code isn't freely available to view, study, modify and redistribute of, as the GPL states it should be. But the companies that provide these closed source drivers are NOT willing to release the source code (read: don't give a sh!t about linux). This causes a dillemma: either we have closed source drivers and breach the true open source spirit, or we stick to open source software, at a price (e.g no hardware video acceleration). It's a choice that us Linux users have to make.

animation

2008-03-28T18:53:00.002Z

me and Mal made a kick ass lego animation today, called 'cross country lego'. Should be up on youtube within 24 hours :)

EDIT:
ok it's finally up on youtube, here it is...

Powered by Ubuntu stickers!

2008-03-27T11:11:00.004Z

I sent of a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) only two days ago to system76 for some free "powered by Ubuntu" stickers and they arrived today!

Here is a scan of them:If you would like to get your own "powered by Ubuntu" stickers send a SASE to:

The Linux Emporium
Bridge House
17a Maybrook Road
Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham
B76 1AL UK

or go to system76 for other countries

I EATEZ BRAINZ

2008-03-20T12:53:00.000Z

arggggghhhhhhhh!!!

GEEK Test

2008-03-18T12:41:00.002Z

I was on the GEEK Test getting 100% as usual when i found the following:

Of the Computer Geek Quiz Takers:
17% are scared of links
17% of Windows users curse it
4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero

LOL!

Ubuntu PC

2008-03-17T10:03:00.006Z

I have been borrowing the monitor from our home XP so that i can try out my Ubuntu PC and check that my ram works. while i was at it i found out that my Celeron D was actually 3.2 GHz not 2.2 GHz. Celeron D is definitely a big improvement to the old Celerons.

And while i was at this post i found out that you can get Celeron dual core!

Open Movie Editor

2008-03-13T10:23:00.000Z

Open Movie Editor is a pretty self explanatory, open source movie editor. You can get it here (http://www.openmovieeditor.org/). I tried compiling/installing it from source last night, managed to get it installed after compiling a few dependencies, then when I tried to execute it it gave me an error, some shared library missing or something, that should've been installed with one of the dependencies. So, unless you know what that problem could be and know how to fix it, If you're on Ubuntu if you want to get it installed quickly and easily then just type: sudo aptitude install openmovieeditor in a terminal to install it. It's also in Debian and OpenSUSE repositories.

Right now OME is only available for Linux, the developers are looking for people to port it to OS X and possibly Windows (the only reason there's no OS X version is that the developer doesn't have access to an Apple Mac :S). I guess porting to OS X would be easier than windows as OS X is pretty similar to Linux anyway, at it's core.

New Human theme

2008-03-09T12:26:00.000Z

I'm testing Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" alpha 6, and I've noticed that the default Human theme has vastly improved. Here's a screenshot of thewidgetfactory: (and btw, the progress bars are animated :))

GTK hack (mac-menubar)

2008-03-01T21:33:00.000Z

I hacked my GTK to have a mac-menu applet that places the menu bar on the main gnome panel like Mac OS X (I did this for two reasons: I find it easier, as I used OS X before Ubuntu and not Windows; and I want as little as possible resembling windows on my Ubuntu installation ;P). You can follow the guide yourself if you want. Be very careful and don't miss a step (unless you know what you're doing) as it could mean fucking Gnome up ('scuse my french ;P). I used apt-build; you could try compiling it yourself without such an automated tool, but don't say I didn't warn you (E: Corrupt dependencies; please install lib-with-100-dependencies etc....) I used apt-build cause even though it compiles the thing, not install from binary, it's incredibly automated and easy to use. (although i wouldn't reccomend hacking your gtk for the average joe computer user..) and BTW as of time of writing, this hack won't work with OpenOffice.org apps and Firefox/Thunderbird. (as in, the apps will still work, just with the menu bars in the same place as usual).

OK I couldn't resist uploading a screenshot (yeh yeh, taking ur bandwidth :P lol):

Do you notice that the menu bar is at the top like OS X? Pretty cool, huh? ;)

WINE

2008-03-01T21:08:00.003Z

I am using WINE to run some Windows apps under Linux, and some of them run surprisingly well. Cut to the screenshots, first we have Macromedia Flash 8 (Adobe Flash CS3 doesn't like WINE):

Adobe Audition also works surprisingly well:

I also have Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 working under WINE aswell.
In both of those screenshots, you saw Windows apps running seamlessly under a Linux Ubuntu installation, without the need to run Windows in the background while making it look seamless. Goto winehq.org for more info, download, etc.

