Category: computing
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Get photos off your Android phone with GPhoto2
Being an ardent Linux user, I researched how I could get photos off my Galaxy SII. This is not possible with MSD (mass storage device) mode which implies a FAT file system and also implies exclusive access to the file system (but your phone doesn’t stop running when you plug it in). You have to…
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TechSNAP 162 Question on WiFi Roaming
Dear Marlene, Allen and Chris, Catching up on Episode 162 of TechSNAP I heard Marlene’s question. Doing conference style roaming on a small budget tends to be very frustrating, because there are a lot of moving parts that most WiFi-EAP (enterprise grade) systems are pre-assembled with. When you have to assemble your own components, you…
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Happy Penguins at LinuxFest Northwest 2014 Party
I felt like I had a lot of camera issues at the start (which first was needing to go back home in order to retrieve all my SD cards, pppt.) Indoor pictures are always difficult, and as such, to make these look less like snapshots, I squirted a lot of Sriracha on these. Here are…
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create virtual ethernet devices in linux? – Stack Overflow
This is a great pile of advice on creating virtual network interfaces. networking – How do I create virtual ethernet devices in linux? – Stack Overflow.
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This is not the nastiest perl I’ve ever done…but dang.
This is a stanza where, given a comma separated list of keywords to match on, find the values after the colon. The values could be empty and at the end of a line. I would be delighted to find an even simpler way to do this. my $matcher = ” (“.join(‘|’, keys %option_map).”):”; my @matches =…
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Introducing BPasswd2
This is a really cool idea. I’m already a big fan of LastPass, but anything that helps simplify generating passwords is a great idea. Introducing BPasswd2.
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Resilvering: Just what I want to see
I love replacing failed hard drives. Mostly, because I hate having hard drive failures. root@cholla ~ $ zpool attach -f tank ata-ST2000DM001-9YN164_W1E16BJB ata-ST2000DM001-1E6164_W1E5W99Y root@cholla ~ $ zpool status -v pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. action: Wait…
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uh…remind me how to begin a perl script?
Don’t let me forget to do this at the start of my perl scripts at work: package main; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; $SIG{ __DIE__ } = sub { Carp::confess( @_ ) }; use Scalar::Util; #::looks_like_number; # Un-buffer output $| = 1; # this is pedantic necessity for the following use statements use lib…
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