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The wonders of ADSL

Posted on February 2, 2011 by tor

You just got to love the Asymmetric in ADSL. Working from home building a new B3 test kernel trying to debug the problems people are seeing with the Excito B3 crashing/dropping Internet connection. Doing this upload, ~100MB, completely saturates my … Continue reading →

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Faking referrers to spam logs

Posted on January 12, 2011 by tor

I just saw some really awkward entries in my web logs. A lot of entries that had bit.ly referrers. All these bit.ly entries pointed to more or less suspicious web sites. (And I deeply think that using URL shorteners is … Continue reading →

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Getting sound out of Stepmania

Posted on January 4, 2011 by tor

I migrated almost all my media consumption onto a Linux based, Ubuntu, Intel atom based Nettop with an Nvidia ION chipset a while ago. Previously i had tried a couple of media players, Popcorn hour and others, which where awful … Continue reading →

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Archos Internet Tablet

Posted on December 30, 2010 by tor

I have always been amazed on how interested my son has been of anything with buttons or displays. He can sit forever in front of the TV doodling with TuxPaint, playing simple flash games and so on. Earlier this autumn … Continue reading →

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NBRYFB

Posted on December 30, 2010 by tor

When I said to one of my friends that I where thinking about starting a  blog he answered,  NBRYFB “NoBody will Read Your F*cking Blog”. Maybe he’s right and maybe not. So why did I go ahead and start it … Continue reading →

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