cloudplasma various photographs and (oh too few) mini linux tips

8Mar/100

sunset from the kingston bridge

sun­set from the king­ston bridge, glas­gow. had some lovely sun­sets recently…tried to catch this one on the move…thought the cloud tex­ture was rather nice…

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2Mar/100

blue steam train — glasgow transport museum

a blue steam loco­mot­ive in the glas­gow museum of trans­port. there are some lovely, mostly old (obvi­ously i sup­pose), exhib­its in the museum includ­ing trains, cars, boats and vari­ous other modes of get­ting around…well worth a visit…and it’s free. see here for more details. it will be mov­ing to a new home in april 2010 so have a look before it’s unavail­able for a while.

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24Feb/100

htc — hero downgrade and root access

just got an htc hero smartphone…well actu­ally it is from t-mobile and they call it a g2 touch. runs android 1.5. see here for a review.

after get­ting a replace­ment bat­tery (the first one only las­ted 12 hours at a time) i was lik­ing it very much. wasn’t too happy about the t-mobile stuff bolted on to it though…

the solu­tion? cre­ate a ‘gold card’ that enables you to down­grade the phone and replace the t-mobile ruu with the offi­cial one from htc.

fol­low these instruc­tions very care­fully and you too can have a t-mobile-free htc hero. you’ll need a microsd card that can be format­ted, your usb lead and a decent charge in the phone. the whole pro­cess takes around 20 minutes. well worth it.

great phone with loads of free (and high qual­ity) applic­a­tions from the android market.

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24Feb/100

largs at dusk

largs at dusk…looking towards the ferry terminal

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8Feb/100

statue and mansions — glasgow architecture

maps — two examples of the var­ied archi­tec­ture in glasgow’s city centre. a statue at the top of a build­ing on sauchiehall street and st. george’s man­sions at the corner of wood­lands road and st. george’s road.

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6Feb/100

tower — gilbert scott building

the tower on the main build­ing (gil­bert scott) of the uni­ver­sity of glasgow.

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2Feb/100

browser benchmark — test yours with peacekeeper

future­mark (the people behind the fam­ous graph­ics card bench­marks) have a browser test avail­able on their site peace­keeper.

you can check out other browsers res­ults or test your own.

i only have three installed at the moment on ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 and my paltry res­ults can be seen in this screenshot…

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28Jan/100

underpass — blue neon lights

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