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Filesharing traffic levels higher after IPRED

loxley — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:07:51 +0000

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.

Hugo update

loxley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:37:23 +0000

I 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

loxley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:35:43 +0000

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.

NDAS driver on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

loxley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:44:35 +0000

I 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

loxley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:19:02 +0000

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!

New way to detect laptop user presence

loxley — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:28:11 +0000

Some researchers are experimenting with a new way of detecting the presence of a laptop user using sonar technique. The goal is to shut off the display direcly when the user leaves the computer, compare that to the slow way of reading timeouts from mouse and keyboard.

You can get a better overview and download the actual source code on their project site.

FRA changes voted through

loxley — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:57:28 +0000

With 158 votes to 153, the changes to the wiretapping law which will enable the civil agency (FRA – Defense Radio Agency) to snoop traffic crossing the Swedish border, was today voted through in the Swedish parliament.

I wasn’t expecting any other outcome than this because the current government is a bunch of idiots. All we can hope for now is that the opposition (S, V and MP) will win the next election and that they’ll go through with their promise of tearing up the law.

Atleast I’ll know where to put my vote and I hope all of you out there knows too. I don’t want my children to grow up in a society that monitors and controls every footstep and action you’re taking.

Polyfoto Trelleborg

loxley — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:20:10 +0000

VARNING! Om ni tycker om oklara besked, betala för mer än vad som är överenskommit och oproffsigt bemötande så fotografera Er på Polyfoto i Trelleborg. Vi är nöjda med ett av de barnfoto som vi till slut fick men det var knappt att vi ens fick ut dem. Läs mer här.

Ubuntu mail-notification with OpenSSL support

loxley — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:46:30 +0000

I wanted to use mail-notification for my home and work mailboxes, but I found out that the SSL/TLS support was left out due to licensing matters. As I’m using SSL on my mailboxes I needed to rebuild the package to use OpenSSL. So if you need SSL support with mail-notification(amd64) you can grab it here.

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

http://apt-get.se/ubuntu aptgetse-jaunty main

Get my public key for apt-secure:

wget -q http://apt-get.se/ubuntu/aptgetse.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Visca Barça

loxley — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:58:42 +0000

So it’s been proved, the best player at the moment is Leo Messi and the best team is FC Barcelona after winning the Champions League! Manchester United was not even close and was playing like a team from Football League One. By the way, who the hell is Cristiano Ronaldo?