Ubuntu PC!!!!!

2008-02-26T17:10:00.002Z

My Ubuntu PC is now working but i can't tell you anything yet because it is not connected to the Internet and dose not have a monitor, and so can't send posts from it.

My notebook

2008-02-25T17:59:00.003Z

I got a notebook as a birthday present.
It is a Toshiba with 128Mb ram(OK if you only run one app at a time), 18G hard drive, CD/DVD, and floppy. Running XP Pro.

BUT:
I can't install Ubuntu on it AND i can't connect it to the Internet! (well i can at JD's house but not at mine)

So the two most important things i can't do!

GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR I HATE PC'S GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRR

well they aren't so bad so long as they aren't MY notebook!

Compiz

2008-02-19T10:44:00.002Z

I've had compiz disabled for a while now, due to the fact that I run Source games under WINE.

However, It's becoming rather irresistible now, especially with the widgets layer.

*drools*

1337

2008-02-17T13:37:00.001Z

73h 71m3 1s 1337!!1!!1! 10L

Amazing origami models

2008-02-17T13:34:00.001Z

Found this site stumbling and I thought I might share it with the rest of the blogosphere.

New: graphics card + screen

2008-02-15T12:45:00.001Z

A few days ago my screen came in the post, and yesterday the graphics card came aswell. (see post below). Until now I haven't been able to use Compiz Fusion special effects (opencompositing.org or compiz-fusion.org), as my old graphics card was a nVidia Vanta with 16MB RAM (!). Here is a screenshot of me running the desktop cube and fire (compiz fusion plugins):

Running DSL in a VM...

2008-02-09T23:42:00.000Z

DSL stands for Damn Small Linux and is a Linux distro with a GUI that fits in roughly 50MB. Thought I might share this screen shot of me running it in vmware server:

VMware: Hardy Alpha 4

2008-02-08T23:04:00.000Z

I just compiled VMware server and have done a quick test of the latest build of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy". Here are the inevitable screenshots:

^ The default desktop. The theme looks like it's still an embryo in development.

^ Add/remove, the more user-friendly version of synaptic

^doesn't include Firefox 3 beta yet, but give an alpha a chance!

^ Two new GUI apps: top one is GParted, a partition manager tool. Bottom one is Seahorse, a Keyring/Password manager that so totally smacks of Apple's Keychain Access utility. UPDATE 9/2/08: according to Mal, Gparted is a standard LiveCD app that doesn't get installed on a standard HDD install (not new in hardy). Credit goes to Mal for informing me.

This is just an alpha, and I can already see quite a few new stuff just from a five minute test. I'm sure when Hardy comes out in April it will be a swell upgrade.

MalFela Supertux world

2008-02-08T20:13:00.002Z

MalFela Supertux world
beta version

We've been working on a SuperTux level for a while now.
With both levels from me, Mal, and srynznfyra (fela),
this worldmap is getting pretty big.

With creative solutions to problems:

Nice-looking design:

And much, much more.

EnemyFactory is not compatible with supertux 0.3.1.
Please use the 0.3.1 archive if you plan
to use this with 0.3.1.

Download:
0.3.0 Package: 0.3.0-supertuxworld
0.3.1 Package: 0.3.1-supertuxworld

My screen came, except...

2008-02-07T08:36:00.000Z

Yeah, the 19" Samsung Syncmaster 920NW widescreen came yesterday, but until it gets replaced by a GeForce FX5200 128MB (which should be coming very soon), the nVidia Vanta 16MB in my linux box is going to have a hard time driving it! That's right, my graphics card is using all the same drivers etc. as before, it's just that it doesn't like screens as big as mine. It works fine, just the graphics is a bit slow.

My webcam specs

2008-02-04T22:15:00.000Z

Here are the specs of my Pico iMage webcam that i can think of off the top of my head:

640x480px;
USB 2.0;
Officially supports Mac OS X and Windows;

I might fix this post some time in the near future to include stuff like refresh rate and advanced things like that.

