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Jawbone Up First Impressions 13 Jul 2013 | 10:05 pm
Well I've worn my Jawbone Up for 24 hours now and here's my first impressions. It's comfortable. I was worried that getting a Medium would be too big for me because I have very small wrists, but appa...
No More Comments 4 Jul 2013 | 09:11 pm
Sorry folks but I've just killed the ability to post comments entirely. I love getting comments and carrying on conversations, but the 1000+ spam comments people try to post every month with a subject...
Android Date Glitch 24 Jun 2013 | 10:30 pm
My daughter's Samsung Galaxy Player had it's Google Play Store suddenly stop working. The error it threw was "No connection." I tried clearing the cache, clearing updates on Play, installing a new ve...
Moving ZPOOL to New Controllers Like a Ninja 4 Jun 2013 | 11:05 pm
In an effort to squeeze a bit more performance out of my Gluster / ZFS setup I purchased four PCI-Express low-profile SATA 6G cards for my two servers. Each card will control two of the four drives in...
ZFS Is 42. 16 May 2013 | 10:17 pm
For those who don't get the reference (and I bet of my readers that's very few) 42 is the answer to the secret of life, the universe and everything. For the past few weeks I've been playing with the ...
SSH Hostname Autocompletion 14 May 2013 | 08:28 pm
Do you use SSH quite a bit, and grow tired of typing in the machine names each time? There's an easy fix for that. First, create a text file in your home directory called "hostfile". Populate it wit...
LDAP Authentication and NSCD 13 May 2013 | 08:30 pm
I don't know how I didn't run into this before, but I finally stumbled on a program that just made my life a ton better. We run OpenLDAP for network authentication, among other things. Periodically, ...
Formatting Large USB Sticks for MP3 Use 27 Apr 2013 | 12:42 am
A lot of newer vehicles have USB sockets for plugging in your music collection. The default FAT32 format that Ubuntu does in the disk manager just doesn't cut it. In many cases, the vehicle may not ev...
Ubuntu Quantal policykit failure 8 Apr 2013 | 08:59 pm
So since installing Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, I've been plagued by strange authentication errors. I thought for some time that it was related to my use of LDAP for domain admin authentication, but it turn...
My new app 2 Apr 2013 | 11:21 pm
After nearly two years of off-and-on development I finally finished it! MilesTrac Online integrates everything suggested by people who used my old MilesTrac Free app but were beyond the scope of the ...
