Category Archives: computing

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laptop battery

2007.03.01 – 6:20 pm PST

I haven’t posted any statistics about my laptop battery in quite some time.
Noticeably I haven’t lost any more capacity since November.

$ battery.sh 
Thu Mar  1 18:13:06 MST 2007
alarm:                   unsupported
present:                 yes
design capacity:         8800 mWh
last full capacity:      8331 mWh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          10800 mV
design capacity warning: 833 mWh
design capacity low:     416 mWh
capacity granularity 1:  264 mWh
capacity granularity 2:  8 mWh
model number:            351s1
serial number:           001
battery type:            LiOn
OEM info:                OEM
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:            unknown
remaining capacity:      8331 mWh
present voltage:         12631 mV

[tags]battery_notes, battery, laptop battery, notebook, computers, laptops, technology, hardware, Lithium Ion, statistics[/tags]

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Joost Beta

2007.02.26 – 5:42 am PST

I got my Joost Beta login today, this morning. I should get some invites soon. When I do who wants one?
[update 2] Friends first, then others who’ve ask in that order. Sorry should have clarified this but it was early in the morning, and I hadn’t slept yet.

They have clients for PC, Mac OSX. No Linux, but maybe it will run in Wine.

Joost™

[update]The installer crashed Wine, and then seems to have left me a partially installed Joost. Attempts to run this using Wine also fail. Ohwell, guess I’ll test it on my Dad’s laptop, or using VMware.

$ wine RunJoost.exe 
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 at address 0x601b18 (thread 000b), starting debugger...
0x00601b19: movl        0x3c(%eax),%edx
Modules:
Module  Address                 Debug info      Name (16 modules)
PE      600000-831000   Export          tvprunner
ELF     7bf00000-7bf03000       Deferred        <wine -loader>
ELF     7edea000-7edf4000       Deferred        libnss_files.so.2
ELF     7edf4000-7ee09000       Deferred        libnsl.so.1
ELF     7ee09000-7ef2b000       Deferred        kernel32<elf>
  \-PE  7ee20000-7ef2b000       \               kernel32
ELF     7ef2b000-7ef4f000       Deferred        libm.so.6
ELF     7ef6e000-7f000000       Deferred        ntdll</elf><elf>
  \-PE  7ef80000-7f000000       \               ntdll
ELF     b7cf2000-b7cfc000       Deferred        libnss_nis.so.2
ELF     b7cfe000-b7d02000       Deferred        libdl.so.2
ELF     b7d02000-b7e23000       Deferred        libc.so.6
ELF     b7e23000-b7e39000       Deferred        libpthread.so.0
ELF     b7e50000-b7e58000       Deferred        libnss_compat.so.2
ELF     b7e58000-b7f68000       Deferred        libwine.so.1
ELF     b7f69000-b7f85000       Deferred        ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000a (D) C:\Program Files\Joost\xulrunner\tvprunner.exe
        0000000b    0 < ==

[tags]joost, beta, beta test, software, internet, P2P, television, [/tags]

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boredom, let’s write about…

2007.02.20 – 4:30 pm PST

I got my PayPal security key today. My PayPal and eBay accounts are now more secure I believe, not that I use either of them often, if only rarely. But if I ever lose the FOB I will be SOL for at least a week, and of course probably have to deal with customer service which no one likes to do. If you use either service regularly i would suggest getting it for that extra bit of satisfaction with security. I got mine for free because years ago I made my PayPal account business level, but they are only $5 for everyone else. Although I think they should be free for all the users.

I wish i had stereo vision like a raptor, or fly for that matter. sorry watching a thing on PBS, nature: raptor force.

oh yeah, I saw this cool background, I just had to save. Set this as your background on a page, or desktop and stare for hours. :)
7477ho7cl987eb.gif

Also it rained yesterday pretty hard for about 5 minutes around 5:30 pm, and then again later once the sun set. Today the weather has been beautiful, clear, and kind of warm.

Today for lunch I had my favorite sandwich from Debbie’s Deli. MMmmm, Rob’s Reuben. Hot corned beef, sour kraut, sourdough bread, and thousand island dressing. It’s sooo good, best sandwich in town, hands down. This should have been written in a microformat so search engines pick it up, but ohwell.

[tags]security, paypal, ebay, security key, security fob, security token, pbs, nature, raptors, boredom, weather, rain, arizona, sierra vista, food, lunch, boredom, writing[/tags]

[note] automagical save draft feature in wordpress 2.1 saved this post from the bit bucket of being lost in /dev/null

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Pocket PC Windows Tax

2007.01.12 – 12:09 pm PST

I read something the other day about the “Windows Tax” via [linux-watch.com] basically a method for getting a refund on the OEM version of MS Windows you are “Forced” to buy with a PC from some manufacturers. I wonder if this method will also work when purchasing a Pocket PC with Microsoft Software on it. I’m thinking about this because I just read on the this weeks GWN, that a member of the Russian Gentoo Community managed to get E17 running on his HP iPAQ hx4700. Obviously users have managed to get Linux running on their PDA’s for quite some time, but my brain didn’t really put the one and two together. Why should you have to buy the Pocket PC OS when your just going to put Linux on it anyway? Does Palm have the same terms in their license I wonder?

