http://blog.olitee.com thoughts & musings from the mind of olitee Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:47:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/timelapse/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/timelapse/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:27:38 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=846 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/timelapse/feed/ 0 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/the-iphone-3g-lives-on/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/the-iphone-3g-lives-on/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:12:56 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=828 A few months ago I made a decision: Whatever new ‘iPhone’ Apple reveals at WWDC, I’m not interested. I don’t have any money, and I’m perfectly happy with my iPhone 3G. My intentions were good, but unfortunately I got sucked in by Apple’s Reality Distortion Field along with everyone else. At one point I actually [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/07/the-iphone-3g-lives-on/feed/ 1 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/overheating-apple-tv/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/overheating-apple-tv/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:35:32 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=787 I’ve had an Apple TV for a number of years now, but in the last 12 months I’ve noticed an increasing number of problems with graphical glitches -- some pretty minor, such as the odd white pixel in the menu (shown above), up to the horrendous video playback problems like this: I’ve done quite a [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/overheating-apple-tv/feed/ 5 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/iphone-4-0-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/iphone-4-0-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:23:28 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=756 There’s been a storm brewing between rivals Google, Adobe and Apple. Each day seems to bring news of some minor sparring between the software giants, but instead of looking on in mild amusement, I’ve started to realise how their actions are affecting the future of smartphone development. The news that made me sit up and [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/04/iphone-4-0-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/feed/ 2 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/howto-ubuntu-as-a-time-machine-volume/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/howto-ubuntu-as-a-time-machine-volume/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:02:46 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=695 Have you ever wished you could use Apple’s Time Machine service over a network? Since I’ve got almost 2TB of storage on my Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) server, I certainly did – but unfortunately Apple only lets you use physically attached USB or Firewire drives, or their own network-attached “Time Capsule”. Well, it turns out theres [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/howto-ubuntu-as-a-time-machine-volume/feed/ 3 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/to-the-mac/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/to-the-mac/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:09:57 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=681 In late 2006 I wrote an article about how I switched from PC to Mac, and through frustration over a few petty things I switched back. The main reason was simply that the Mac didn’t allow me to play my PC games, nor did it (perhaps more importantly!) allow me to continue developing MS-based applications [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/to-the-mac/feed/ 1 http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/ubuntu-remote-desktop-without-a-monitor/ http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/ubuntu-remote-desktop-without-a-monitor/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:55:43 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=654 Ubuntu 9.10 makes a great OS for a home server, but if you’re not comfortable using terminal commands to setup and administer your box you may quickly run into a problem with the Desktop Edition of Ubuntu… Just recently I’ve repurposed an ASUS EeeBox into a nice little file server running Ubuntu 9.10. The EeeBox [...]]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2010/01/ubuntu-remote-desktop-without-a-monitor/feed/ 15 http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/white-christmas/ http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/white-christmas/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:58:50 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=644 Just a couple of photos from the last few days. It’s been a while since we had a white Christmas. Happy Christmas everyone!]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/white-christmas/feed/ 0 http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/is-it-too-early/ http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/is-it-too-early/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:14:25 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=605 Ok, so I know it’s only the 1st of December … but doesn’t the living room look so much nicer with a tree in it?!]]> http://blog.olitee.com/2009/12/is-it-too-early/feed/ 3 http://blog.olitee.com/2009/11/wheres_oli/ http://blog.olitee.com/2009/11/wheres_oli/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:06:14 +0000 Oli http://blog.olitee.com/?p=598 http://blog.olitee.com/2009/11/wheres_oli/feed/ 1