If the vice president was peanut butter?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in blurt | 3 Comments »I had a dream last night that I was the president of the US, dressed in the usual garb, and my right-hand man, the vice president, was a jar of talking peanut butter. I remember saying "Whatever it is, that's not ...
ubuntu+intel865+westinghouse L2046NV
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in blurt | 1 Comment »After 2 hours of nonsense, I came across mode lines for xorg.conf that work with my L2046NV 21" display made by westinginghouse. modeline "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync modeline "1400x1050@75" 155.85 1400 ...
SSH login using LDAP Authentication
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 6 Comments »Round and round the web I went, looking for a way to allow a user to SSH into a linux box using an LDAP login (actually an AD account, but it's all the same when it comes to this scenario). I ...
vista… vista… vista…
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in blurt | 1 Comment »So I just set up a Windows Vista box and let me say the User Access Control stuff can be quite the pain (if you're a computer-oriented person, I'm sure you've read the woes). I wanted to start putty's command line guy, ...
i heart this
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 1 Comment »return [alist for alist in listlists if alist.find(pattern) != -1] it's my favorite pythonism. and remember... sed is your friend. no matter what he acts like.
moving from mac to mac…
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 1 Comment »Today I moved everything on my macbook pro to another macbook pro because I apparently jumped the gun and assumed that the notebook that I signed for was the one ordered for me... luckily it wasn't that big of a deal. I used the ...
dude.. gmail wordpress.. wtf
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 1 Comment »
blogging by email wasn't working at all... it wasn't parsing the body of the email so the post had a title but no content. I found a fix (lets hope - this is the actual test).. Set the encoding to UTF-8 ...
lets make a tunnel!
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 2 Comments »I'm sitting on an unsecure wireless network and I'd like to send my traffic back to the office so I whipped out....
alas! he returns!
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 Posted in blurt | 2 Comments »Welcome back, gang. I'm starting this again to help document interesting things I deal with in the realm of technology and probably some other nonsense. I'm trying out this "blog-by-email" feature, too, so that's going to simplify posting. Alright. That ...