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Here’s how I cloned a drive with bad sectors using ‘dd‘.
Since I did this on a Mac, I saved the output image file as a ‘.img’ file. This would give me the ability to mount the image after I created it if I needed to get individual files.
Clone the failing drive [...]
Pretty stoked to finally get one! So far I’ve dissected an old RC car and turned its wireless receiver board / remote into a volume controller for my Mac. I foresee many cool projects…
I’ve been running Nagios on my systems at home (yes, I’m that big of a nerd) for a week or so, but didn’t get around to setting up e-mail alerts until now. There are a few ways to go about doing this, but I’ll describe the way I got it going. Since I’m not running [...]
I don’t know if you can really call this a bug, but it’s certainly something that needs to be dealt with. After implementing the jQuery Nivo Slider plugin (which is great when it works), I was getting the following error in the JavaScript console in Chrome during every image transition:
Uncaught TypeError: [...]
It appears that with the latest update, Twitter has replaced their dock icon from the original sleek black color to a brighter blue. I really liked the original black, so this is how I went back to it.
1. Download the original icon here
2. Open up Applications and [...]
Here’s a little Python script I cooked up for work. We often have to change the custom LCD string on boxes if the machine is given a new name. Before, we’d have to restart a machine to access the DRAC configuration to change the name. With this script, all you have to do is enable [...]
Updated 12-4-10 – minor code updates
I have yet another script. This one is actually my first one in Python, which is kind of sad after all the good things I’ve heard about the language. This time I didn’t actually write the entire script – I simply added to one that had already been [...]
I played around tonight with making my iPod touch an auxiliary display. I thought it may be neat to just have random real-time public tweets cycle through on it so I made the following. As you can see there’s nothing too smooth about it yet – no AJAXiness implemented as this was purely proof of [...]
I think this is pretty cool for a Happy Meal toy…
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- @GreenHomeGear I've added you as a friend, you should be able to DM if needed. 1 week ago
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