USB to PS/2 Adapter: a good idea
Since I pre-ordered my Pepper, I’ve been casually browsing around looking for some kind of small, wireless, full-size-ish keyboard to use with it. Don’t get me wrong, even though my thumbs are huge, I am getting used to and quickly learning the layout of the thumb-pads, but for more serious text input I knew that […]
Getting stuff onto the Pad
Unfortunately, right off the get-go I was having problems getting my music and video onto the pad (which is still without a name, and no, I’m not calling it Sgt. Pepper). I had initially planned on using my USB->CF card reader to put files onto it. Unfortunately, the Linux 2.4 kernel doesn’t get along with […]
FCC gives up the insides
Photos of the inside of Pepper, so I don’t have to take mine apart! Images in PDF file
Ohh, the extreme irony…
My Pepper Pad was shipped from Canada (where it is assembled), to the USA, and back to Canada. Canada Customs is making lots of money off of this transaction.
Hacking Pepper’s Linux (setting up SSH)
Yes, it’s here. And since there’s virtually zero third-party information about this thing on the net, expect this category of my site to get very busy, very soon. I got the Pepper Pad for two reasons: Easy-to-use , portable web browsing throughout my home Makes a decent portable video player too Has full Linux distro, […]
It’s here! It’s here!
I knew it wasn’t vapourware. Shame on you, Jon!
Where’s my Pepper?
It’s officially been two months since I pre-ordered my Pepper Pad, and it’s supposed to ship any day now. Still no joy. I hate waiting for stuff to ship, especially when it’s really expensive and I’ve saved up for it for months and I really really want it to get here but it isn’t here […]
gotta hack this page design
So now I’ve got WordPress installed and it’s nice and all that, but the default theme is driving me bananas. Why? It has a static width. I hate static width webpages. It’s not that hard to use a design that scales gracefully from 800×600 all the way up to 2048×1536. So the first thing I’ll […]
busted device blues done got me down
There’s really no point in carrying my Newton around anymore. I haven’t opened it in weeks. I need to figure out where my sites are going to move to though, since I’m going to have to bring my server home by the end of September and I don’t just want those resources to go away. […]
About hardware, and avoiding “lock-in”
I’ve been asked and also been asking myself the same question, over and over again, over the recent weeks and months: Nintendo DS or Sony PSP? I’ve finally come to a decision, and it is: neither. This is the reason: I don’t like hardware of software that makes decisions for me. I don’t want to […]
