I should mention, actually, that I’m working on Windows Mobile synchronization again. I bought a couple of old iPaqs off eBay, so now I can get synchronization of Windows Mobile 2003 and earlier devices working. Unfortunately, one of the iPaqs I bought - a 3850 - doesn’t seem to work, but the other one - […]
I really don’t know what it is about being a geek - systems just seem to multiply. I realized today that since I upgraded my HTPC, I actually had an entire system in parts lying around the house; the old motherboard and CPU from the HTPC, plus a hard disk that was no longer needed […]
Today I got a small box in the post containing an obsolete iPaq I bought off eBay for 50 bucks. I’m expecting another one next week. These are my Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 test devices, to allow me to get Mandriva’s WM2002/2003 sync support into line with the WM5+ support I already worked on […]
Today I was upgrading my HTPC, which turned into a predictably painful experience. I’m upgrading from an Athlon XP 2500+ to a Pentium D 2180, adding a spiffy GeForce 9600GT, and three 500GB hard disks to form a RAID5 array.
So I get all the stuff home and realize the motherboard I bought only has two […]
So, thanks to the fine work of the WebKit team - particularly the GTK+ port - Mandriva can now achieve 100/100 on the Acid3 web standards compliance test. I’d include a picture, but I’m not in a position to upload them right now.
Cooker users can test with webkit-0-0.32531.2mdv2009.0 and either use Midori (package ‘midori’) or […]
Following on from my last post - I cleaned up the Windows Mobile 5+ sync support even more, and tested that it works from a completely clean install of 2008 Spring. And then I made a video, and now I’m sending it to the world.
The video shows me installing the metapackage for WM5/6 […]
So somehow, last night and today, I’ve more or less dropped everything else and been working on making it *really easy* to use Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices connected via USB in 2008 Spring. Happily, I’m making a lot of progress.
This was the state of play as of a couple of days ago:
Nothing at […]
So as the Bugzilla mail piles up happily in my inbox (I’m glad it’s an electronic inbox, if it was a real one, it would have toppled over and caused me a serious head injury by now), I spent today doing…other things.
The What’s Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Wiki […]
Yep, the 2008 Spring pre-release cycle just hit the late beta…err, I mean, release candidate…stage. RC1 has lots of juicy stuff, including the new look for 2008 Spring (which is very pretty), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.1, some new default applications, the drakconnect / ndiswrapper bug finally fixed!, WPA-EAP support, new NVIDIA / ATI drivers, and […]
I decided today that I really hadn’t had enough crazy hardware hackery in my life lately.
I’ve been planning for a while to buy a new desktop, replacing the laptop I’ve been using as my only client system for the last year and a half. This was mainly due to a few irritants with the laptop:
one, […]