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Well, I bought an N80 because it said it supported SIP. And indeed it did support it - technically. It had a SIP stack that allowed me to register with SIP servers, but it lacked a client to allow me to make SIP calls. That's the equivalent of someth...

If you've never heard of Peep Show - perhaps because you're not from the UK - which isn't really your fault, then I'm here to help you out. You really should buy it. It's one of the funniest things on UK TV. Channel 4 rocks. If I ever live abroad,...

"We succeeded in taking this picture [from deep space, taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles away], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard o...

I am a big fan of them. They're very useful. You can configure your email server to throw away any SMTP connections from, say, China, or any IP that has sent spam recently. Or any mail server that is located in a Dial-up user range. This is the probl...

Melilla: Google Map Ceuta: Google Map Kind of makes their moaning about Gibraltar look rather hypocritical, doesn't it?

This is the script I use to convert rips, youtube vids, or whatever so that I can watch them in Real Player on my Nokia N80 at a later time. I put it here, so that people searching might find the answer more easily. Obviously, you'll need ffmpeg ins...

Well, my Hauppauge HVR1110 card (that was sold as an HVR1100) is working in Linux. To cut to the quick, here are the steps you need to follow: Build and install a normal kernel (with DVB and v4l stuff selected as modules). hg clone http://linux...

Note: For the answer, see HVR1110 working in Linux I decided to get with the 21st century, and buy a Digital TV card, to use with MythTV. Bitten before, I researched what cards were supported in the Linux kernel natively, and found out that the ...

The post that started it all: From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.954...

I have a good friend who supports Liverpool football club. It's always puzzled me what people support when they support a local team like that. Obviously, I can understand supporting ones national team. If your country plays another, it's easy to se...