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nedrichardson WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do

ChromeOS firmware has a bunch of this built in - it's super cool. https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/chromebooks-iden... and https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1pyojjd/comme... and https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA... is where I found out about it. A lot of the clever capabilities rely on the firmware that you have. Source - having spent a while a few weeks back getting Codex to poke at this topic on my machine https://github.com/nedrichards/whatcable-linux/blob/main/doc... since framework do reuse parts of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller in their firmware.

nedrichardson Google Now on your iPhone and iPad

Press the i button in the top right hand corner of the card. Select 'Transportation Mode' from the expander. Select from Driving, Public Transport, Walking, Cycling etc.

nedrichardson Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS

[n.b. I work for Intel on MeeGo]

MeeGo Netbook uses Clutter. It also supports Qt applications. Other products from our partners have used Clutter and I would expect them to use Clutter in the future.

nedrichardson Gnome Shell updates for 3.2

I can guarantee that it works pretty well on the ExoPC.

nedrichardson Rhapsody passes on Apple's "economically untenable" sub plans

They are now offered in the Android Kindle application as well.

nedrichardson Understanding Today's Skype Outage: Explaining Supernodes

So much so that they actually licenced the Joltid technology that they spun out of Kazaa. There was a lawsuit:

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2009/11/joltid_settlement.html

There were in fact several lawsuits related to licencing this stuff.

nedrichardson RIM kicks Kik off Blackberries: Revokes keys, disables push

Sole carrier with Skype in the USA.

nedrichardson LibreOffice tells Oracle to fork off

Go-OO is maintained as a series of patches which can be applied independently by distributions to add or remove features; this is intended to replace the OOo project entirely.

Or, to try and use a historical analogy, this is the tipping point from 'a patchy server' to Apache.

nedrichardson Why Japan Is Doomed

Yes. And since I lived in the UK my government impounded Icelandic owned assets up to their value[1] to pay me back my money. Yay for international relations!

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/318519...

nedrichardson The New Kindle DX "Graphite"

I believe Amazon use AT&T's roaming relationships rather than having to do deals with operators in each country, so the device is always using roaming data when it's not in the USA, thus the reason they turn off some of the features that use more bandwidth for international users.