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Moving is hard
I only move within Canada, and even I think moving is hard. I left my drivers license, banking, financials all registered to my parents house until I bought my own place last year. Before that I moved about twice a year for more than a decade before that, across five cities in three provinces, and […]
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Internet of things that do what they’re told
I really loved this talk between Cory Doctorow and Tim O’Reilly The purpose of the IoT is to give humans superpowers A lot of our Internet of Things models proceed from the idea that a human emits a beacon and you gather as much information as you can — often in a very adversarial way […]
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Fake raid metadata
Thanks to this guy I finally got my 1tb disk initialized to use in my raid array – it had some garbage about being attached to another raid that I couldn’t remove or overwrite, so I finally plugged it into a usb dock and into my linux laptop and used dd to wipe the first […]
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Acer E3 111
I picked up a new acer laptop last weekend for 170$ from Canada Computers. On one hand, the keyboard is crap, it’s a bit slow, the screen has poor viewing angles and the wifi is a bit flakey. On the other, it was 170$, the screen is minimally adequate, battery life is decent, has usb3, […]
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CrunchBang ‘Detect Disks’ error fixed
Even though I have an almost obscene number of computers, I’ve really been missing having a personal laptop. So I’ve resurrected the IBM Thinkpad T42 that was old when my brother bought it used for school years ago. I had CrunchBang Statler installed on it before, currently trying to update it to CrunchBang Waldorf – […]
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New Floors!
Putting in our new floors today. Had a lot if help 😉 One room and hallway mostly done, two rooms to go. Edges take far longer than areas with these floating cork planks.
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Baby tunes
So, here’s a first for me – a post about a finished project. Well, OK, not finished but in production at least. Friday night the radio in the nursery kicked it. I think the warranty has expired. I’ve been meaning to make a headless RasBMC player anyway, so I distracted the baby with the box […]
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Zombies got me
Game night with Fonz et al at his friend’s cottage.