Now I wonder how difficult this could be mostly because I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Pocket PC OS sold separately. In the Linux.com article the person uses the Microsoft Windows Home Edition as a baseline for his requested refund amount.

Perhaps the refund amount will be more substantial since the cost of a sweet PDA is almost twice as much as the run of the mill PC.

[tags]PDA, Pocket PC, Microsoft, Windows Tax, Windows, Gentoo, Linux, OEM, thoughts, musings, [/tags]

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wish list

2007.01.08 – 7:20 pm PST

just adding that I’d like some bluetooth devices;
latest/greatest bluetooth dongle
a pair of headphones
an optical mouse with lots of buttons
split keyboard.

all rechargeable somehow.

[tags]wish list, bluetooth headphones, bluetooth mouse, bluetooth keyboard[/tags]

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ugh, wordpress broke.

2006.12.24 – 9:25 pm PST

OK, well something broke after my Twas the Night Before Christmas post..

WordPress database error: [You have an error IN your SQL syntax; CHECK the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the RIGHT syntax to USE near 'AND post_status = 'publish' AND DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 90 DAY) < ' at line 9]
SELECT ID, ( (5 * (MATCH (`post_title`) AGAINST ('pain' IN BOOLEAN MODE))) + (3 * (MATCH (`post_excerpt`) AGAINST ('pain' IN BOOLEAN MODE))) + (1 * (MATCH (`post_content`) AGAINST ('pain' IN BOOLEAN MODE))) ) AS `relevance` FROM `wp_posts` WHERE ( MATCH (`post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_content`) AGAINST ('pain' IN BOOLEAN MODE)) AND ID != AND post_status = 'publish' AND DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 90 DAY) <= post_modified HAVING `relevance` >= 5 ORDER BY `relevance` DESC LIMIT 1

[update]
OK the aLinks wordpress plugin was the culprit. It kept catching the keyphrase ‘pain’ for some reason, and decided it did not like it.

[tags]wordpress, broken, this is broken, mysql, SQL,fixed, alinks, wordpress plugin[/tags]

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software patents

2006.12.16 – 6:30 pm PST

In something which doesn’t make much sense until you read it, Software Freedom Law Center comes to Microsoft’s aid.

Why would lawyers who do pro bono work do this?

While it’s only a distant possibility the SFLC hopes that a Supreme Court ruling might even find that software patents are illegal.

*crosses fingers*

I personally think the obviousness test process is broken.

[tags]software patents, microsoft, SFLC, patents[/tags]

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m0n0wall uptime

2006.12.16 – 4:19 pm PST

A new beta build of m0n0wall came out today. So I decided to post the uptime of my system before I install the new build.

System information
Name 	xxx
Version 	1.23b1
built on Mon Jun 5 12:21:09 CEST 2006
Platform 	generic-pc
Uptime 	49 days, 04:30
Last config change 	Sat Dec 16 14:48:33 MST 2006

[edit] It’s up. :) 

System information
Name 	xxx
Version 	1.3b1
built on Sat Dec 16 19:50:56 CET 2006
Platform 	generic-pc
Uptime 	00:01
Last config change 	Sat Dec 16 14:48:33 MST 2006

[tags]m0n0wall, freebsd, uptime, software, notes, firewall[/tags]

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FreeNAS vmware install.

2006.12.16 – 2:44 pm PST

I downloaded the latest FreeNAS 0.68 vmware image. After I unzipped the file, and put the guest OS where I wanted it, I came across an error.

Unable to connect to the MKS: You need execute access in order to connect with the VMware Server Console.  Access denied for config file: /mnt/sda1/virtual machines/FreeNAS 0.68/FreeBSD.vmx.

After searching google for the error, nothing came up. Fortunately it seemed like an easy fix after a few thoughts. Of course zip files do not retain file permissions. But of course, it could have been created on a windows machine. Either way, the fix was easy.

The Fix:

$ chmod 755 *.vmx
$ ls -la *.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 px users 1224 2006-12-16 14:24 FreeBSD.vmx
$ chmod 755 *.vmx
$ ls -la *.vmx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 px users 1224 2006-12-16 14:24 FreeBSD.vmx

Now the guest OS starts up just fine.
[tags]vmware, image, guest operating system, freebsd, linux, FreeNAS[/tags]

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it’s broken

2006.12.10 – 4:18 am PST

my blog is somewhat broken at the moment.

several of the images being called are being blocked by adblock so I had to add my site to the whitelist.
most of the html is not validating.
mod_rewrite is being weird, so most of the pretty urls are screwed up
//feed/ works on the non-ssl enabled version.

*sigh*
[tags]this_is_broken, broken, fixme, wordpress[/tags]

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