Jacken’s Blog

After setting up a HTPC for my projector, I wanted a PVR function so that I could record programs from the DVB satellite and watch it later. But I gave up on using a card in the pc box. So I got a Dreambox DM7000-S instead. It’s a linux-based multimedia box with a built-in [...]

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A while ago I wrote a blog entry about my adventures in Norway. But because I used the word snuff (tobacco to put in your mouth), a lot of people have searched for pictures of people being murdered. Because I aim to please I have put some pictures here for you to enjoy.

WARNING! THESE PICTURES [...]

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I used to always listen to playlists when using my iPod, but the last three months I now usually listen to whole albums. Why the change? Don’t know. Maybe I have been fortunate to get hold of some great albums. It’s been awhile since I’ve heard a whole album that’s full of great songs. Usually [...]

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I’m in the process of buying a new mouse for my Powerbook G4 12″. What I really want is a mouse like this, but they are always designed for right handed people. So the only comfortable mouses I can find is the generic ones without flashy features. Irritating.

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The new iMac looks nice and all, but Apple needs to get an entry level machine out there. A small machine with three PCI-slots, built-in video card (something not sucky, Apple always includes sucky video cards) and why not put in S-Video out? AND NO BUILT-IN SCREEN!

Trying to get Windows users to switch is hard [...]

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Sometimes when I need to use my webmail (SquirrelMail) I find it irritating that I don’t have my addresses from AddressBook available. So today I used a program called AddressBook2LDAP to transfer all my addresses to the LDAP server on my webserver machine. I put it in cn=people. I then used the SquirrelMail configuration program [...]

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