While trying to convince a corrupt memory card to work I discovered something interesting about the N800.

It’s got a small magnet on the back of the battery cover which pokes into the square hole next to the internal memory card. Opening the cover causes a kernel log message and the memory card to be unmounted.

There’s also a small switch in the flap that shuts off the other memory card slot when you open it. This one is quite obvious as the N800 only recognises new cards when you close the flap.

I did wonder how they made it so we could just remove memory cards without having to unmount them…

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/openhdtv/

Quote:
In 2012, analogue television services will be switched off. It is likely that Ofcom (the regulator) will sell the radio frequencies (parts of the radio spectrum) that the analogue channels used to mobile phone companies. We believe that Britain still needs to be the world leader in broadcasting. As a result of allocating these frequencies to HDTV (High-definition television) broadcasts we think that Britain can continue to lead the world in television in the same way that John Logie Baird did in the 1930s. Countries such as America and Australia are already rolling out this technology but Britain has been left behind because of the lack of spectrum space.

Rather than the traditional past time of bending the legs off, turning them into keyrings or leaving them on the floor pin-side up why not do something more creative with all your old chips?

Most people who’ve had a PC for more than six months will somewhere in their house have a box of junk. Amongst the millions of miles of IEC power leads and IDE cables there are probably some old CPUs that were once cutting edge.

Dig them out and do something useful with them, like make a trivet

Visit the Evil Mad Scientist Lab to find out how.

What happens when you combine the Nigerian 419 scam and Monty Python? Something very very funny, that’s what. Just click the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyrzQldOKE