There is this burger shop near my home that makes the most amazing burgers, fries and shakes. Bar none. The burgers, of which there is quite the variety, each have their own “secret sauce” that gives each burger its own unique flavor. The fries also have various dipping sauces you can order, each of which [...]
In mutt, you can setup multiple accounts, and use account hooks (complete with key bindings) to change to those accounts. I have a Gmail account and a work account. In my Gmail account, I use goobook to access my Google Contacts, and I can successfully tab-complete the addresses when composing mail. But, I have not [...]
Someone is purchasing our house, and we have to be out by the 28th of November. We will not be in our new house until Dec 3rd, at the earliest. During that week, I don’t know where to host my server to maintain a constant connection. Hopefully, I can find a solution, but worst case [...]
If you have an Android device with a camera, you can install the ZXing Barcode scanner [1] which supports the following method. It is my understanding, however, that other barcode scanners do not support this, so as cool as this is, it may only serve a very limited audience. The ZXing app doesn’t even support [...]
From http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/greater-choice-for-wireless-access.html: We’re introducing a method that lets you opt out of having your wireless access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point’s settings and change the wireless network name (or SSID) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “Network,” you’d need to [...]
Some of the roles I fill at work are: storage architecture, cloud engineering, system administration and backend coding. When approaching my tasks head on, it’s always important to me that standards are adhered to. From PEP coding style to adhering to an RFC for mail server. Unfortunately, I think I’m a dying breed, or something, [...]
