Filesharing traffic levels higher after IPRED

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.

Netnod november

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.

Hugo update

Hugo hoodI just wanted to post a picture of my son, it’s been a while since I did. Time is running so fast and sometimes it feels like he’s growing up way too fast. Today he actually took 3-4 steps by himself and I think he’s soon on his way to start walking for real.

It’s an amazing feeling when you get home, no matter how your day was, there’s always one little guy at home happy as hell to see his dad.

BOSE QuietComfort 3

BOSE QuietComfort 3Today 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.

NDAS driver on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Valore_ION_330_DBI just bought a ASRock ION 330 and had some problems installing the NDAS driver with Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. It seems that the NDAS source doesn’t compile very well on the kernel shipped with Ubuntu 9.10. Luckily I found some patched packages for AMD64 when browsing through the wiki at http://code.ximeta.com. I really didn’t put much faith in that it would work, but surprisingly it worked right out of the box!

Regarding the ASRock ION 330 I must say that it’s a wonderful piece of computer, so small in size but so much under the “hood”. Go buy one!

Sony Vaio brightness on Ubuntu Karmic solved

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!