Force carbonating soda at home
matt | January 31, 2010
These things are neat. The flavors pretty well suck, but using a fruit juice concentrate or some lime juice or something is quite nice.
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Is network mounted /usr/local obsolete?
matt | January 30, 2010
It used to be that, back in the day, /usr/local was an NFS mount on a central server, with appropriate trickery so that each machine got the correct binaries for its architecture. This allowed for reduced storage requirements, plus easy upgrades of new applications. I question if this is an idea which has basically become [...]
Do you have your tickets….
matt | January 30, 2010
to the gun show?
Lizzy, my father in law and I went to the Saratoga gun show today. Of note:
Ammo prices to be back down to reasonably sane levels.
Several vendors had black rifles, with prices being reasonable. New SR 556 and Sig 556 rifles were in the $1500 range. I didn’t see a Sig 516, but [...]
Gamers Helping Haiti
matt | January 20, 2010
A $20 donation gets you a pile of PDF downloads. Linky. More info