My web cam! Few

2008-02-04T18:19:00.000Z

As a birthday gift i got a web cam:

Here are the specks:

Image Sensor:	1/7" color progressive CMOS, 352 x 288 pixels 10 bit RGB raw data.
Sensitivity:	15 Lux @ 7.5 fps
Lens Specification:	F2.4, f=2.9 mm, view angle 52^o
White Balance:	Auto
Exposure:	Auto
Frame Rate:	320 x 240 pixels @ 30fps 160 x 120 pixels @ 30fps
Focus Range:	Manual focus, 1cm to infinity
Depth of Field:	50cm to infinity
PC Interface:	USB 1.1

Video Format:	AVI

Video Capture Res.:	320x240/ 160x120 pixels

Snapshot:	Hardware

Still Capture Res.:	Up to 320 x 240 pixels
Flicker Control:	50Hz, 60Hz
Power:	From USB port
Bundled Software:	Ark Soft VideoImpression 2.0

B-Day

2008-02-04T15:06:00.000Z

It was my birthday yesterday and this is what i got:

USB Microscope up to 1280x magnification;
1GB RAM for my Ubuntu PC (so that now I have 1.1GB or 1152MB RAM in it :));
Snakehead (the seventh Alex Rider book developed by Anthony Horowitz);
£90;
DVD (can't remember what);
Chocolate thingy saying Happy Birthday;
A tent;
A backpack that you fill with water (called a 'bladder');

I've also ordered for myself (partly with the £90):

Samsung Syncmaster 920NW 19" Widescreen 16:10, up to 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB PCI Graphics card w/ DVI, VGA, S-Video out;

I'm very happy about the screen and the graphics card, those right now are probably the lowest spec things in my Ubuntu PC (apart from maybe the Intel P4 1.8GHz, i hate to say).

14" CRT 1024x768 @ 60Hz ==>> 19" LCD 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Vanta w/ VGA 16MB ==>> nVidia Geforce w/ DVI+VGA+SVideo 128MB;

the first ones are the specs i have now, the second are the ones i'm upgrading to.

Hopefully sometime in the near future i should also upgrade my CPU (as it's upgradeable, i have a Compaq Evo D500 Small Form Factor), and the 20GB HDD. Then it would basically be a new computer! so far (as in when the graphics card comes) it's new/upgraded:

RAM;
Graphics;
CD-ROM (upgraded to DVD+-RW DL);
USB 2.0 card;
OS (from Windows to Ubuntu, i consider that an upgrade ;))

The GIMP

2008-01-27T19:49:00.000Z

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a open source program for image editing that rivalls Adobe Photoshop in features. If you are thinking of getting Photoshop®, I suggest that you try the GIMP first, as it's totally free (and you can get the source code if you want to help develop it). If you want to run the GIMP under OS X, you will have to install Apple's X11 (if not already installed). You can do this from the system disk that came with your Mac. (or PC if you hackintoshed ;D). Download page is here.

The other Adobe program that there is a very popular open source alternative for is Adobe Illustrator. The alternative is Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/), which I have found to be in a way better than Illustrator (the version that I use is CS3), as when I opened an image that was 4707x4000 px in Illustrator it just wouldn't open, whereas in Inkscape the same image would work just fine on my PowerMac G5 2.5GB SDRAM. Both the GIMP and Inkscape are multiplatform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), and other UNIXes such as FreeBSD, and of course the source code tarball is available.

Free commercial software

2008-01-15T11:31:00.000Z

Found this in my computer magazine today:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Probably some neat stuff available.

