When the going gets tough, the tough sniff packets.
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Update 2011-09-18: This post is out of date. See the latest release here.
I’ve been maintaining my own hacked-up theme based on Tarski for several years now. This required modifying the theme source, which meant that every update to Tarski would overwrite my customisations. The better way to do this is to write a child theme.
Tags: wordpress
I regularly reformat my laptop. I do this when the latest Ubuntu release has major changes, such as the KDE4 upgrade and moving to ext4. I also do it after a change (or failure) of hard drive. This last time was the first time since switching to Evolution as my mail client. Imagine my surprise when I learned that just copying ~/.evolution wasn’t enough.
Tags: evolution
Update 2012-07-25: These instructions have been (mostly) superseded by a new version of this guide. Follow that document instead.
I recently acquired a TEMPer USB thermometer. It’s a cheap, convenient way to measure temperature in your server closet or machine room. My home “server closet” consists of the living room entertainment center, which is an enclosed wooden structure. It gets pretty hot, so I decided to track the ambient temperature with Cacti.
A few months ago, I hacked up a solution for secure locate and ecryptfs. Ian D. Allen suggested a better method, using a private per-user locate database rather than mucking with the system one. I’ve taken his suggestion.
Tags: encryption
Update 2012-03-27: keymap updated for XBMC 11.0 “Eden”.
I’ve been using a Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard on zuul, the new HTPC, for three weeks now. There are plenty of reviews online, which you should read if you are thinking of buying one. These are my notes on using it with XBMC and Ubuntu.
It’s been almost two years since I assembled gozer, my first HTPC. Over the Christmas holiday I replaced gozer with zuul, a Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11.
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