Windows Mobile syncing made easy

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 ...

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March 12, 2008

Meet the new stuff

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 ...

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March 3, 2008

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 “Serapia” released

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 ...

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March 1, 2008

Multiple external monitors, on a laptop, on Linux, with Tritton See2 USB video adapter / sisusb

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 ...

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February 6, 2008

Busy times and browsers

Some of you probably noticed I haven't been around as much as usual this week. Been doing some major furniture rearrangement here at Monkey Central, so now I have my own desk in a corner of the living room and my feet aren't being warmed by the rear vent of ...

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February 1, 2008

Lazyweb: Firefox option?

Lazyweb, O Lazyweb... Is there a Firefox option to disallow sites from resizing the browser window? I am finding more and more sites which resize my browser when I try and open them (usually sites with Flash), which I find *intensely* annoying. I want my browser window to be the size ...

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January 15, 2008

yak shaving time again

Working on old packages in Cooker always leads to interesting bouts of yak shaving. The latest goes like this... I'm working through the few remaining 2007.1-era packages in main. I got to libgfortran1 - an old major of libgfortran, which came from GCC 4.1.x. It's still around because some apps haven't ...

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January 7, 2008

A Mandriva Christmas present: latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers for Cooker, 2008 and 2007 Spring

Well, Anssi and I might not quite look like elves, but we act like them sometimes! Indeed, your Christmas present from Mandriva is the latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers packaged for all supported Mandriva distributions. Updated for the latest drivers (February 2008) and better instructions to avoid the DKMS bug. The latest ...

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December 27, 2007

Nokia 6300: de-branding, upgrading, Linux

So I just got a new phone. My contract with Fido was up, and I was just going to let it go and stick with my V360 till the Neo1973 is available in a really usable form, but my boyfriend decided he wanted a 6300 so I extended my contract ...

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December 19, 2007

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Alpha 1 “Barlia” released

Yep, the first alpha of 2008 Spring is out, with the latest KDE, GNOME, kernel and lots of other fun stuff. It's also unreasonably stable for a first alpha. One and Free editions are available (one of the last remaining problems in the 2008 release cycle was that we didn't ...

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December 14, 2007