I have been working on some vala code recently which supports the extant spotify client — adding media keys and notification support. Unfortunately the default notification service on Ubuntu 11.04 see…

Forgive me, Intarwubs, for I have sinned. It has been a little over seven months and seven days since my last confession (regarding secretfs) and I have done much and little in that time. In brief, I …

Recently I wrote a secret-sharing FUSE filesystem called secretfs. It is read-only and its purpose was purely to allow me to recombine the secret shares which comprise my SSH and GPG private keys. I n…

I am a proud Kindle owner. I love my Kindle and try to buy books in an electronic format whenever I can. However, I am in a bit of a quandry. You see; I won’t buy a Kindle e-book if it’s more expensiv…

…Android-based (or capable of being Android’ed) tablet. Requirements: At least 256MB of RAM At least 4GB of storage (can be SD card) At least 8" screen Ideally capacitative screen, although re…

I am wanting to monitor what processes perform IO on a couple of files. Unfortunately there appears to be a big lack of ability to do this under Linux. There’s inotify which I can use to watch the fil…

In no particular order, I have read (and enjoyed) the following recently: Anthem by Ayn Rand Blindsight by Peter Watts Halo by Tom Maddox The Defenders by Philip K. Dick The Gun by Philip K.…

For quite a while, I used ‘Bitstream Vera Sans Mono’ which eventually became ‘DejaVu Sans Mono’ but I eventually changed to ‘Droid Sans Mono’ as my terminal and editor font. I’m beginning to realise t…

I recently updated vmware on my desktop to workstation 6.5.4 having previously upgraded the machine to Ubuntu 10.04. This resulted in interesting issues so I thought I’d collate them all here. ​1. vmw…