Got myself 4m of ws2801 LED Strip and a Teensy 3.0

Turns out this is a neat combination.

Got this coaster from my good friend Taru.

To have chromium (and chrome) browser do Kerberos TGT for example.com web pages, one needs to pass --auth-server-whitelist="*.example.com"

changing providers I adjusted the old script to fit my router, using PPPoE but not NetworkManager.

Create /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with this content

SMS reception while online

Wanting to be able to use gnokii while I have a connection open with ModemManager, I created the following udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/98-pcfe-modem.rules

This is what I use to mess about my laptop’s power settings.

In Fedora 16 (and I presume other distributions using gnome3), each print job generates a notification. If one prints a lot, this ends up cluttering the notification bar.

no, no, not what you think. The Finnish army is just running an exercise.

One of the uses of a TPM is to feed /dev/random on your linux box. I will not go into the political implications of TPM.

See also Matt Domsch’s blog.

Those still running RHEL5/CentOS5, be sure to have rng-utils-2.0-4 or later and kernel-2.6.18-238.el5 or later.

Some of the following steps are specific to my HP ProLiant MicroServer, but most will apply to any modern linux and HW (one would prefer the TPM to be an integral part of the motherboard as opposed to a module).

While for my VDR I got the the wireless version a few days earlier, the USB version arrived late last week and is attached to the machine where I use a keyboard most. As always, I got myself a US layout.

An old joke but I still like it.

For the last decade, I have been using cvs at home to have version control over documents (mostly LaTeX and config files). The original cvs server has been since migrated to a virtual machine.