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Amarok 2.2 – Without KDE on Gentoo

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Rewrote this after the comment from Leo and some work getting my Amarok install done properly.
Amarok 1.4 has been my favorite media player for years. It rocks. In the early days it was unstable but we can forgive in development software for that.
I gave 2.0 a try in the svn head days when nothing at [...]

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Input Lag

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Input lag is the time it takes for a display to successfully get an image or frame from the moment the signal enters the display to your eyes. This is what causes the majority of the sync issues experienced with video games or voices on an LCD (or as this post will show, several other [...]

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Lenovo 31P8950 Keyboard Mini-review

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Seemingly a near perfect combination of trackpoint, three mouse buttons, ThinkPad keyboard and numpad, I had high hopes for the Lenovo 31P8950 (a.k.a. 41A5091). But it’s just another case of Lenovo cutting corners since they took on the ThinkPad brand.
The good:

TrackPoint mouse!
Generally well balanced layout.
No shrinkage of CTRL or ALT for a mostly useless Windows [...]

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