http://www.copyandwaste.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:24:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got a bunch of cool stuff this year.  My favorite is probably the GPS my fiance got me.. I get lost very easily.  My expected favorite is the Drobo, my un-expected favorite is my caliper.  2008 was interesting.. Got a job at a media giant, that is somewhat sinking. Got enganged Picked ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2009/01/04/the-holidays-were-pretty-good-to-me/ "The real shame of it Andy is that most things in life are as useless as twitter, and most people haven't realized it -LLL" "We're all mushroom men, ... We're all in the dark eatin our own shit -LLL" "It's a sacrifice to Murphy -LLL" "Silence is agreement -LLL" http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/12/11/lll-is-a-man-of-many-words/ Whenever I write a shell script I find myself trying to construct command line arguements to achieve what I want. Then I google the problem I'm going to solve and find better ways to do it. By the next time I need to solve a similar problem I ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/11/16/useful-command-line-reference/ Scenario: You are VPN'd into your company and you wish to browse the web without any traffic traversing your corporation's network. If you company has split-tunneling configured on their vpn, chances are that traffic destined towards the internet will not touch the corporate network. One downside to split tunneling is ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/11/05/using-ssh-d-in-leopard-well-really-any-os-with-openssh/ I've procured a few cisco devices for a network lab and needed serial console access.  I don't have any windows machines anymore so there was no teraterm or hyperterminal.... but I forgot about screen! Get a usb to serial cable - link Install driver - link Open Terminal To make sure the USB ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/10/24/serial-terminal-with-osx-leopard/ It's time for the best holiday ever... haloween!  I've seen some pretty sophisticated pumpkins carved out so far this year.  I've decided to ditch the freestyle and make a stencil for my pumpkin this year.  I found a couple of music related stencils but I didn't care for them.  Anthrax ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/10/11/pumpkins/ I remember when the only picture editor I had was mspaint.  I did EVERYTHING in it, from logos to letterheads.  An online community's members drew their favorite album covers in mspaint... this is awesome. http://www.publiccollectors.org/MSPaintAlbumCovers.htm http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/10/10/38/ The last time I got an ultra portable laptop it was a Fujitsu Lifebook.  At the time there was nothing like it.. a tiny laptop with 6 hours of battery life and a DVD/CDR drive.  Over the years it served as a network auditing machine, a firewall, a router, a ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/09/16/asus-netbook/ I moved from my previous IIS/Subtext platform to the old LAMP/wordpress standby.  There are a few reasons why I didn't like subtext, it sucked.  I left the wordpress world and I just came back, and the changes are awesome! Subtext chokes on exporting to BlogML if any posts contain embedded youtube ... http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/09/15/hello-goodbye-subtext-to-wordpress/ I've decided to make my own mouse, because I like hardware and there is an artistic element to the project. http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/07/29/building-a-mouse-picture-post/