Joshua D. Boyd

Author: jdboyd

  • David on Easter

  • HTPC

    Back in September, I posted about evaluating an Intel D510MO board for HTPC applications, and determined that it wasn’t good enough. Now, I am trying again with an Atom 330 / ION motherboard. This is a slower CPU, but a faster Nvida graphics chipset. Last September it still wouldn’t have done the job, but as…

  • OCZ SSD in my Toshiba laptop.

    I put a OCZ Vertex 2 60 Gig SSD in my Toshiba laptop. It really is fast. Booting is pretty quick, although I don’t do much of that. Chrome and Thunderbird launch quickly although, again, I mostly just leave them running all the time. Beyond that, I hope it helps battery life, but since I…

  • How I Setup Ubuntu 10.10

    I’ve found myself doing this 3 times in the last month. I thought I would write up what I do so that I don’t have to try to remember the next time I need to do this (which probably won’t be all that soon). First, I do a basic install from the live CD. Then…

  • Progress

    I’ve been working on two projects. Well, one project with a sub project. And I switched jobs (more soon). I have a web app that I’ve been working on updating to be ajax’y. It is a feed reader (think Google Reader). I originally forked feedonfeeds when it was going through a period of being abandoned.…

  • Replaced the touchscreen on a HTC Droid Eris

    I got a free HTC Droid Eris with a broken touch screen. The LCD seemed to operate without issue. The glass touch screen in front was badly cracked, but still fully functional. I looked on line and found that replacement touch screens are a little under $50, and I found a YouTube video that made…

  • Deb @ Home

  • PodTrack

    This is a little command line utility for downloading podcasts into a directory. This can make for easy rsyncing to a flash card, or listening with a command line audio player. Find it at: https://github.com/jd-boyd/Podtrack I use it.  I don’t think anyone else does.  It prints a large amount of crap when running, which I…

  • C++ Message Passing (overview, between threads)

    Having installed Google Analytics two months ago, I now know that the two most popular search phrases that people use to get here from Google are “elisp hex” and “c++ message passing”.  There isn’t much more to say about using hex in elisp, but I’m sure that there is more to say about C++ message…

  • GitHub

    Did I mention that I’m now on GitHub? See: https://github.com/jd-boyd I figured that would be easier that uploading raw source code into WordPress. I could always post my own git archives, but GitHub provides online browsing nice visualization features, so I finally joined the crowd.