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I’m not a rocket scientist but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that people wouldn’t stop file sharing just because some idiots came up with a law against it. (Hey Pontén)… So what was thought as a law to prevent people from daring to file share actually turned out to serve no actual purpose. When do they ever learn that some things can never be stopped, because there is always another way to solve a problem.

Here we can see the traffic levels before April 1st last year when IPRED was voted through and how the traffic increased over the year to actually surpass them.

Read more about it at torrentfreak.

Today I tested BOSE QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noice Cancelling headphones. The result is amazing, it’s just you and the music and no background noise interfering with the listening experience.

Unfortunately the headphones weren’t mine, but when I get some cash over the first thing I’ll do is get me a pair of these. Really good when you are coding, relaxing or concentrating on something.

Yes! Finally Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) recognizes the FN keys + F5 and F6 on my Sony Vaio AR71S. This has been annoying me ever since the Intrepid release. It still doesn’t work right out of the box because you need to add sony-brightness-up and sony-brightness-down in /etc/acpi/events, but it’s no big deal as long as the key events are recognized.

To get the key events just use acpi_listen and press down FN+F5, it will output something like this:

sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010 (key combo pressed)
sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b (key combo released)


And when pressing FN+F6 we get this:

sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000011 (key combo pressed)
sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b (key combo released)


These events we’ll put in sony-brightness-up/down and my down script looks like this:

event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010
action=/usr/bin/nvclock -S -12


I’m using nvclock because when using smartdimmer the intervals where just to low when dimming. I put a interval in nvclock of -12 which is reasonable. That’s it!