Wayne D's Blog

Recently I upgraded the version of smplayer which the EEEPC uses to play video. In the process I managed to break it so the volume control in smplayer no longer worked. Smplayer is an mplayer wrapper and mplayer also lost it's ability to change the volum… more »

The experience of Linux on the EEEPC neatly summerizes the problem with Linux, that is Linux is a concept and not a thing. For some unfathomable reason Asus picked the Xandros distro as the version of Linux to install on the EEEPC. The charitable interpr… more »

While driving to Ottawa over the Christmas break I took the time to get caught up on Buzz Out Loud. In one episode Molly Wood opined on how cool it would be when the semantic web was finally working and she could get her semantic web feed populated with… more »

Yesterday 12seconds.tv had a special event for New Years Eve. I decided to take my EEEPC out at about 9 p.m. and record some of the Christmas lights in the neighbourhood. It was very cold, probably around -15C. Unfortunately I had to remove my glove to u… more »