Pseudorandom notes

This site

This site contains my pseudorandom notes about some stuff I am interested in. I hope there is something for you here as well. If you want to discuss something, please drop me an email (link is on the right).

If you want to re-publish my material, you are welcome to do that as long as you respect my license (see bottom of the page).

Linux

I use Linux since 1994. One of my home computers runs 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10. I also have an IBM T41 laptop running Debian unstable, and eeePC 900 running Debian testing. Until 2006 Linux was the one and the only operating system for me. Now I use Mac OS X a lot as well.

My favourite distribution is Debian. I had an affair with Ubuntu when it just appeared. At that time I was charmed; not any more. The quality of Ubuntu software releases became unsatisfactory. I will migrate my 64-bit Ubuntu computer to Debian as soon as I will have time. Really soon now.

LPC2103

Recently I bought a couple of LPC2103-based development boards from Embedded Artists: so called “Christmas tree” and “LPC2103 Education Board”.

LPC2103 is a microcontroller, based on ARM7TDMI-S core. It also has 32 KiB of flash memory and 8 KiB of RAM.

Both boards a powered by USB and provide USB-serial interface. They also have some nice stuff like leds, 7-segment indicator, 2x16 character LCD and small buzzer. It is a great fun to play with these boards.

Mac OS X

In 2006 I bought for myself an iBook G4 with 12” screen. My original motivation was to get some PowerPC-machine to play with. Surprisingly, in a few month I discovered that it became my main computer, and most tasks are moved there from my Linux box.

Since that I use Mac OS X for most “desktop” activities. I really like the combination of nice user interface and the possibility to run terminal and do what I want in a Unix way.

Currently I own “aluminium” 20” iMac and use it as my main computer. This text I'm typing in vim under Mac OS X. By old iBook G4 is still in use.

I like Objective C language, used for programming in Mac OS X environment. I worte and released small utility called MP3Names.

eeePC

I own Asus eeePC 900. It runs Debian Linux, testing. I use it mostly to take with me somewhere and to use fbreader.