From the monthly archives: July 2010

Film: Inception

By Rufus Pollock On July 30, 2010 · 1 Comment

5/10. Beautiful but completely empty, without significant emotional or intellectual substance and very little of the crucial ingredient for any thriller: suspense.

The conception was neat, and executed with much visual flair but the key elements of plot and characterisation that would have served to involve the viewer more deeply seemed to have got lost [...]

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Set Trackpad Sensitivity for Thinkpad on Ubuntu

By Rufus Pollock On July 11, 2010 · 1 Comment

On a Lenovo Thinkpad the trackpad is the red button that acts as a mouse. To set the sensistivity and speed of your trackpad on for ubuntu/debian linux do (as root):

echo -n 180 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/speed echo -n 250 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/sensitivity

To have these applied every time you user the computer (probably what you want!) [...]

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