A long time ago, Eye-Fi came to market. It wasn’t cheap at the time, but was a really neat concept. You take a picture with your camera, and voila, it’s on the web. Super cool. I’ve been doing more photography lately, and it’d be awfully convenient to have this kind of feature, so I was [...]
My friend Steve is looking to setup LDAP at work, and I’ve done it twice now, so I figured I’d throw out a simple bit on how I got it working. This is for use with SSH, Apache, and as an address book. For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll be using Fedora/CentOS package names.
First, [...]
I made a deal to sell my Dr. Who pinball machine yesterday. I’ve had it since I lived in Atlanta, where I purchased it in 2002. I’ve enjoyed the game, but alas, it’s time for it to find a new owner who will play it more than I do, now that I have so many [...]
I’m not sure if it is a GNOME default or an Ubuntu default, but in the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha, my numeric keypad was not working. Further examination showed that it was working perfectly, as an alternate mouse movement device. That’s not nearly as useful to me. Thankfully, reading a little bit led me to [...]
After mucking around all morning with Fedora 11, I ended up putting Ubuntu 9.04 onto a disk so that I’d have something to work with tomorrow.
It’s not that Fedora 11 is bad, but it’s different. Different in that way where you switch which cabinets have the cups and plates, and you’re just annoyed that you [...]
I spent a good chunk of today finally repairing some WPC driver boards that have been sitting around since Thanksgiving of last year. The parts I needed arrived, and I was able to get them off my plate. Being that most pinball machines owned by individuals these days were at one time on a location [...]
So, there was some sticky gunk on this hard drive, and Goo Gone was taking it’s sweet time. Time to whip out the manly chemicals: in this case, VM&P Naphtha. It worked to take the adhesive off, but as you can see, it took a little more than it’s fair share.
Or at least, it hates me.
I’ve been tasked with getting OOo 3.0.x up and running on some servers at work. Servers that don’t have X11, of course. Why? Because apparently it’s the best conversion engine around on Linux systems for reading .docx and the other newer Microsoft Office formats.
OpenOffice includes a -headless switch that supposedly [...]
While I realize that it’s not within everyone’s means, working on open source projects means you want to help others. Helping others includes doing at least some work to test across platforms (especially 32 vs 64 bit, where appropriate).
Why isn’t there a distro out there that makes it trivially simple to set up VM’s of [...]
A nice short domain that isn’t owned by a domain squatter, but which never sees updates. That makes me sad, so I’m going to try to screw around with this WordPress thing and see if maybe I can contribute some more useful bits to the ‘net.
