In my last post I upgraded to the 2.6.22 kernel to get the nvidia closed source driver to work. Since then the behaviour of the mouse has been very weird: Clicks register as double-clicks Can’t access menus in Firefox/Iceweseal using the mouse Selecting icons on the desktop is difficult, more than one gets selected. Can’t [...]

Getting this error message after you’ve compiled the nvidia video module and try to load it: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘paravirt_ops’ This happens because paravirtualisation is enabled in these kernels, and causes the kernel to only allow GPL modules to build: What happens is that when paravirtualization support is turned on [...]

Some NYC artists are moving to Berlin, for lower prices and a vibrant arts scene: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505553,00.html And, Der Spiegel’s look at Europe’s “coolest” city: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,502297,00.html And Dublin’s second coming: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,503245,00.html Apple wants to lock you in to their technology: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-20.html And, Stephen Fry has a blog: http://www.stephenfry.com/blog Via, http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/fry-2007-09-20-13-10 Interesting article about a modern, but [...]

Cool: http://www.canadianliving.com From a man from Ireland: “My number one health tip is: walk everywhere possible! Since work is a 35-minute walk from home, I try to walk home every day, and I mean every day. It’s good basic exercise, limbers me up after sitting all day, helps me unwind and decompress after a day’s [...]

Cool new Peugeot.

The Canadian dollar is at it’s highest rate against the US dollar and is now worth .98c: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070918/dollar_parity_070918/20070918?hub=TopStories The Canadian dollar set a 30-year-high Tuesday, closing at US98.64 cents after investors got word of a drastic interest rate cut south of the border. And, it may be worth more than the US dollar soon! Economists [...]

I upgraded my Dell 700m laptop from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy. Gutsy is the current developemnt (beta) release of Ubuntu Linux and is planned to be released in October of 2007. After upgrading to Gutsy and restarting my laptop many of the fonts were too big. To correct this you may need to set [...]

Today’s interesting links, via Reddit: About the guy who makes “2 buck chuck” a cheap wine sold by Trader Joe’s: http://money.cnn.com Franzia, who rose to fame several years ago when he started selling a $2 bottle called Charles Shaw, calls winemakers “bozos in a glass.” He really goes off on wine critic Robert Parker, who, [...]

Another amazing sunset up at the lake this weekend. I took this one tonight: And this two nights ago: A few more here: http://flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/20070906/

Some of the more interesting pages I’ve been looking at today: Melting ice caps in Greenland triggering earthquakes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange/print And Polar bears numbers may be vastly reduced in the wild: http://www.nytimes.com/ RFID chips cause cancer in rodents: http://www.washingtonpost.com Reverse anthropology? http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2932252.ece Brian’s 40th! http://donegalfriends.blogspot.com/2007/09/happy-40th-brian.html Stupid burglar near the lake! http://www.leaderherald.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=12497