Tag: computers

  • overriding usb charging current in linux?

    Asking here because I can’t think of where I should post, and because I’m tired of people on various IRC channels completely misunderstanding the question, and because I know a few people from RIM read this: The goal here is to charge my Blackberry by plugging it into a USB host running Linux. The problem […]

  • geekery: centos, RSI prevention

    <geekery> I’ve been using CentOS 4, a freely-redistributable build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, on a bunch of new servers at work lately, and I’m impressed with the fit and finish. Until now I’ve been using Fedora Core, and while it’s been fine, it moves a bit fast for me — product lifetimes measured […]

  • Random update

    I had something I was going to post about, but I can’t remember what it is. If I do I’ll let you know. I remember part of it: I picked up DDR Extreme 2 and a mat for the PS2 this weekend. Whee! I’ve never played DDR before (but I knew what to expect, at […]

  • radio livejournal

    The line between mundane and awesome is a fine one, and I think this falls on the “awesome” side. Brad has thrown together Radio LiveJournal, which is to phone posts what the LJ images feed is to images posted in journal entries. It just keeps streaming one phone post after another. No-one uses phone posts […]

  • admire the width of my band!

    My web, mail, and DNS hosting is at Dreamhost. It’s a pretty good provider; certainly not enterprise-class and there’s been a couple of times I’ve had to have discussions with support about why something was their problem and not mine, but for personal or small-business shared hosting, it works out pretty well. Multiple shell users, […]

  • hold on, i can look that up

    A list of things that I have wondered about while not at home, from the Wikipedia pages in the URL history of my Blackberry: Adult Swim Apple Baseball Citric acid Couscous Dacquoise Lever Little Feat Mortadella Ottawa Praline Tour de France I wonder why I was looking up Little Feat?

  • ntdsutil auth restore subtree

    One amusing element of a major outage on the last day before Christmas holidays — on which a lot of people bring their kids in to work — is a lot of “Fuck! Crap! Uh, oops, sorry.” We now have a few system administrators, myself included, going “Rats!” when things don’t work out. It’s sort […]

  • Automatic Threadless wallpaper generator

    I realized while browsing through Threadless’s catalog the other day that while there are only a handful of designs there that I’d like to wear, pretty much all of them with suitable background colors would make great computer wallpaper. But since there were hundreds I liked, I didn’t want to have to edit all of […]