In the beginning there was the swamp, the hoe, – and Jussi!

Well Ive been away for the last 4 days or I would have blogged about this sooner, but Last week I went and bought a shiny new PC. The old one was getting a bit slow and annoying, and it was time to upgrade.

So I went out and bought a nice load of components and build a beautiful new machine.

It includes:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
ASUS P5Q Motherboard
ASUS Nvidia 9500GT 512mb DDR3 Graphics card
Samsung 22x DVD Writer
LC6550GP “Green Power” Power supply
Nexus Caterpillar Silent System case
320GB Seagate HDD
4GB Kingston RAM

Overall I’m incredibly happy with it, its fast, quiet and works great with Linux. I’m running Intrepid Kubuntu with KDE4 (which is beautiful, just wish they would fix/replace that mess that is konqueror) with my old dual head setup and it works a charm.

And the obligatory photo

I have both an nokia N800 and an N95. they are great little gadgets, but the N95 screen is a little too small for effective in car GPS work. So I decided to have a look at the map program that comes with the latest Diablo software for the N800. Initially I had a few problems with it – the main one being that I could not download the maps as I had insufficient space on my internal memory card. I coudnt find anywhere to change the download location and this had me stumped for a while.

However I ended up moving the maps directory to the external 2 GB memory card, and this seemed to do the trick. Once the scandinavia maps were downloaded, it was now the challenge of trying to get the 2 devices to talk to each other. After much googling, and a small amount of cursing, I found this post, which detailed a free (as in beer) program called Symarctic ExtGPS which works a dream over the bluetooth. I now have to purchase navigation if I wish to have actual navigation services, but at the moment this is enough.