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my new video card came with a bumper sticker... O_o
@AdamLeahey probably drink it and quickly regret it
Dear Internet: What's the absolute cheapest, worst bourbon available? Don't worry, it's for science.
@ConstantineXVI: I'd say Wamu if it existed anymore. It was great when I had them in Cali, free checks and a good web site
@ConstantineXVI: oh, herf derf, just got the "getting shot at" remark :P
@ConstantineXVI: never heard of it... don't know too many people in the military though
@androidcentral: also, the Epic is $199 on Amazon with no rebates, but it's still showing as a "pre-order"
@ConstantineXVI: not sure about the first requirement, but I've yet to be shot at Chase
@ConstantineXVI and if I'm going to start a new series, I'd like to have it all on my Kindle...
@ConstantineXVI that's about how old my copy is. friend loaned it to me in high school... no idea where it's gotten off to
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Category Archives: Linux
Fast screenshot sharing in Linux
When I’m using Windows or OS X, I use a utility called Tinygrab to quickly share screenshots over the internet, whether it’s via Twitter, IM, email, etc. The concept is simple: you press a key combination, select a region of … Continue reading
Small, personal web servers
I recently helped my roommate shop for a small, personal web server. We wound up basing it on Intel’s Atom platform, and I was amazed at how cheap it was. The server (pictured above) came up to almost exactly $200, … Continue reading
Automatic offsite WordPress backups
Yesterday, I decided to set up a an automated backup solution for my site here. Basically, it does an sqldump then sends the dump to another server over SCP. First, I had to enable SSH login without a password in … Continue reading
Deluge turns 1.0!
Deluge 1.0.0 was just released, and will soon be is now available here http://launchpad.net/~deluge-team/+archive
Clusterf*ck: Mass Virtualization
Sometime after I get back to Kentucky, I’m thinking of building a server for running virtual machines using VMware Server 2.0. The idea is to virtualize as many of my machines as possible. Virtual servers, in particular, benefit from this … Continue reading
Ubuntu Netbook Remix
There’s been a fair amount of news online about Canonical’s specialized version of Ubuntu for Atom based laptops, but the current word on it is that Canonical will only be licensing it directly to OEMs. However, there is a PPA … Continue reading
Easy SSH Tunneling
Whenever I work out of the San Francisco office, I have to tunnel back to my workstation in Palo Alto in order to do any development. The way I do this is with an SSH Tunnel. While I used to … Continue reading
Always lock down your mod_proxy
So, my server had been eating bandwidth for breakfast, and I finally found out why. I was using apache’s mod_proxy to redirect incoming connections across the network, but that was being hijacked by some ad agencies and being used as … Continue reading
Cervantes Lives! And other fun tales
Cervantes is back online, at least for the time being. I’m going to take this opportunity to write a few things. So much has happened since my last post. Obviously, the main thing is my internship. I’m now almost three … Continue reading
T61p works great with Linux
Model: Lenovo Thinkpad T61p 6459-CTO Distro: Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz The CPU runs fast and cool. While idling, it stays somewhere between 40 and 50 Celsius, and goes up to about 60C under … Continue reading