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On Monday night (a week and a half ago) I recorded a screencast tutorial (or tutecast as Gio called it). It was the first time I’d tried something like that. It took several attempts and a week of trying to compress the video to get it right. It might take a bit more practice to [...]

In Proteins this week I wound up with 44g of protein instead of 5. The good news is: I found where I went wrong in the calculations, I was an order of magnitude (10x) out on one thing. The bad news is: I suck! After bagging out a company for not being able to do [...]

Losing Memory
I had some frustration with my iPod nano this week. I have been using it on Linux with Rhythmbox, which I find quite good for organising and playng my music, but it doesn’t have great iPod support. It can copy files to the iPod and it pretends to be able to delete them, but [...]

Hmm, this morning I formatted my iPod for Mac because it was behaving very badly, only allowing about 600MB available memory (advertised as 1GB ) and somehow became read-only on my computer so that I couldn’t delete the half-transfered songs. This probably means I won’t get it working in Linux again until I format it [...]

ADesklets are widgets that can be used in Linux using the X-windows system.
They are cute and easily customisable. This article has a nice description of how to install the calendar and weather desklets. I now have the weather forecast one up and running and configured to the way I like it. I’ve had to configure [...]