So I couldn’t resist… I picked up an Intel Yolo today: I just happened to be at Sarit Center and saw that Safaricom had them on demo. I was pretty impressed, the thing is pretty snappy, the battery apparently lasts forever, and it was only 11,000 shillings ($125). It’s a very competitive phone for its […]
pcspkr is evil! Kill it with fire! No, but seriously, it’s so annoying amirite?! Whenever I’m poking around in a virtual terminal and I hit Tab that damn beep scares the bejesus out of me. Last week I installed ifplugd and it beeps in several different tones whenever the Ethernet cable gets unplugged (or downed, […]
The other day I was doing some server setups (using ansible for automation) and I needed to create the same user/password on four different machines. It’s easy with ansible’s user module, but you need to provide a pre-hashed password. The key is to use python’s crypt.crypt(), which you can do interactively from a python shell: […]
I flew from Portland (PDX) -> San Diego (SAN) this week. I was greeted by one of the controversial full-body millimeter wave scanners. Unsure of the privacy and health implications of the scanners, I decided to opt out, and get a manual pat down instead. I was somewhat surprised when my mom whipped out her […]
Note: As of Linux 3.7.6 the samsung-laptop no longer loads when booting in UEFI mode on Samsung hardware. I got a beautiful new Samsung NP900X3C ultrabook this week. It came with Windows 7, which I only used to go download the Arch Linux ISO (ok fine, I also checked my email). As this machine is […]