http://john.pithed.org Adventures in Technology, Life, and Subdomain squatting Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:30:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The way Ubuntu handles media keys has been weird for a while now. Whenever I press them the volume either goes to 0 or 100 and the new notification system starts flickering. I disabled the notification system (which was otherwise really nice), but then the old volume notification system kicked ... http://john.pithed.org/2009/09/26/flight-sim-style-volume-control/ Well, one of the themes of this blog (like oh so many others) is long periods with no posts. Well, I finally resolved something I posted about long ago, and some additional followups, so instead of coming up with new ideas I'm going to rehash old ones. A while ago, I ... http://john.pithed.org/2009/09/15/bashpodder-on-the-ipod-touch/ Ok, today I went to the bank (Scotiabank, if you care to know) because I lost my debit card, and in the bank there was a poster hawking the new chip and pin debit and visa cards. There have been a lot of commercials by visa and the banks about ... http://john.pithed.org/2009/03/03/bank-rant/ Of late, I've been really enjoying the Linux Cranks podcast. It's got a very laid back progression that works great. Originally, they were putting it out in ogg and mp3, but at the beginning of the year, they proved how hardcore they were by going ogg only to deliver maximum ... http://john.pithed.org/2009/01/26/oh-ogg-you-tenacious-pup/ The other day I was talking to my dad in the car. He was mentioning some things that were currently broken on his SAAB. He then mentioned that among SAAB drivers, SAAB stands for Something Almost Always Broken. I thought this to be contradictory because I know he loves that ... http://john.pithed.org/2009/01/14/looking-back-at-a-year-with-linux/ Long time, no see, blog! I've been very busy with school the last 2 months or so. I'm about to go into exams, and I'll be busy throughout the Christmas holiday, so it'll probably be a very long time before another one appears. Suffice it to say I've been maintaining my manual ... http://john.pithed.org/2008/11/29/crash-and-burn/ Been a while, busy with life, whatever. First of all, I've reached a happy medium with the iPod touch, manually downloading the mp3's for my podcasts and listening to them with dTunes. However, my dreams have been realized, as there are now at least three podcatchers available through Cydia, but two ... http://john.pithed.org/2008/10/09/app-store-hates-canada-and-some-progress/ My hopes for a built-in podcatcher for the iPod touch is nearly realized. As I was scanning the Cydia package list I discovered two cool new things. The first is a Mobile Safari download plug-in that allows you to download many types of files. This makes the browser a lot more ... http://john.pithed.org/2008/09/14/but-wait-there-is-hope/ I'm finding myself more and more engrossed in the ongoing efforts to make the iPhone/iPod touch usable with Linux. As it stands, they can't mount via USB, and can't be synced over ssh under the 2.0 firmware. I know that I could easily revert the firmware on my ipod and ... http://john.pithed.org/2008/09/10/my-ipod-touch-efforts-have-stalled/ Once again, I had a post on the go but it wasn't very interesting, but now I definitely have a reason to blather. Through a complicated series of transactions, I find myself with a new ipod touch. This was pretty high on the list of things I wanted, because I love ... http://john.pithed.org/2008/09/04/finally-some-new-hardware/