I just got my first Apple iPod. Yes, me with an iPod. Don’t ask. It’s the latest Nano, the 5th generation, available since late 2009.…
When fixing or customizing skates, a very common problem is having to deal with riveted parts. Rivets are cheaper than screws, and are a lot…
This is a hard shell skate from 1997 (guessing from the 1996 manufacturing year of the plastic shell), which is known to be a very…
Downhill is a niche segment in the inline skate industry, making it often hard to find good equipment, so it’s with great pleasure that we’ve…
The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Yes, I already wrote that in my last…
The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Here is a simple variation I’ve made, where…
I’m proud to introduce www.wikinline.net : Worldwide Information and Knowledge of Inline skates. A collaborative reference of inline skates focused on technical details. Something I…
I was having problems with my home DSL gateway device a few months ago. It was an old-ish Netgear device which had been running fine…
I’ve just wasted a couple of hours trying to get a FreeNX server working, but just kept getting this error : Not very explicit, not…
It breaks my heart to see great old skates being thrown away. This is what was about to happen to these Roces LAX (Los Angeles)…
Most GNU/Linux distributions include the proper mime types to be handled by Xine when it is installed, but not for DVD Video ISO images on…
Here are some instructions on how to configure a computer using Fedora for image or video slideshows. The idea is to have the computer automatically…
The bazaar documentation is quite extensive, but not when it comes to setting up an ssh server. The solution for allowing bzr+ssh access to a…
I just received the Sennheiser PXC 450 headphones I ordered online. One morning in the office, I just couldn’t stand the ambient noise of all…
I needed some SFF (Small Form Factor) computers for a project, and Dell recently released the FX160 which looked exactly like what I was after.…
We’ve waited years (literally) for this skate to come out. Here are my impressions. First, I have to admit that like everyone who has seen…
Here are my Seba (Universkate) FR1 skates from the very first batch (end of 2006, I think) with their current customisations. Only the outer shell…
I did it. I bought a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD player yesterday… then I bought a couple of Blu-Ray video discs earlier today (Superbad and Stranger…
I just wasted hours trying to figure out how to upgrade a Cisco Catalyst 3750 using the .bin image instead of the .tar archive, since…
I ran into a chicken and egg problem recently, while trying to configure Xen’s bridging interfaces on top of bonding interfaces. This setup is for…