Celestron Firmware Manager on Linux

To update the hand control or motor controller firmware on any of your Celestron mounts, you will need the Celestron Firmware Manager. The whole process is explained on this website. Long story short, you have to download the software here: http://software.celestron.com/updates/?dir=CFM/CFM After unzipping you end up with CFM.jar. To be able to run that you …

Fixing Steam on Linux OpenGL GLX warning

In some cases, Steam on Linux greets your with an error dialog stating: OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems This is because Steam ships copies of several system libraries which may interfere with other libraries on your system that it doesn't replace. This can easily be fixed. Just …

Linux on Netbooks at the Netbook World Summit in Paris

I'm just double-posting this here because not everybody is using Twitter *g*. This is an interesting interview of Aron Seigo (of KDE) and Arnaud Laprévote (Mandriva CTO) about Linux on Netbooks. Quite interesting..

The Palm Pre

Here's some useful user info about the recently landed Palm Pre, which I currently tend to buy when it arrives in europe. Mathew Garret also has a lenghty post about details from the recently leaked root image. Ah, not to forget, this is how to get into developer mode. Actually I'm prefering this gadget over …

KGo status updates

Having had no status update of KGo since quite some time, I'm going to fix that now. So what actually is KGo? As the name implies it is an implementation of the traditional Go (or Weiqi) game widely played in Japan an China. We are in luck that we already have a good free Go …

DVB-T on Linux

Being currently in France and kind of shut-off from the rest of the world due to a lack of TV or Radio I decided to hunt for a proper DVB-T Stick. DVB-T is a (or the) digital terrestrial television standard (the equivalent of ATSC in the US). The cool thing is that most of the …

New Amarok Insider

The Amarok Insider issue 13 was just released! Amarok 2 is making great steps towards a well-polished final release, I've been testing it from time to time (from SVN trunk) and it improved a lot over time. It is now mature and stable and looks nice too: A lot of users will appreciate that there …

When you’re in need of an alarm clock

start a Shell and type: sleep 8h; cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp Great to take a nap in front of your keyboard 🙂

Changing to zsh

Why should one want to change the shell, especially if one was used to using bash for ages? For curiosity, basically. After one week of usage (with trying a feature now and then) I migrated completly to zsh and it turned out to be worth it: It is fast! And I mean it is waaaaay …

Internet access for the paranoid

There are certain situations where you just want to be sure to access the web in a secure and anonymous way. Most people are aware of the Tor (onion router) project and it's software, there are plenty of tutorials in the web which help to get it up and running. There's nothing wrong about that, …