Category Archives: linux

Windows Default from Grub

Posted on May 12, 2011 by phh

Normally, GRUB 2 uses the first entry on the boot menu to start by default. This is fine since most of the time Ubuntu adds the latest version of the kernel to the top of the list. This choice is … Continue reading →

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Use Infocast Offline

Posted on April 18, 2011 by phh

Normally, the Insignia Infocast 3.5″ downloads its content including the main control panel from the Chumby server on the Internet. When everything is working fine that is the desirable way to use it. If you want to listen to the … Continue reading →

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A Kindle for $25 less?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by phh

Would you buy a Kindle reader if it included advertisements and was $25 less? Amazon is offering a version of the already low priced, $139 WiFi Kindle for $114. The “Kindle with Special Offers” version replaces the screen saver featuring … Continue reading →

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Use Wikipedia Offline

Posted on April 1, 2011 by phh

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is huge. The English version alone is currently at almost 3.6 million articles. One of the advantages of it being online is that no matter how big it is you can view the newest version of … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Wifi Radio

Posted on March 30, 2011 by phh

I find MightyOhm’s WiFi radio project really inspirational. It uses an Asus WL-520gu router, Arduino and a usb audio adapter to create a very low power consumption WiFi radio. It also makes use of small, yet powerful, open source software … Continue reading →

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Insignia Infocast 3.5

Posted on March 19, 2011 by phh

Best Buy USA finally gave me an opportunity to get a Chumby powered device very similar to the Chumby One. As with the WikiReader, I had noticed that Best Buy USA had started selling the Insignia Infocast 3.5″ and it … Continue reading →

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Splashtop OS from Grub2

Posted on February 25, 2011 by phh

I noticed recently that the folks at Splashtop (formerly DeviceVM) have released Splashtop OS. It appears to be a small, quick loading chrome web browser based operating system with flash support. I have a few ASUS motherboards that support Express … Continue reading →

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Enable Sure Electronics Driver in LCDproc

Posted on October 18, 2010 by phh

I purchased an LCDSmartie usb lcd display board from ebay to use with LCDproc and was relieved to find instructions for downloading LCDproc from cvs and enabling the driver here: http://lodge.glasgownet.com/2009/12/22/suresmartie-lcdproc/ See the above link for step by step instructions. … Continue reading →

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Python Gmail LCDproc Client

Posted on September 17, 2010 by phh

One of the LCDproc clients running on my wifi radio is a python script which grabs the atom feed from Gmail to find out if there are any unread messages in my inbox. LCDproc is a project that produces server … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Manual Project

Posted on April 29, 2010 by phh

Kudos to the Ubuntu Manual Project team. Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is a great introduction (refresher) to the newest version of Ubuntu. It has been translated to many languages and has been released with a creative commons license so … Continue reading →

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