Open source always has the original ideas

2008-01-13T17:57:00.000Z

Apple is so, so totally ripping off open source stuff. For instance, compare the new features of Safari 3 with Firefox 2: 1) Rip off tabs. Firefox has had them for a while. 2) Web inspector: Firefox has a very popular extension called Firebug, and the new Safari web inspector is so totally ripped off straight from Firebug, with a nice iTunesy GUI. 3) Restore previous session. I believe Firefox 1 had this, and Firefox 2+ definitely has it. So totally ripped off. In fact I think apple is very into open source, as you can see: 1) The Mac OS X kernel, Darwin, is open source. You can get the source code straight from apple. 2) Mac OS X uses OpenGL graphics software, which is self-explanatarily open source. 3) The apple developing software, XCode, uses GCC C compiler for compiling (which I believe is developed by GNU and is open source). 4) Mac OS X's shell is GNU Bash, and alot of other GNU tools come with OS X, such as: nano; emacs; and a few others. So to a certain extent, Apple is incorporating open source into their own software, and also incorporate features into their proprietary software that were originally in open source projects a long time ago. See what I mean? Open source always has the original ideas. But when you take microsoft into the argument, apple suddenly seem like the open source people. Microsoft, undoubtedly, rips off apple and that doesn't even need any examples, work them out yourself. So you can think of it as a kind of chain: first open source projects such as firefox develop the original ideas; then apple rips them off; then M$ rip off apple. Now that's what I call third rate, literally. Hooray for open source!!! And fuck M$.

Funny MS stuff

2008-01-09T21:36:00.000Z

MS make a real fool of themselves sometimes. Here, have a look.

Swear words.

2008-01-08T11:05:00.000Z

I have NEVER, NEVER EVER seen why the word 'f*ck' isn't as bad as 'fuck', and get very annoyed when people use it on forums to avoid 'swearing'.

Portal anomalies

2008-01-07T15:09:00.000Z

Here are some weird and/or interesting things I've found in Portal:

Chamber 19:

1. The energy ball that blocks your way to the fire-pit. It's green.
2. The large fans you have to portal behind after the fire-pit. Pick up a barrel and throw it in. The fan breaks.
3. A load of things glow that probably shouldn't - look at the Aperture logo on the GLaDOS speakers. It glows.

All chambers:

1. noclip into some of the observation rooms. Blue doors.
2. Objects can get carried to the next level. Noclip into the elevator room at the end of chamber 17, portal placement never fail, and shoot the wall next to the emancipation grid. then go to the start where the companion cube is, and fire the opposite colour portal. put the WCC through and go in yourself. Proceed to level 18 with the cube!!

This post was vandalized on 07 January. Changes were revoked same day. Vandalism will get you denoted.

Hard flash game

2008-01-04T20:55:00.000Z

The only way I can make any progress in this game (click the tux to play) is to use my graphics tablet, it's too hard even with my 1000dpi Logitech LX7!

ISP

2008-01-04T16:57:00.000Z

Our home hub went down and i was off line for a while but we got it fixed it (finally) and i am back online now

Cool animation

2008-01-03T09:34:00.000Z

I made this animation using my Pico iMage webcam; a tripod; Photo booth; Final Cut Pro; my PowerMacG5; and a few toys. Hope you like it!

P2P

2008-01-01T01:21:00.000Z

P2P file sharing goes fast in the middle of the night. Right now (1:20AM) it's going in the 500s KB/s for 2 files! :)

Happy new year!

2008-01-01T00:27:00.000Z

Happy new year everybody and I hope you have a wonderfully geeky 2008.

Mac4Lin: ditched

2007-12-31T20:26:00.000Z

A few days ago I decided I didn't want all the leopard-lookalike stuff on my linux box, just a nice ubuntu look. The main reasons were: (1) that it created gtk errors for EVERY app, and (2) it also used a hell of alot of RAM. I also thought, 'why would I want to make Gnome look like a propietary GUI?'. What I ended up doing is just having preset icons/themes and stuff, then hacking it a little. Right now I have Human icons, Clearlooks window border (with default blue color), and Glossy controls. I hacked icons like the rhythmbox tray icon (I actually got that icon of gnome-look) and the computer icon (I bodged that together in GIMP). Here is an overview of my desktop, grey-propietary-leopard-look free (I got the wallpaper from interfaceLIFT):

...

2007-12-29T13:20:00.001Z

The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie

OMG PRESENTS

2007-12-29T13:14:00.000Z

List of presents:

The Orange Box
USB Missile Launcher
Milk Chocolate Computer, Keyboard and Mouse (!)
Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze (book)
Shed Scientist (book)
...more books

Ultratasking with 2.5GB RAM

2007-12-29T12:24:00.000Z

Here's me running way, way too many apps, and it shows (although not in system performance :p)!

