I’ve always been fascinated with radio and it’s many applications: from Rugby’s MSF time signal and long-wave broadcast radio, through HF amateur radio and VHF PMR, to television, wireless networks and satellite navigation systems. Yes, I’m a radio geek.
So it should be of no surprise that I take a keen interest in how our [...]
Today I got round to upgrading the Maemo build environment on my Debian home server from SDK 3.x to SDK 4.x, so that I could start building applications for my new N810 which is running ITOS 2008. And all I did was simply:
Backup the old source build area from within scratchbox so that I [...]
Colleague Phil Whitehouse responded to my last post with a posting on his blog where he airs his own views as to the barriers to widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop. Let’s just say that we disagree over a number of issues, and for the debate to continue back and forth would be perhaps [...]
Toward the end of 2007 it felt like a lot of ground had been won in the battle for Linux on the desktop. Ubuntu appeared to be experiencing exponential growth in popularity, the Linux powered Asus EeePC was a huge hit with almost universal appeal and the $200 Walmart Linux system was reportedly selling out [...]
And so I’ve spent the last two evenings trying to get Debian Etch (v4.0) fully running on a G4 iBook. Which has been largely successful and would have been pain free were it not for the ridiculous Broadcom wireless chipset the iBook employs. To summarise my experiences so far:
Debian Etch = wifi that can [...]
Just caught part of an interview on Radio 4 where Home Secretary Jacqui Smith outlined the government’s plans for the roll-out of national ID cards. So from the bits I caught it sounds like they are being introduced later this year for immigrant workers, in 2009 for people working at airports and as an opt-in [...]