Friday, August 31, 2012
Looks like my Linux desktop box has been hacked and is now hitting a local mail server with all s...
Looks like my Linux desktop box has been hacked and is now hitting a local mail server with all sorts of SMTP. Makes today's shirt of choice all too ironic.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Reshared post from Doug Couch $5 Arduino kit coming together. Lafayette Tech Labs meeting on M...
$5 Arduino kit coming together. Lafayette Tech Labs meeting on Monday we will be etching boards.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I was just sent this from a Solaris server (in case that matters): Your "cron" job on lab rm /hom...
I was just sent this from a Solaris server (in case that matters):
Your "cron" job on lab
rm /home/jacoby/Test/*.Rout &> /dev/null
produced the following output:
/home/jacoby/Test/*.Rout: No such file or directory
Now, if I put &> /dev/null, isn't the announcement that there's no *.Rout files in ~/Test/ to be deleted supposed to be sent to /dev/null and not to me? And if not, what should I put?
Your "cron" job on lab
rm /home/jacoby/Test/*.Rout &> /dev/null
produced the following output:
/home/jacoby/Test/*.Rout: No such file or directory
Now, if I put &> /dev/null, isn't the announcement that there's no *.Rout files in ~/Test/ to be deleted supposed to be sent to /dev/null and not to me? And if not, what should I put?
I'm enrolled in Coursera's Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. I've done a few Coursera course...
I'm enrolled in Coursera's Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. I've done a few Coursera courses, and I stopped doing anything with them after a few weeks. Anyone here planning to take this?
https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
Monday, August 27, 2012
OK, I need a 556 timer ( ~$2 at Radio Shack ), 2 x linear pots ( ~$3 each ). What more do I need ...
OK, I need a 556 timer ( ~$2 at Radio Shack ), 2 x linear pots ( ~$3 each ). What more do I need to get to make one of these? He doesn't include a parts list and I don't really read schematics yet.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I don't normally crow about weight loss here. It just isn't the forum for me. Facebook is where I...
I don't normally crow about weight loss here. It just isn't the forum for me. Facebook is where I talk about my health, Google+ is where I talk about my toys. (In part, that's because I can get my toys to tell Facebook how much I've run, but you cannot automatically post to G+.)
But this shirt has spent the whole of the 21st century in the back of my closet because it was too tight around the gut on me. Until now. Yes, I'm still pear-shaped, but the shirt fits. Yay me!
But this shirt has spent the whole of the 21st century in the back of my closet because it was too tight around the gut on me. Until now. Yes, I'm still pear-shaped, but the shirt fits. Yay me!
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The teensy is in the speaker compartment. The USB cable is through the side of the battery chambe...
The teensy is in the speaker compartment. The USB cable is through the side of the battery chamber. The case mod is done. I am happy.
And, as is only right and good, I release my code. Because I basically got the 10 lines from the ...
And, as is only right and good, I release my code. Because I basically got the 10 lines from the documentation and the one addition I do was "If KEY_CAPS_LOCK works, will KEY_SCROLL_LOCK? _YES!!!_", I think doing more than a Guthrie license ("Anyone who uses this code is a friend of mine") or a Crowley license ("Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the license") would be incredibly presumptuous.
IOGear, and any other company out there, if you're on a product page and click "support", why are...
IOGear, and any other company out there, if you're on a product page and click "support", why are you pushed to a general support page where you have to re-search your product? I know what product I need support for; I was on that page when I clicked "support"!
I found this page, which seems to tell me that the one key I need, Scroll Lock, is out of bounds....
I found this page, which seems to tell me that the one key I need, Scroll Lock, is out of bounds. Please, someone, tell me I'm wrong.
I can clearly send text now. Here's some now. HI That's "Keyboard.write( 72 ) ; Keyboard.write( 7...
I can clearly send text now. Here's some now.
HI
That's "Keyboard.write( 72 ) ; Keyboard.write( 73 ) ;"
Problem is, "Scroll Lock" is the character I need, and I don't think it's strictly ASCII. Can anyone tell me how to have a Teensy programmed through Arduino to spit out a Scroll Lock character?
HI
That's "Keyboard.write( 72 ) ; Keyboard.write( 73 ) ;"
Problem is, "Scroll Lock" is the character I need, and I don't think it's strictly ASCII. Can anyone tell me how to have a Teensy programmed through Arduino to spit out a Scroll Lock character?
Monday, August 20, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Good analysis, getting deeper at the "Worse is Better" question. I've known about that original e...
Good analysis, getting deeper at the "Worse is Better" question. I've known about that original essay for over a decade (through JWZ) but I never thought it through to this level.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Anybody up in here masterful with the Mantis bug tracker? I want to be able to automatically get ...
Anybody up in here masterful with the Mantis bug tracker? I want to be able to automatically get all my unresolved issues so I can schedule email reminders to myself. What I can get from RSS seems to be everybody's issues, resolved or no.
There is an XML export, but I think you have to be at that page first, and chasing that down with LWP seems like a time-wasting, yak-shaving PITA. Help?
