N900 charging from ‘dumb’ charger
I plugged in my n900 as it was on it’s very last gasps of power. Only to discover that it did not register any charge. I previously noted an issue with this charger when I’d completely run out of charge and found that whilst it did register charge nothing became responsive until I plugged it…
Insulating my garage
I’ve not spent a great deal of time in the garage in the last couple of months. Mostly because the work shop is not so appealing when it’s really cold.
Displaying a busy indicator on maemo python app.
This is the post I wish existed when I was looking for how to do this simple thing. I spent hours reading around trying to figure out how to show my app is busy, but to no avail.
Setting up maemo 5 python development environment
Last week I finally got around to downgrading my laptop from karmic to jaunty.
Asrock ion 330 mythtv setup
For a little over 6 years I’ve had my tv connected to a pc running MythTV. It’s really cool, and I could never go back to watching regular live tv.
Maemo : Custom cell renderer for gtk treeview (python)
I wrote a couple of weeks ago a little teaser about writing a custom cell renderer. When I first started witter, I found that a treeview was the obvious way to display tweets. And the available cell renderer was CellRendererText. which took care of the basics. However it didn’t look terribly ‘pretty’