Technology

Picked up a scanner tonight, as it’s the next step in the whole photo taking, archiving, etc process that we seem to have started into. I got the HP Scanjet 4570cxi [archive.org link]. It does 2400×2400, has a negative and slide attachment, can take a feeder system, and is USB 2.0. In buying this I […]

For no reason at all my net dropped around mid morning. Might be the firecard locking up. Shaw’s routers seem to ping-pong traceroutes back and forth between themselves if there’s nothing on an IP though, which makes figuring out that your own system isn’t up hard (wouldn’t the standard non-response to indicate a non-host be

Found this the other day, but forgot to post. For those of you who use GNUPG (GPG) you know how it’s a bit of a pain in the ass to go and download someone’s public key? Put the following code in your $HOME/.gnupg/options file: keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net keyserver-options “auto-key-retrieve” The keyserver can be whatever one you

Well, my trusty Kenwood KDC-MP8017 MP3-CD seems to be almost done. As I said earlier the flip face buttons only work if it’s in the halfway down position, which is useless. It’s also about 8m out of warranty, having been bought sometime in 2001. Oh well, that’s the way it goes anyway. So I stopped

When Iambe sent me a link to this page I viewed it and responded with simply “[censored, far too harsh language for my readers]“. My second response after this was “holy fucking shit”. Man, I thought my two monitor setup was kinda snazzy, and going for three would be just crazy! A bit of investigation

Oh god, I never want to see another windows boot screen again. I’ve been trying to fix some strange problems with the winbox (which didn’t get a hardware upgrade except for video and sound card, but that’s another long story). Basically these consist of it giving me a lovely BSOD a few seconds into it’s

I might be the last one to know this, but I just found a nifty feature in SSH. If you are logging into remote hosts with a different username from what you are using on the local system, and are doing that enough that typing the username each time is annoying, you can specify what

Just rediscovered a site I had put in my blogroll a while back but haven’t been visiting lately, codepoetry. In reading the author (name? who knows, no about link I could see.. bad blogger!) has some interesting points on how apple can increase market share. In short, by eliminating “Mac only” stores. While it’s cool

I’m pretty sure I haven’t muttered about this already, if I have I’m sorry. I was reading alt.sysadmin.recovery and found a good article entitled “Secret Bob Handshake” (thread) advocating a secret handshake that tech people could use to identify each other. This is nothing less than A Good Idea, and should be implemented as soon

As I read this article all I could think was “I could be this guy”. Sickening.