This is what I'm running:
Fission
iTunes
Chess
60 or so Finder windows
GIMP under X11
Google Earth
Stickies
BitTyrant
Bittorrent
BrainVoyager
Mail
Camino
Chess
Calculator
Frozen Bubble
Tidy Up!
iMage Tester for image webcam
System Preferences
DVD Player
iCal
Automator
QuickKeys
Address Book
Adium
Audio Hijack Pro
Audio Hijack
CyTV Server
Dashboard
Deeper
Dictionary
DMGConverter
EyeTV
Final Cut Express
Flickr Uploadr
Font Book
Front Row
GifBuilder
GoodPage
Hex Fiend
HierarchicalDock
iChat
Image Capture
iPodDisk
iShowU
iSync
Jing
JollysFastVNC
LingTreeConstructor
Logic Express
Mathematica 5
Microsoft Autoupdate
Microsoft Messenger
MidiKeys
MyTV/x
Photo Booth
PopChar
Preview
Q
Quick-O
QuickTime Player
RealPlayer
RecordPad
Safari
Say Something
Script Editor
SiteSucker
Spaces
Mount two DMGs
TechTool Pro 4
TextEdit
Time Machine
ToolPlayer
Vine Server
Vine Viewer
VLC
Wallsaver
Yahoo! Messenger

That was everything in my applications folder except stuff that are in folders (which is a shame as I have the Microsoft Office 2004 suite and the Adobe CS suite, all in folders). That's why I have so many finder windows open anyway. Here's what my dock looked like (although I might of quitted a few apps by then):

I did all this using 2.5GB RAM, and I can prove it:

Christmas: overview

2007-12-28T21:54:00.000Z

Here's a list of all the stuff I got for Christmas and Hannukah:
Christmas:
1) iMage USB Webcam
2) Acecad (whatever that is) Graphics Tablet
3) Really (as in REALLY) comfy cusion/pillow/bean bag kinda thing
4) Two books that I cannot be bothered to repeat the names of
5) 2GB RAM (so I now have 2.5GB RAM in my PowerMacG5 w00t)
6) Really (as in REALLY) comfy/warm/c00l leather jacket
7) Massive Calendar showing images of the earth that look so hi-res they might aswell be vector graphics!
8) T-shirt with a picture of a COMPUTER (from my 6-year-old sister)
9) Moon phase calendar
10) Kit to make a paper model of the celestial sphere
11) Fountain pen
12) Pen to check counterfeit banknotes
13) A ton of chocolate and other gack (including a packet of chocolate raisins from myself)
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And if you want to know what I got for hannukah, look down about 10 posts or so!

More RAM finally...

2007-12-28T20:38:00.000Z

I just installed my new RAM, and now have 2.5GB of RAM in my PowerMacG5!!! I also got a cool graphics tablet!

Postal Service

2007-12-25T22:21:00.000Z

The UK postal service ('Royal Mail') is so rubbish. I'm expecting 2gig RAM in the post and they don't even work on Christmas OR Boxing Day. So the RAM should be coming on the 27th or maybe even the 28th!!! THAT IS NOT GOOD, I NEED IT NOW.

Cool screensaver on ubuntu

2007-12-25T17:06:00.000Z

There's a really cool screensaver called Helios that comes with the Gnome based ubuntu distribution. If you use ubuntu, try it out!

More template crap

2007-12-24T14:41:00.000Z

Blogger f*cked our template, so here's the new one. It's s bit rough around the edges right now.

Stable web browser for GNU/Linux

2007-12-23T15:47:00.000Z

Firefox is the web browser that comes on nearly all GNU/Linux distros, and often is the sole one (i.e. there is no other preinstalled web browser). But the truth is, firefox under GNU/Linux is still very buggy, and I reckon it should be considered a beta. But GNU/Linux users: don't dispair! There are two other web browsers that aren't so buggy (and alot more if you use google 8-0); namely Epiphany and Konqueror. Konqueror comes with KDE as part of the package, so if you use KDE and haven't tried out Konqueror for web browsing, give it a go. I can tell you it's one of the best out there. For GNOME users, try out epiphany (most users will have to download and install the package as it doesn't come with many (if not any) GNOME distros). Epiphany is very stable, but it's not nearly as feature rich as Firefox. Use epiphany if you want a good, stable web browser that doesn't crash all too often (in fact I am typing this under epiphany right now ;D), but isn't too feature rich either. Both Epiphany and Konqueror run on either platform (GNOME or KDE) but generally, Konqueror will run better on KDE and Epiphany will run better on GNOME (that goes for lot's of other apps too). For Xfce/Fluxbox/[insert obscure desktop environment here] users, you probably know what you're doing! ;)

GUI's GUI's and more GUI's

2007-12-22T19:31:00.000Z

GUI's ("gooies" Graphical User Interfaces) are what almost everybody uses to operate a PC.

