{Kristian Grimsby}

gnome-shell Macbook/applesmc keyboard brightness extension 1

Jul

2012

So, since this needs a bit of hacking – because of permission and such, I decided to put up a small howto on how to add an extension to gnome-shell where you can set the keyboard brightness. First off we need to setup a bash-script who takes care of the keyboard-backlight settings. The following script ...

applesmc read fail on mid-2012 Macbooks 2

Jul

2012

The error is simple “applesmc: read arg fail” – this happens when trying to modprobe the applesmc module. [ 46.584969] applesmc: LSSB: read arg fail [ 46.672745] applesmc: LSSB: read arg fail [ 46.759992] applesmc: : read arg fail [ 46.847830] applesmc: : read arg fail [ 46.935599] applesmc: : ...

Recover a broken/partitioned/whatever harddrive(external or internal) 1

Aug

2010

So, who HAS NOT experienced a harddrive crash?! The answer is likely no one(either they know it or not). The Problem Since I experienced this lately I thought I write a tiny howto, to easy the pain and suffering for you. What happened to me was that I got delivered an external USB harddrive(WD 500GB ...

How to get system-information with dmidecode

Jun

2010

Ever wondered what kind of RAM your system supports? Or maybe you can’t remember your motherboard brand or model? Well, luck you, linux has a perfect tool for finding this information. First, let’s have a look at what we actually can find out: Type Information ──────────────────────────────────────── 0 BIOS 1 System 2 Base Board 3 Chassis ...

Apple iPad – Problems And Solutions

May

2010

So, received my new iPad and thought I would post some guides on how to work around different problems I encountered. Air Video on Ubuntu So I found this lovely app that enabled me to live convert and stream my videos from my computer(s) to my iPad! So excited I took a closer look and ...

Microsoft kills “Courier”

May

2010

As most of you read on both Gizmodo and Engadget, Microsoft has terminated the “Courier” project. To be really honest, the “Courier” and “Nadal” are pretty much the only exciting and innovative projects Microsoft had going for them, at least from a gadget-geek-perspective. So I’m not trying to hide my disappointment when they terminated the ...

Ubuntu on ASUS UL30VT 13

May

2010

So, lately theres been a fair few problems with the UL30VT. This is a post to compile the general solutions to especially the hybrid graphics cards. This guide is intended to the new Ubuntu release Lucid Lynx(10.04 LTS), but would probably work for the Karmic(9.10) release too. Hybrid Graphics – The problem First off, the ...

OpenGL and CG Shaders – introduction

Jun

2009

I wanted to write a little introduction on how to setup and use the nVidia CG Toolkit and start creating some shaders for first and most OpenGL, who cares about D3D anyway?!? Getting the toolkit Head over to nVidias CG site and fetch the toolkit from there. Remember to get latest version! What else do ...

Zend PHP Certifications

Jun

2009

As I hope you all know Zend is a big contributer within the PHP community. They provide debugging, server enhancement and framework to support your PHP-development. Since it has stated such a huge reputation within the PHP-circle, I figured I’ll go ahead and take a PHP5 certification. Also I don’t have any education underlying my ...

OpenGL without the glaux library on Visual Studio(Replacement code)

Jun

2009

I’ve been doing a lot of 3D programming lately, mostly due to assignments at school…yey! I started googling a fair bit for the glaux library to work under Visual Studio, but found soon enough out that the library was obsolete at this stage. So I thought I would post some replacement code for the many ...