Nishanth' tech rambles

I will be un-shamed of increasing my blog hit, but then what the heck: Following http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dangers.png here are the stuff that died: Many Silicons - cause - Money Many drivers 'nd patches - cause - bad coding U-boot OMAP3430 support - cause - errr.... Me - cause... Laziness :D

I moved to http://quickquote.mozdev.org/faq.html instead of playing around with user.js everytime for thunderbird reply message customization. I would have done the good old days" //vista: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\user.js (ofcourse you need to change permissions to edit..) // Change the reply header // 0 - No Reply-Text // 1 - "[Author] wrote:" // 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:" // 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjunction with this: user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3); // If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs. user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following"); user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s"); user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " "); user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":"); // The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][co...

What a journey... 2 years of 17 inch laptop to today's 12 inch laptop... My old laptop been dead for a month now.. finally got my new lenovo thinkpad tablet working.. (yep.. Linux is pending.. :D mebbe I will go ubuntu this time).. Love the compact light and extreme configuration... only I got me vista 32 bit and 4GB of RAM but only 3GB visible due to the 32bit OS. Linux should fix it (will save me 139$ for moving to vista 64 bit ultimate).. what else.. blazing config core duo T7200 proc, 4GBRAM, 7200RPM HDD blah blah blah... On the downside of things: a) only rescue CD - the full Disk image or nothing... no customization seen :( b) hate the function key next to control key.. c) missing touchpad. the control stick is kinda cute... but i am a onehand user of laptops d) love the light weight, low heat laptop (my wife's HP is literally capable of making a omlette).. e) love the tablet features.. vista handwriting recognition is: quote my wife:"capable of reading your chicken ...