http://blog.schoash.com Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:31:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/10/21/we-got-a-photo-request-from-schmap-las-vegas-guide/ 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/30/roomba-is-doing-a-good-job/ I was struggeling with the backlight quite for a while now. But finally I found something which finally works. 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/18/make-backlight-adjustment-work-in-ubuntu-on-the-panasonic-cf-r7/ 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/08/17/crystal-white-ps3-jp-power-supply-in-europe/ The ORF is not even capable of transmitting a stupid Euro 2008 semi finals game without difficulties. Damnit, in the middle of the game. 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/ 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/05/01/flight-simulator-x-is-a-bit-crazy/ 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/20/convert-uif-images-in-ubuntu-linux/ 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 ... http://blog.schoash.com/2008/03/05/playing-with-nokia-sportstracker/ 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/ Simply nice :) [youtube -9Tu5CPVoP8] http://blog.schoash.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-windows-vista-wonders/