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Spam as an incentive

I’ve finally taken the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and I’ve got the incredible volume of blog spam I receive and the shiny new Akismet wordpress plugin to thank for that. It only works with WordPress 2.x so if that isn’t motivation to upgrade, I don’t know what is!

n800 MMC 4/SDHC enabled kernel

Alright then. As promised earlier, I’ve got a pre-built replacement kernel for the n800 which adds support for MMC 4 and SDHC cards.

Obligatory n800 Post

So, after some effort, I managed to get my n800 ordered last week with my developer discount code (Thanks Nokia!) and it arrived today.

High Capacity SD and MMC support

In our last episode, I talked about how I was planning to add support for SDHC cards to Linux, and I’m happy to report that Pierre has accepted my changes into his tree and pushed them out to -mm; hopefully they’ll be in mainline for 2.6.21.

Performs best when used with Linux

When it comes to hardware support, we often find ourselves confronted with statements that such-and-such a piece of hardware can’t be used to its full capability under linux or feature ‘X’ isn’t supported yet…

Virtual Xinerama

Have you ever wished you could test out ridiculously complex xinerama configurations, but didn’t have the hardware? Well, now you can.

Putting the cart before the horse

So, one of my friends at work was complaining bitterly after I tricked him into installing 64bit Ubuntu on his shiny new xw9300…

gphotofs 0.3 released

Thanks to the long weekend, I’ve finally had some time to look at my various little projects, and gphotofs is definitely one that’s needed some attention.

Maemo Weather 0.7 Released!

Well, that didn’t take too long. I’ve tagged and released Maemo Weather 0.7 with support for Maemo 2.0/IT2006…

Maemo Weather has a new home!

Marius Gedminas asked why my GWeather port wasn’t on the new Maemo Garage site and there isn’t a good reason, so I’ve rectified that situation…