Recent Articles
Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
Sunday, May 3, 2009
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Kernighan
Projects
CD Clock
Basically, take a trip to Michaels, Walmart, Target, or any other place that has a crafts section. What you are looking out for is the clock guts. I got mine for around $7. You might be able to find them cheaper. Another item you are gonna need is a super glue. Make sure and pick some of that up. Lastly, dig through your collection of CDs and find one that's real pretty and not so scratched up.
Forgive me if I don't go into great detail on how to actually assemble this. If you can't figure it out, well, you shouldn't have the right to use a computer. Anyhow, here are some pictures.
January 2, 2005
View of the bes...
January 2, 2005
Head on view wi...
January 2, 2005
With surroundings.
CD ClockCD Clock
Sunday, January 2, 2005 by digitalpeer
If you're bored and you have a crap load of CDs and DVDs laying around that you haven't found a decent use for, this might kill two birds with one buckshot.Basically, take a trip to Michaels, Walmart, Target, or any other place that has a crafts section. What you are looking out for is the clock guts. I got mine for around $7. You might be able to find them cheaper. Another item you are gonna need is a super glue. Make sure and pick some of that up. Lastly, dig through your collection of CDs and find one that's real pretty and not so scratched up.
Forgive me if I don't go into great detail on how to actually assemble this. If you can't figure it out, well, you shouldn't have the right to use a computer. Anyhow, here are some pictures.
January 2, 2005
View of the bes...
January 2, 2005
Head on view wi...
January 2, 2005
With surroundings.
