billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: November 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Watching file fails in kghostview? I got very annoyed with a bug in kghostview. So typically I am writing a paper or slides in LaTeX and running something like. Latex mypaper; dvipdf mypaper. As a quick fix I do something like. Latex mypaper; dvipdf mypaper temp.pdf; mv -u -f temp.pdf mypaper.pdf. If I knew where to set it I could change the interval kghostview waits before checking the file. Links to this post.
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: April 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Friday, April 21, 2006. Line to microphone input. While in India we had been recording talks by Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both with a mini-disk recorder and a video camera. To transfer these to our laptop for editing with Audacity. We had a problem. The Philips X51. Now back home I could have been more sophisticated, and if you have to solve a similar problem I suggest you consult this helpful page. Posted by Billlion at 5:37 AM. A very nice sal...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: July 2007
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Saturday, July 21, 2007. Technika SH-Z265 6M pixel digital Camera. SH-Z265 6M pixel digital Camera, about 65 from Tesco. Posted by Billlion at 3:35 AM. Links to this post. View my complete profile. Mathematics under the microscope. My wife Sarah's yoga website. Shallow Light waterproof LED torch/flashlight te. Chronoverter: your own MSF time signal. Soviet era 121.5MHz AM transeiver and beacon R-855. EPSON XP-212 printer scanner on Navigatrix.
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: August 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Tesco Internet Phone with Skype/Linux. I have been watching the price of the Tesco internet phone USB internet phone pack drop. It has now gone down to 9.98 so I bought one. I also bought their headset - a mono headset with a boom mike for 9.97. You both from Tesco on line. My aim was to get get them working on my Sony Vaio PCG V505CP. Voice over IP service. Kernel: usbcore: registered new driver xpad. Kernel: drivers/us...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: December 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Tuesday, December 26, 2006. IPod nano on Mandriva 2006. We got my daughter got an iPod nano. For Christmas, and on Christmas day I was busy trying to get it to work on Linux. Currently the whole family use Mandriva 2006. The version of the nano we have is the PC Mac version. According to a ZoneO-tips. It is better to get the PC only version, but in this case it is not a problem. Plug it in and it automatically mounts as a USB mass storage. Lists ...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: January 2007
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Sunday, January 14, 2007. Namesecure are they the worst domain name registrar? I have several domains registered with Namessecure.com. I wonder if they are the worst place to register or host a domain? A few years ago when my friend Rick Booth. I am currently trying to move heartandmind.org to a UK hosting company fasthosts.co.uk. Here are some examples of complaints. Namesecure not answering phone for 4 weeks. Mail forwarding not working. Added ...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: December 2005
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Tuesday, December 27, 2005. A tale of a Sony Vaio and a projector. I can get really worked up about projectors not working. I always try to check the thing before I need it but its not always possible, and I have been caught out by strange old projectors at big conferences. I still have nightmares about it. Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT". Works on all the projectors I have tried it on now without rebooting. For hiding a rootkit. Rxvt -geometr...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: March 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Monday, March 27, 2006. Directions Navigator 4 for Linux. Time to retire my Clevo. Laptop. I bought it ages age from Digital Networks UK. For work, back in the days when laptops didn't work easily with linux and buying one preinstalled and with support was a good idea. It has had a broken case hinge and for a while and its second battery is caput. So wher is it going for its retirement? The Network Audio Stystem. The only teething troubles wi...
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: October 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Friday, October 06, 2006. This post has moved to Bill's Science. Posted by Billlion at 1:03 PM. Links to this post. Sunday, October 01, 2006. I loved Sasha Borovik's blog entry entitled. Psychophysiology of Blackboard Teaching. Hopefully the new Mathematics Building at the University of Manchester will have a large selection of excellent blackboards and manchester mathematicians will not have to travel around campus thus equipped!
billlions.blogspot.com
Bill's stuff: January 2006
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
Mainly about gadgets, linux, travel, technology, science,. Saturday, January 14, 2006. Bluetooth USB adapter on Linux. What a pain that the Bluetooth SIG have claimed that is illegal to list bluetooth devices that work under linux! Marcel Holtmann maintained a list. Sounds like Bluetooth protocol shooting itself in the foot. Anyway I am about to buy a bluetooth USB adapter to connect my Sony Vaio PCG V505 CP to my new Treo 650 smart phone. But thanks to the Way Back Machine. I wonder if I had got any fur...