A simple matter of…

Yes, part of the point of this blog entry is to check that wordpress will tweet all my blog posts automatically
Identi.ca is basically an open source twitter, it will be interesting to see where it goes, but ATM at least it can feed twitter quite nicely. Unfortunately I still have to follow twitter [...]

I’ve been a keen Linux user for just shy of fifteen years now and there have been many, many changes, but I’m just going to look at the “desktop” side and see how things have changed (or not).
“Out of the box” - this has drastically improved. Sound normally works now and general hardware support [...]

My parents Freeview box no longer receives BBC One or BBC Two.
They live up in Cheshire and a while ago the Freeview channels were updated with a split-NIT, when they retuned the TV following the recent Freeview channel changes (and also for them the analogue switch off), no longer can they receive all [...]

In a follow up from yesterdays entry, I opened up my graphics card (Nvidia 8800GTS) and got rid of the dust. As you can see - there was quite a coating! Shame Nvidia made it so hard to clean (there’s normally a cover over this lot so you can’t see it, or clean it), [...]

Recently my desktop has become a little noisier than usual (it is pretty quiet).
After some investigation I found that the cause was the fan on the graphics card.
Using nvclock you can find out (retrospectively only AFAICT) the fan speed, let’s reduce it to 40%:

sudo nvclock -f -F 40
Current fanspeed: 1612 RPM
PWM duty [...]

If you jump on a spaceship, fly very quickly, then come back to Earth, you will have aged less than everyone else stuck on Earth.
So if you built a centrifuge, put all your food in and whizzed the centrifuge around very quickly (i.e. a good proportion of the speed of light) then you [...]