I always confess my love of Linux. All I need is some rsync and ssh and there’s nothing I can’t do. My wife runs Windows 7 and maintains our finances, so backups are important. I tried all the normal stuff like Robocopy and SyncToy, but both would do strange things when added to Taskscheduler. I’m […]
Cooler Master RR-910-HTX3-G1 CPU Cooler for 775/1156/AMD/AM2/AM3
I bought this because my Dual-Core AMD Athlon 64 X2, 3100 MHz (15.5 x 200) 6000+ (Brisbane) was running very, very hot. Under normal load it would hit 65C (150-175 Fahrenheit). The stock cooler kept the CPU from overheating, but barely. Installation was tricky, but by no means impossible. I removed (unclipped) the fan from […]
Twidge, twitter, mrtg and a little shell scripting to graph my workouts
I decided to start working out. Ok, you can get off the floor now. I am working out. I have a really cool, entry level elliptical, the Schwinn 420. The only problem with the 420 is that it’s electronic console does NOT connect to the web. I decided to combat this by tweeting my workouts […]
Linux has rsync, Windows has….. robocopy?
I love me some rsync, toss in some ssh and there’s nothing I can’t do. So imagine my frustration when I had to use my Windows 7 laptop to download a bunch of large files from a slow network share, across a VPN tunnel. After about the 4th try I was ready to snap. This […]
Requirements for my next cell phone
These are my requirements for my next cell phone: Gorilla Glass AmoLED display Custom ROMs available and the ability to flash the phone to remove the Carrier Bundled apps (Bloatware) that I don’t need or want. Take note of this Verizon: I do not want BING as my default search when Google is superior. I […]
Fine tuning the Motorola Droid
4G is all the rage right now, but I’m not eligible for a device upgrade until 2012. This means that I have to take some measures to extend the usefulness of my Motorola Droid. My Droid has been getting significantly slower, and sometimes seems to hiccup itself into a rebooting. I will be addressing […]
IceWM Logout can shutdown the computer
I just realized that IceWM supports both a startup script, and just as cool, a shutdown script. When you select “Logout” from the IceWM menu, IceWM checks the /home/username/.icewm directory for a shutdown file. After tinkering with /etc/sudoers to give my mother the proper sudo privileges I added this .icewm/shutdown script: #!/bin/shsudo /sbin/halt Now when my mother […]
Unixtools for Windows: Create an iso of a cd/dvd rom with dd
I was trying to create an iso using Windows 7. Why didn’t I just use Linux? Both of my DVD drives are in this PC (I know bad planning on my part). I’ll make sure to rectify this very soon though! I didn’t have any CDR software or other tools installed on Windows 7, […]
Damn Small Linux (DSL)
I just installed DSL on a Gateway 2500: P2 366MHz with 128 Megs of RAM and it runs like a champ. Now I have another laptop for around the house use. To bad that it feels like it must weigh 300lbs!
Linux on a Dell Latitude CPx (650MHz) with 184Megs of RAM
A few weeks ago my mother managed to utterly destroy her Gateway laptop. It was 1.5GHz and had 1GB or RAM. When I say “destroyed”, I don’t mean she crushed it, it just was dead as a door nail. Nothing worked…. except the HD (once removed from the dead laptop). My poor mother needs to […]