$50+ replacement part or half an hour with a screwdriver and a soldering iron? I’ll take the latter. And that’s how I fixed the Egglet’s aux line in. And, yes, I use a soldering iron with as much skill as a three year old dope fiend going through withdrawals after snorting a pound of French…
So among the tabs open in my browser currently: Office Space on IMDB A Google image search for “whale tail women” A Google image search for “unnaturally polish -nail -finger -toe” It’s been that sort of day. I don’t know what category it gets sorted into, mind, but whatever category that is, this day gets…
I’ve been thinking on this for a while and I’ve decided I want a web browser that does less. I don’t want one that suggests URLs based on my browsing history. I don’t want one that guesses what I’m looking for as I type into the address bar. I don’t want one that tries to…
I’ve replicated a goodly bit of build infrastructure at the home front now and have poked holes into the LAN so it is available to the outside world. It’s a bit exciting if you’re into this kind of thing. Confluence: http://fales.wales:8899/ Stash: http://fales.wales:7990/ Jenkins: http://fales.wales:8888/ Tomcat: http://fales.wales:8080 Apache: http://fales.wales Artifactory: Need to set up port…
So some time right before RAGBRAI I figured out that $CURRENTISP does not block out-going port 80 HTTP traffic. This immediately got my brain to wanting to shift my platform to something JSP-like running under Tomcat on a server in my basement. Needless to say, it is one of about five outstanding projects that I…
It’s days like today when I want to be all “hurf durf global warming buuurrrrnnnnnn” to my denier friends who hurf durf about snow (OMG!) and cold (in winter even!) but are conveniently weather ignorant on days like today: But instead I tell myself that weather does not equal climate, that the warming trend is…
I’m solving a variation of the Knight’s Tour Problem [1] with a little home coding project. I know the best way to solve this problem is a recursive function call. I also know the problem I’m trying to solve has three times the number of possibles at each stop. It’s a damn hairy recursive function.…
I’ve read far too much Neal Stephenson [1][2]. I genuinely believe the direction of the evolution of our social organization is bee lining directly toward burbclaves. Nation states will disappear because they are unable to compete against large, multinational corporations or criminal enterprises. [Obligatory joke of that being a distinction without a difference here]. The…
Joy! Mandatory online training courses! Of course I put it off until the last day. And now I suffer.
Not sure how many times I’ve been through the steps in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhMQIpCP1A. Most irritating to me is the way in which the bug in GRUB that doesn’t kill a boot process but throws a bunch of misleading errors was skipped over. Went down a bit rabbit hole on that when it turns out…