Nabaztag (Armenian for “rabbit”) is a Wi-Fi enabled rabbit, manufactured by Violet. The Nabaztag is a “smart object”; it can connect to the Internet (for example to download weather forecasts, read its owner’s email, etc). It is also fully customizable and programmable. - Wikipedia.org Here is our Nabaztag - Francois Xavier: Of course, I’ve been messing around with poor old Francois’s programming.. With the help of OpenNab , a proxy server that masquerades as an official Nabaztag server, you can make your Nabaztag do all kinds of tricks. At the moment I’m getting him to read out what’s currently showing on TV when someone presses his button. ...

My GeForce4 MX 420 didn’t work properly with OpenGL under a fresh install of Dapper Drake. Fixing it, however, proved to be really easy: Install the nvidia package: $ apt-get install nvidia Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the ‘driver’ where it says ’nv’ with “nvidia”: Section “Device” Identifier “NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420]” #Driver “nv” Driver “nvidia” BusID “PCI:1:0:0” EndSection Kill X with control-alt-backspace Login again and test if it works by running glxgears and glxinfo on the console ...

This blog will be about my perspective on technology. Anything that catches my interest will be fair game, but mainly it will revolve around internet technology and the development of such. It will allow me to create an online presence, and to improve my writing skills. I hope you will find the time to check back on this blog and watch it progress.