http://headwedge.com/wordpress (v)[a state of mental confusion] as in: 'head wedged up own arse Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From techradar.com (this one is for ectpete)... Why wait for Windows 7 though? There are loads of ways you can fiddle with Vista's interface and cheer up the depressing and omnipresent black bars. To show you some of the options out there here are seven tricks for dealing with that most ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/11/12/yet-more-mac-envy-7-ways-to-make-your-pc-look-like-a-mac/ This seems a logical step for many Eee PC owners and the Asus Eee PC Forum has a thread devoted to unraveling this issue [link] but for your convenience here are the steps laid out: Format the SDHC card - Use the graphical Gnome Partition Manager to partition all the available space ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/11/01/ubuntu-eee-how-to-mount-8gb-transcend-sdhc-card-as-home/ Yet again the magic that is 'er in-doors has come up trumps with the best geeky accessory gift a proud new Eee PC owner could wish for.. a leather case! Amazon have this hand made soft leather case for the 900 series at a great price [link] I particularly like the pouches ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/10/28/asus-eee-pc-900-leather-case-goodness/ The first thing that you should do with your new Eee PC is replace the Asus/Xandros Linux with Ubuntu Eee! The folks over at Ubuntu Eee [link] have taken the Ubuntu Netbook Remix Interface and served up something special for the Eee... Ubuntu Eee is not only Ubuntu optimized for the Asus ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/10/28/ubuntu-eee-8041/ My wonderful wife bought a present for me, an early Christmas present as it happens, the wonderful little Asus Eee PC 900 [link] Now, normally being a couple of geeks we would have unboxed the little machine together but due to fact I had to go to work and ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/10/26/eee-pc-900-unboxing-hurrah/ Don't get me wrong but Parallels is my favourite Windoze surrogate but the Ars Technica Review of VMware Fusion 2 for Mac might be changing that... VMware 2.0’s grown-up form combines an improved interface with some major low-level features, like support for DirectX 9.0c 3D, four-way SMP, driverless printing, and tighter ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/10/25/ars-technica-reviews-vmware-fusion-2-for-mac/ With the rumor mill trying to chew up the Mac Mini again AppleInsider has reassuring article with a crazy server farm example of mini's potency... "With Apple's recent 'State of the Mac' omitting any mention of the Mac mini and reports surfacing over the current line's discontinuation, there's been some speculation ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/10/25/rumors-of-mac-minis-death-premature/ The team over at www.makeuseof.com have a blog that mostly covers web apps, but they're trying to cover many bases: from web apps, Windows apps and now Mac apps... "List of the most frequently used Mac applications and provided a free counterpart for each of them. Hopefully, they’ll serve you as ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/09/19/free-alternatives-to-10-popular-commercial-mac-applications/ Went for a walk with the dogs in our local wood which, delightfully, is called 'Nutwood' [link]. It had just finished raining and the pungent aroma from the wild garlic (Allium ursinum) was amazing.[link] The wild garlic grows in woodland, in near or among the bluebells, and is a wonderful sign ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/05/19/433/ Producing code to the GNU coding standards requires setting up your system appropriately. step 0 Download and read the free book 'Developing software with GNU' [link] step 1 Ensure Free Software Foundation tools are present and up to date: apt-get install make [link] apt-get install m4 [link] apt-get ... http://headwedge.com/wordpress/2008/05/18/linux-c-programming-setting-up-ubuntu-autoconf-automake-libtools-acmkdir/