oddly
Friday, March 8 2013
[03:04:39]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
Oddly, it's now cheaper for me to call the London, England ($0.0078/min) than it is for me to call London, CT ($0.0095/min).
Friday, September 7 2012
[02:52:42]
matt [wronka.org]/Vasillisa
Oddly the MythTV music plugin doesn't default to reusing the standard audio settings; you need to explicitly set the audio device to 'default'.
Tuesday, July 24 2012
[17:10:02]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
Somewhat interestingly, when I was testing Mythbuntuj as a backend, it seemed to work fine. Then iowait went through the roof once I added the production RAID set-up. Oddly, the iowait turned out to be unrelated (at least the worst of it); this was apparently a known issue with Mythbuntu 12.04, and it's unclear why I hadn't seen it originally.
Saturday, May 19 2012
[12:01:28]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
Oddly, Bass in the Kamakura 7-11 was US$3 a bottle while all of the local beers started at twice that.
Tuesday, March 27 2012
[15:23:56]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
Colour balance on the lytro is pretty weak. Oddly, photos show with a yellow hue (more green) on the device and more magenta once imported (but a bit mroe natural). I don't know if this is down to colour correction being done by the software or different display colour balances. Given that the first batch of imports looked natural on both devices, I'm betting it's the import trying to do auto-balncing.
Wednesday, July 27 2011
One Hour with the WebOS TouchPad
[17:16:54] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia The web browser has different trade-offs with the pre-IOS5 web kit browser. General display is better, but there are instances where the scrolling is broken until you zoom in or out first; support for Arabic is noticeably absent by default.
The device itself collects and displays fingerprints more-so than others I've used (Apple iPad, Nokia N900, Samsung/Google Nexus S).
Oddly, when I set the language to Spanish, it still showed the Google location services terms-of-service in English. Other license agreements were in Spanish.
It required me to create a "WebOS" account with my name and eMail address. It didn't require me to set the timezone, which it presumably got from my location.
My co-worker, and IOS advocate, voiced that there weren't enough apps in the store, and that the UI looked too much like KDE.
I might like it better than an IOS device--the fact that I can switch between the Web browser and other programs without closing each in turn is a large part of this--but I'm not sure that I would buy one on my own. It seems rough still, but still promising. If it hadn't been for the disruption of Palm going out of business and being acquired by HP, I would imagine that a lot of these rough edges would have been polished, and am dissapointed that this hypothetical device isn't what it is my hands.
[17:16:54] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia The web browser has different trade-offs with the pre-IOS5 web kit browser. General display is better, but there are instances where the scrolling is broken until you zoom in or out first; support for Arabic is noticeably absent by default.
The device itself collects and displays fingerprints more-so than others I've used (Apple iPad, Nokia N900, Samsung/Google Nexus S).
Oddly, when I set the language to Spanish, it still showed the Google location services terms-of-service in English. Other license agreements were in Spanish.
It required me to create a "WebOS" account with my name and eMail address. It didn't require me to set the timezone, which it presumably got from my location.
My co-worker, and IOS advocate, voiced that there weren't enough apps in the store, and that the UI looked too much like KDE.
I might like it better than an IOS device--the fact that I can switch between the Web browser and other programs without closing each in turn is a large part of this--but I'm not sure that I would buy one on my own. It seems rough still, but still promising. If it hadn't been for the disruption of Palm going out of business and being acquired by HP, I would imagine that a lot of these rough edges would have been polished, and am dissapointed that this hypothetical device isn't what it is my hands.
Thursday, February 3 2011
[13:19:06]
matt [wronka.org]/Merch
Oddly, I just recieived a message from T-Mobile US saying my phone wasn't configured for Internet access. If you're reading this message it was wrong.