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Last remnants of Palm finally dead

Last remnants of Palm finally dead

Ooo … Last remnants of Palm finally dead. Toldya so …!RIP webOS: HP kills off its mobile operating system, considers PC spin-off and Autonomy buy http://m.bgr.com/2011/08/18/rip-webos-hp-kills-off-its-mobile-operating-system/ This post was originally published publicly on Google+...

Cleaning Out My IBM Model M Keyboard

Cleaning Out My IBM Model M Keyboard

I received the 7/32″ x 75mm Nut Driver I ordered specifically to open up my IBM Model M Keyboard, so went ahead and started stripping it apart. There are 4 screws on the back...

Blast From The Past

My parents wedding (back in 1970) made it into the local papers and also the company newsletter … I found these in the house and decided to scan them for posterity. BOAC News, 4/6-71...

Adventures with Shared Libraries on Linux

Shared libraries (The equivalent of a dynamic link library in Windows) are bits of code which sit outside of a program, and can be shared by multiple programs simultaneously. Unlike a static library, which...

Alfa 156: New Foglights Installation

It’s been some time since an “alfa 156” post. Actually, it’s been some time since I’ve actually done much tinkering around with the car. A month or two back, someone was advertising a pair...

IPV6 and Malaysian Telcos

Totally clueless on this, just wondering if any of you have any answers: (1) As a UNIFI VIP (home) user, what do I need to do to access an IPV6 server on the internet?...

Lenovo G460: No sound on headphones

Symptom: On Ubuntu 10.10, plugging in headphones, and the sound continues to play from the internal speakers.  Fix: Append to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf: options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad So that’s one issue solved. Quite a nice keyboard on this...

Jaring UUCP: The end of an era …

Dear Customer, Auto-migration of UUCP-based e-mail service to new e-mail hosting service  In our continuous effort to enhance our services, we will be provisioning a new e-mail hosting service to replace the existing UUCP-based e-mail service....