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If you are a member of that special group of computer users, the tinkerers, you are going to wonder where Samurize has been all your life. I’d seen it mentioned a few times on Lifehacker but never really paid attention. Well, my mistake. “What is Samurize?”, you ask. Well, Samurize is “an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista”. Translation: lots of stats and very cool ways to play with and display them. (more…)

Last updates: 21-Jun-2009

Warning: This hack will not just void your warranty. It will drop-kick it to the floor, stomp it in the gonads five or six times, shoot it in the head, douse the body in petrol and set it ablaze THEN spit on the remains for good measure. And that doesn’t take into consideration what it could do to you or your equipment . You have been warned. Don’t try this unless you’re comfortable with multimeters and soldering irons.
Now, on to the good stuff. Suppose you have a Linksys WRT54G router & antenna that you want to mount somewhere, say on your roof. So, one fine Saturday morining, you grab a few tools and get to work. About 35 minutes into your little project, it hits you: How exactly do you get power for your router? The roof has no power outlets and you need to keep the antenna cable as short as possible to minimize signal losses. (more…)

Haunted Shell validates as both XHTML and CSS compliant. There were a few minor issues with tag placement and a misplaced quote I had to fix up. Easiest validation I’ve ever done. Part of the reason validation was so easy was because the template (Changing man by Stuff And Nonsense) I built my theme from was so elegant and very compliant.

The main issue however was caused by the thickbox.css file used by the NextGen Gallery plugin. (more…)

Anyone who’s ever tried to customize the Usplash theme that comes with Ubuntu knows that it’s a bit of pain. And if you’re trying to create your own theme, things just get a bit more difficult.

Enter Splashy, a boot splash manager with some very flexible features. One of the thing I like about it is that it does require any kernel patching and runs completely in userspace. And it supports 8bit, 16bit and 24bit framebuffers and TrueType fonts. Even better, its ridiculously easy to create themes for Splashy. (more…)