It’s important to me that my blog support OpenID for commenting under the posts. For the past few months, I have had some database problems which have kept this fine tool from working. It seems to be working currently, but I have only done limited testing. For those with OpenID accounts, please [...]
A couple recent posts have started on the Utah Open Source Planet regarding popd and pushd not being available on a default Ubuntu install. As discovered, popd and pushd are shell built-ins for the BASH shell, and not provided by the Debian Almquist Shell (DASH). Why has Ubuntu made the change from BASH [...]
I’m a HUGE fan of AdBlock Plus coupled with EasyList, the awesome extension for Firefox. The reason being? I hate seeing ads on websites.
Not that I have anything against advertising. I don’t. I watch the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the World Series and even the Heavyweight Title Bout just for [...]
If you have read my blog in the past, you might have learned a little about my network, and the hostnames of the computers that reside therein. The idea is simple, yet sadistic:
I put on an elaborate play, in which I play the main character Zeus, and the computers in my network are Greek [...]
Little did I know, that on my birthday just 3 days ago, the Das Keyboard crew released version 3 of their fabulous tactile keyboard. Major highlights? 2 USB 2.0 ports on the right side of the keyboard, blue LEDs, glossy finish, and the ability to purchase a Das Keyboard with inscriptions on the [...]
cat /dev/zero | tr ‘\0′ ‘\377′ | dd of=aaron bs=1 count=31
Tomorrow is my birthday, so yesterday, my wife and I went to a local electronics store, and purchased a 1 TB hard drive to store family photos, videos and other data. The only requirement, is that the drive’s filesystem be compatible with both Mac OS X, and Ubuntu 8.04. I figured this was [...]
Remember the old saying “What goes up must come down”, referring to the gravitational pull? Well, I have a similar saying for firewalls: What goes out can come back in. This is a cool SSH trick that will stump even the most seasoned network administrators.
The trick is port forwarding. The idea is [...]
Today, I had the need to transfer a great deal of data from my wifes old iBook to my T61. As I sat down, I plugged in my USB 2.0 hard drive, and begin transferring the data. 3 minutes later, it’s finished. Now, to plug it in to my T61 and repeat [...]
