While I was quick to make use of the startpage.com “add search engine” button there isn’t really such a friendly method to add a search engine to thunderbird. Long(ish) story short thunderbird and firefox use very similar methods to store your profile information, the startpage.com configuration for firefox is stored in /home/<your user name>/.mozilla/firefox/<a random […]

While there is a perfectly good cheat sheet here to be honest I tend to blog as much as an aide-mémoire for myself so I’ve made my own notes and condensed it down to what I find most useful, hopefully it should be also useful for others! Update the package db emerge –sync This will […]

While it seems to me that as much as Devuan would be a nice solution its going to be a long time coming.  As far as I can make out (and there in lies another issue!) they are after 1:1 binary compatibility, for me that’s just not enough, to do a fork properly they need […]

While I’m waiting for Lwjgl’s GLES binding, I thought I’d put together some code using shaders that could be easily ported to GLES later (As such it uses a subset of what’s usually available) I’ll quickly run through how the shader is implemented.  Lets look at the main body of the vertex shader, which couldn’t […]

If all you’d ever done was look at the front page of LWJGL’s website you could (almost) be forgiven for thinking it was a dead project!  This is solely because over the last year or so they have been hard at work with the all new and shiny version 3. While it’s out – its […]

You can pick up a Lapdock 100 for around £50 – which for a mouse, keyboard, screen and battery combination is hard to beat.  Naturally as its not a solution specifically for the Pi its not just plug and play.  The Lapdock connectors consist of a HDMI micro plug and micro USB plug, so you’ll […]

Update: It looks like with Jessie now “frozen” that for the time being your freedom not to install systemd is fairly safe… In addition you can seemingly get rid of most of pol/console kit cruft too.  While the so called lightdm and slim are ruled out by this, at least xdm is still lightweight… Debian […]

(Arrgh them damn bus taps!) After a lengthy break from electronics (blame the wife!) I decided to get back into working with FPGA’s and the world of pain that are their woeful accompanying tools… You can see from my earlier posts that my introduction to VHDL allowed me to produce (from scratch!) a VGA signal […]

In the unlikely event you haven’t discovered GreaseMonkey it’s ideal for tweaking the presentation of a website to suit your own taste. A good example of this would be the ad sponsored block of links typically at the top of the list of search results.  These are often presented in a box with a subtly […]

While far from complete, SpritePlacer now has physics.  Each sprite can have multiple physics shapes added to it.  This allows you to have sprites that aren’t rectangular.  You can see an example of this on the left (click to enlarge), the dumbbell shapes each have three physics shapes.  Two spheres and a rectangle are sufficient […]