There is an XML export, but I think you have to be at that page first, and chasing that down with LWP seems like a time-wasting, yak-shaving PITA. Help?
Friday, August 10, 2012
JavaScript Weekly said good thing about this series on learning JS. May have to watch, see what g...
JavaScript Weekly said good thing about this series on learning JS. May have to watch, see what gaps in my knowledge need to be filled. http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
I lost my FitBit. The dashboard says last sync was at 5:30pm, which is when I left my office to h...
I lost my FitBit. The dashboard says last sync was at 5:30pm, which is when I left my office to head toward Subway, where I ate, and then to Greyhouse. There are places in the office it might be, and I'll look again tomorrow.
So, FitBit wearers on Plus, how do you keep track of those things?
So, FitBit wearers on Plus, how do you keep track of those things?
I don't normally crow too much here, but I'm now 25 lbs down from when I started tracking. at 6'3...
I don't normally crow too much here, but I'm now 25 lbs down from when I started tracking. at 6'3" (what my driver's license says as my height), the border between "obese" and merely "overweight" is at 240, so 5 lbs until I'm I'm no longer "obese". (Yeah, I'll jump over that border quite a few times day-to-day. Shut up and help me celebrate.)
I check my weight each morning on a digital scale, then put the value into a web app which writes to a database, and generates this graph with R. Just really simple.
My next trick is to have that web app write to my FitBit account, too. When I get that rolling, I'll put that on GitHub.
I check my weight each morning on a digital scale, then put the value into a web app which writes to a database, and generates this graph with R. Just really simple.
My next trick is to have that web app write to my FitBit account, too. When I get that rolling, I'll put that on GitHub.
I have a light switch that turns a wall socket on and off. Is there a way I could sense whether t...
I have a light switch that turns a wall socket on and off. Is there a way I could sense whether there's power going on and off with an Arduino or other circuit, then have that message go over wireless or into the ether or even the cloud?
(Granted, given a signal, transmitting the signal to another computer is a solved problem. I just want to know how to get the signal.)
(Granted, given a signal, transmitting the signal to another computer is a solved problem. I just want to know how to get the signal.)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
This is a question for those who chose to start using Git or other version control systems not th...
This is a question for those who chose to start using Git or other version control systems not those whose workplace institutionally asserted the decision.
How did you transition? Because I get, intellectually, why it is important, but I'm not getting the process under my fingers yet.
How did you transition? Because I get, intellectually, why it is important, but I'm not getting the process under my fingers yet.
This is what's inside of a Staples Easy! button. I thought there was more, but that was all space...
This is what's inside of a Staples Easy! button. I thought there was more, but that was all space for the speaker, and the leads for the speaker are the red ones that come off to the right. The switch sits on the center.
So, if you want to use this as a "Double-Tap the Scroll Lock" key, what do you do?
So, if you want to use this as a "Double-Tap the Scroll Lock" key, what do you do?
I assert that this is a few iterations away from a perfectly acceptable Javascript-and-SVG versio...
I assert that this is a few iterations away from a perfectly acceptable Javascript-and-SVG version of Asteroids. #challengepresented
http://jsbin.com/onisiz/29
http://jsbin.com/onisiz/29
Monday, August 6, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
"I don't strive for efficiency anymore, because I instantly realized that exercise is all about b...
"I don't strive for efficiency anymore, because I instantly realized that exercise is all about being as inefficient as possible with physical activity."
I could've told you that a decade ago. If you want efficiency, ask a fat person. (says the recovering fat guy.)
I could've told you that a decade ago. If you want efficiency, ask a fat person. (says the recovering fat guy.)
Thursday, August 2, 2012
I'm going to be leading this Hackathon on Saturday. I won't be there until 11am or so, so that's ...
I'm going to be leading this Hackathon on Saturday. I won't be there until 11am or so, so that's when I'd suggest you come. I plan to talk about what Javascript is and what you can do with it, then I'll be teaching "how to program" in Javascript to those without much experience.
Bruno's Pizza is one of the sponsors, so great pizza will be provided at 4pm.
Bruno's Pizza is one of the sponsors, so great pizza will be provided at 4pm.
"The internet will apparently make you psychotic if you only listen to the three people who think...
"The internet will apparently make you psychotic if you only listen to the three people who think so. Or Newsweek, that is."
I remember when I cared about Newsweek. Ahh, those sunny days, with Duran Duran on the radio and Reagan in the White House....
I remember when I cared about Newsweek. Ahh, those sunny days, with Duran Duran on the radio and Reagan in the White House....
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Reshared post from Edd Dumbill Anyone use one of these for real? I've been trying to avoid mor...
Anyone use one of these for real? I've been trying to avoid more interruption rather than foster it, so smart watches seem like an expensive way of ramping up stress levels. But I've never yet met anyone who uses them in earnest, and am prepared to hear opposite points of view!
I used to know Alex years ago, and if you're a programmer and curious about Javascript, this is a...
I used to know Alex years ago, and if you're a programmer and curious about Javascript, this is as good an introduction as I can think of.
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