A t least when I botched my own shell script yesterday, I had the decency to do it entirely within my own space and on my own home machine. Others — no, you probably don't know them — with greater...the aid of dsh , they executed on a number of machines simultaneously as root. Needless to say, the machines had not been backed up for some little time... Talk about a painful learning experience..

H aving churned out a whole load of data over night on the mac, I wanted to shift the output files over to my NAS, where I've got more free disc space. So, first thing this morning and barely conscious...to: (a) make sure that I use an scp && rm construct; (b) I'm going to make damn sure my destination box is on; and (c) I'm not going to try and do it when I'm both in a hurry and half-asleep..

In lieu of being creative this evening I tried to at least be productive and set up Gnucash to automagically talk to my financial institutions using Direct Connect. There are two I really care about, HSBC...institution? What's the right approach for a nerd with a bank account in 2009? Ethan [*] The story for CapitalOne is of course more complicated -- see msmoneycaponesupport.blogspot.com for the full story

Chording glove pattern prototype, version 1, three fingers and a thumb left to knit: I am making this up as I go along, thus there are a few irregularities that I will correct in the next version...knitting probably takes about ten hours (spread out over a few days, since my hands get sore quickly), and the soldering goes fast; the parts are less than $20 total. Any thoughts? Would you buy one

Seven ports! I need to make a really short USB cable so that I can hook the chording glove up to it. Four on the inside, three on the outside. USB-mini in the back, optional power supply...chording but have the rig set up anyway, I can just plug an ordinary USB keyboard into my wrist!) If I do make a custom wrist-mount, I might go all out and make a PCB for it using this approach

Snagged from michiexile . 1.Take a picture of yourself right now. 2.Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. 3.Post that picture with NO editing. 4.Post these instructions with your picture. Me and my Arduino NG, with the accelerometer I just rigged up to it.

Kabuki asked me to pass along a message to another player, and I did, and this evening he thanked me for it and gave me a thank-you gift. Two odd things: - He referred to this other player as "she,"...ages. Your feedback and thoughts are appreciated. I hope I'm just being paranoid and have nothing to worry about, because if my town has been screwed with I would definitely shed many a tear. Thanks

First off, my apologies for the lousy picture quality. We have a really good camera, thanks to foxgrrl , but I am a terrible photographer who cannot hold a camera steady one-handed to save her...Remix, using F-Spot and UFRaw for importing and colour correction, and The Gimp for annotation and resizing. And, of course, the SpiffChorder design is itself free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer

It is retardedly hot and humid in the late afternoon/early evening here. I have given up entirely on the notion of pants, and still cannot bring myself to do much of anything except drink water and read...I'm going to try to keep from melting if that's okay with y'all. I need to find some milk crates, a hose and a couple of half-amp motors; this is giving me ideas for a stackable modular swamp cooler

Since my last update, I've picked up the necessary hardware to build a SpiffChorder , Mikkel Holm Olsen's homebrew AVR-based chording keyboard. The circuit is now mostly breadboarded, and one of my winter...with those 82-ohm resistors, finish that breadboarding job, and try loading Mikkel's hex image onto my ATMega8. Cross your fingers for me -- I want to take this to the hackerspace meeting tonight