No Name http://blog.schoash.com Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:31:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en We got a photo request from Schmap Las Vegas Guide http://blog.schoash.com/2008/10/21/we-got-a-photo-request-from-schmap-las-vegas-guide/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/10/21/we-got-a-photo-request-from-schmap-las-vegas-guide/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:31:55 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/?p=114 My wife just got mail that a picture from our last Vegas trip got on the short-list from Schmap. It seems that the editors found that picture on Flickr, where we also uploaded some of the pictures we made on the trip. The picture they want to publish is this one here.

The picture was taken by my wife while we were driving on the strip on a very hot day in September last year. I am actually quite curious to see it in the next issue.

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/10/21/we-got-a-photo-request-from-schmap-las-vegas-guide/feed/ Roomba is doing a good job http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/30/roomba-is-doing-a-good-job/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/30/roomba-is-doing-a-good-job/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:18:13 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/?p=91 For some weeks I have a Roomba, but I didn’t have time to write about it yet. Today I made a video while it was cleaning the floor in the room. Its a very nice tool, since me and my wife don’t like vacuming that much. The only thing bothering is the amount of hair getting stuck in the brushes and the fact that it has to be cleaned, selfcleaning would be awesome. But at least the carpet gets cleaner with Roomba.





Check out the all new Roomba for Pets and Roomba Professional for all your vacuuming needs!

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First you need git core installed

sudo aptitude install git-core

Next you checkout the module

git clone git://git.myrix.net/pana_acpi

The next step is compiling and loading the module

cd ./pana_acpi
make
make install
modprobe panasonic_acpi

At this point you can already check if the brightness buttons are working.
Next copy ./pana_acpi/acpi/* to /etc/acpi
and restart the acpid daemon.

/etc/init.d/acpid restart

This module should work on all the 7-Series from Panasonic. I only tried it out with my CF-R7.

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/18/make-backlight-adjustment-work-in-ubuntu-on-the-panasonic-cf-r7/feed/ Crystal White PS3 (jp) Power Supply in Europe http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/17/crystal-white-ps3-jp-power-supply-in-europe/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/17/crystal-white-ps3-jp-power-supply-in-europe/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:05:44 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/?p=88 I was quite shocked when I read the tag on my PS3 which says 110V.

The PS3 is the crystal white one I got in Japan. So the first thing when I was back home, open the whole thing to see whats under the hood. That whole procedure already happened back in March but thats how the internal psu looks like.

So don’t worry of connecting an JP PS3 to the 230V power system in Europe. It should work as I heard from several forums as well.

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SHAME ON YOU!!

update: seems like the swiss guys couldn’t make it :D sry ORF

update2: they couldnt broadcast, in the meantime there were 2 goals :D

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/06/25/orf-sucks/feed/ Flight Simulator X is a bit crazy http://blog.schoash.com/2008/05/01/flight-simulator-x-is-a-bit-crazy/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/05/01/flight-simulator-x-is-a-bit-crazy/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 18:12:57 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/?p=83 Today I was flying from Chubu Nagoya Airport to Kansai Intl. with an Airbus A-320. I was just approaching the destination airport, when an error came up.

It says that the computer run out of memory. The computer is running Vista 64 and has around 8GB of RAM.

This is really a weired behaviour :s

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/05/01/flight-simulator-x-is-a-bit-crazy/feed/ Convert uif Images in Ubuntu Linux http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/20/convert-uif-images-in-ubuntu-linux/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/20/convert-uif-images-in-ubuntu-linux/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:39:41 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/20/convert-uif-images-in-ubuntu-linux/ In my windows ages I was used to make backups in uif format. Sofar I couldn’t find any way to transform these images back from .uif to .iso. For all the people out there who don’t know what uif is:

Universal Image Format(UIF) is a powerful compression image file format for backing up CD/DVD. It is fast, reliable, and has rich set of features which include password-protected, data encryption, MD5 checksum support and much more. UIF can not only contain the complete data of CD/DVD just like ISO image, But UIF also supports backing up multi-session CD/DVD, Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video.

Before I was always using magicISO in wine or virtualbox. Today I found a great tool to do that right inside ubunt. Just get the tool here and compile it and have fun!

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/20/convert-uif-images-in-ubuntu-linux/feed/ Playing with Nokia Sportstracker http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/05/playing-with-nokia-sportstracker/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/05/playing-with-nokia-sportstracker/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:03:34 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/05/playing-with-nokia-sportstracker/ I was quite surprised that the N95 built in GPS also worked inside the train. Since I am abroad I switched off assisted GPS and Network help. The device obviously worked quite well anyway. Just check out my route here. It show the way from a bit before Nagoya to Kyoto on the Shinkansen.

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You can see such things when you are walking in the shopping mall at nearly 9pm. Seems he was very tired.

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/01/funny-japan/feed/ Microsoft Windows Vista wonders http://blog.schoash.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-windows-vista-wonders/ http://blog.schoash.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-windows-vista-wonders/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:34:36 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-windows-vista-wonders/ Simply nice :)


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