I think I’m so used to working with ancient hardware that runs on cryptic incantations and relies on knowledge that was lost to the ages before I was born that I sometimes forget that it doesn’t always have to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a cheap Chinese made adjustable bench power supply at home that I bought during a group by at my local hackerspace. It does 0-18V up to 3A and came in at $60, as a budding electronics tinkerer it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
3200 I picked up a tube of 10 ATMega328 microcontrollers for an embedded project I’m working on. I’d wired everything up Wednesday on a breadboard according to this guide with the intent of then connecting my original Arduino Duemillanove and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second worst thing about this time of year is the static charges that build up due to the complete lack of humidity. The worst thing about this time of year for a geek is the hardware you kill because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Disabling a udev rule that calls part of libata and does some other magic seems to prevent the HSM Violation. This is a temporary workaround until the kernel bug is resolved. Infohere. For the record, this is on an Acer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Netbook, SSD, Error, Violated
A few months ago I was having issues with the keyboard on my Netbook. I found some keys just simply took more pressure than others to register a hit and I found that results of my typing looked like I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve found FireFox3 to be rather slow on mouse and a bit of reading shows that it’s primarily due to how disk i/o heavy FF3 is. SQLite backed this and that, it’s more than the poor little SSD can take. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I ended up migrating what was left of my colocated machines onto a single VM. Had about 5 minutes notice before I decided to pull the trigger and with that in mind I have to say it went fairly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All of which I want to finish, none of which probably will be. I think Ze is right, if you have a neat idea just throw it out there now. To hell with trying to release it when it’s ready […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years and years ago, when I first started playing with linux and teaching myself networking I built up a PC to use as a router at home. It was based on the family’s old desktop, a Pentium 2 233 w/64 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And it looks like I got the new release of xp, which is XP SP2C. I should have realised something was awry when I notice that it was a new sticker style for the license key, but I didn’t clue […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While catching up on the month of podcasts I somehow spaced on, came a cross an episode of Security Now that mentioned ctupdate from Heise Security. Essentially, you pick what products you want to create an update disc for, then […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dave read a book! A fiction book! Last night I finished reading “Variable Star”, by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. And by finished, I mean yesterday morning I was less than half-done. After I’d done laundry and dinner and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