But they aren’t all good...

Windows Xp made a real good improvement to the old grey look but it is still not so cool.

When Vista Aero came out you could see that they had been working hard at it, a really cool GUI that was easy to use and navigate with, apparently you could find all your files and folders at the touch of a button or so.
But there is one big disadvantage to it, very big.
IT TAKES 1G OF RAM JUST FOR THE GUI!!!!!!.

That is why I would go for the Mac GUI that is even easer to navigate with and is slick and smooth, only takes 64mb (tiger and below) of ram and is well easy to use and cool (compared to windows xp) .

But wait...
There is another better option...
UBUNTU
see this video:

And Ubuntu Beryl has a skin that looks and feels a lot like Vista Aero all in 512mb (But it works better with 1G) ram!

So what do you think Pls post your comments 8-)

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Edit:
1. Theguywholikeselectronicsandlinux
2. Theguywholikeselectronicsandlinux

RAM from ebay

2007-12-22T13:05:00.000Z

A few weeks ago we bought 2GB of RAM for my PowerMac G5 (PMG5) from ebay. It was high density RAM, and the PMG5 that I have doesn't support that. We sold it again to some other willing customer on ebay. Now that we have our £400 christmas money (look down a few posts), we finally have enough to get some more, low density, more expensive RAM, and we've ordered it already. So in a few days I should have 2.5GB of RAM in my dual processor 64-bit PowerPC G5 PowerMac! :) It'll be smokin'!!! Once I get the RAM i might do a little benchmark test, kinda like opening four emulated x86 architechture virtual machines, while editing a Final Cut movie, umm... yeah, maybe Google Earth aswell! Or what I could have is a GB each for 2 virtual machines, and 512MB for everything else, that'a be c00l! What'ya do with 2.5G ram eh?

More RAM, seriously

2007-12-21T11:00:00.000Z

I (well, my family) just got £400 for christmas so we'll be getting a new amp and speakers, and I'll be getting more RAM for my GNU/Linux PC, and the PMG5 aswell hopefully.

A little app

2007-12-17T21:22:00.001Z

Here's a little app that I made as a joke.

iLife '08

2007-12-16T12:34:00.000Z

Soon I'll be getting iLife '08 for free, and hope to do some kind of web developing with the tools that it provides (like iWeb). I've never actually used the iLife programs, and I'd like to try out iMovie as well as stuff like GarageBand.

logitech LX7 linux driver

2007-12-15T19:18:00.000Z

I'm using a Logitech LX7 cordless optical mouse under linux ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22. The default mouse driver that X uses doesn't support 5 button mice (which is what I have). I have gone fiddling with the xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11, completely corrupted X, and am now typing this under the command line interface using lynx. Does anyone know of any linux 5 button mouse drivers that you can use without completely p***ing X off? I am f***ed off with this sh!t. Someone must of written a stupid, FREAKING DRIVER. Thanks in advance to anyone who even posts a comment.

Template

2007-12-13T13:43:00.000Z

I'm cleaning up the template a bit - no huge BETA, no extra RSS in the sidebar... and a new picture of the moment widget.

Do we have a rubbish template?

2007-12-11T21:58:00.000Z

I think our template is great, don't you? Well even if you don't like it, leave feedback! Oh, and if you want to use edit-mode, Just click here!

ZOMG!1 HAXORD FEEDS on an iPhone

2007-12-10T20:30:00.000Z

Apple's iPhone uses reader.mac.com to view RSS feeds. if you visit reader.mac.com with your average computer, you'll get a message about you not being on an iPhone.

I worked around this limitation*.

http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http://malfela.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Now, if anyone can make some sort of script (greasemonkey?) to make this formatting readable, I'd be very interested.

* spoof your user-agent to Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone, U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3 - There's a firefox extension available.