matt | January 31, 2009
So, in general, I like it. The keyboard is a little odd, and I find myself hitting “s” instead of “a”, and it's hard to find some of the keys. Also, the 4GB stock hard drive isn't big enough (my email dir alone is 1.1GB), so I ordered a 16GB SD card and will put [...]
matt | January 28, 2009
In regards to this, it wasn't a scam. I do owe the town money, they say that is all the money that I owe them, and the reason I never got it is because they sent it to the old address and somehow it never was forwarded on. Of course, according to state law, I [...]
matt | January 28, 2009
So, I broke down and bought a netbook. Specifically, a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. In the end, for this use case, price wins over build quality, so I went with the absolute cheapest one I could find, at $230. (Okay, not quite true – I opted for the extra 512MB of RAM at $240). The [...]
matt | January 26, 2009
Okay, so I apparently forgot something really important in this post (since edited to add the information), namely that if you don't modify /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and update the initramfs, your machine doesn't boot. See, that's the problem with Unix machines. You hotplug in some hardware, leave the thing up for six months (this one has been [...]
matt | January 25, 2009
I know I harp on this a lot, and make broad, sweeping statements about “Windows is insecure as a side-effect of its design and it's really hard to make it secure without breaking stuff”. Well, don't take my word for it, read what this guy, who used to write adware says. Specifically, things like: At [...]
matt | January 20, 2009
On Saturday, I got a letter from a law office in Rhode Island saying that I owed the town of South Kingstown $60 excise tax on my car. On the face of it, this makes sense – I did live there, and I did own the vehicle at the time. But, it's sketchy. I mean, [...]
matt | January 19, 2009
It's a miniatures game where (miniature) giant monsters fight and destroy a city. Awesome premise.
matt | January 18, 2009
Dynamic Forwarding: – Sets up an SSH proxy on your local machine which proxies traffic to an outside machine http://blog.electricjellyfish.net/2006/03/dynamicforward-where-have-you-been-all.html Proxying about: – SSH to a machine via other machines. This is very useful when hitting machines through the one machine with port 22 forwarded to it. Sure, you can specify an alternate port, but [...]
matt | January 18, 2009
I will be attending Cold Wars this year. If anyone else is planning on being there, let me know. Hopefully, there will not be a repeat of the beef jerky incident of last year.
matt | January 18, 2009
In my college chemistry 101, I spoke with the professor after class one day about a goofy theory I had. “Isn't it possible to somehow spiral electrons into the nucleus of an atom and pair them with protons thus canceling out the charges and creating neutrons – helium to isotopes of hydrogen, or multiple hydrogens [...]
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