Owner: Peepholes into my Life URL:http://blogs.unbolt.net Join Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:09:52 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: sysadmin, web dev, coder, geek boy, jedi knight fragger, caffine addict, deaf meloncholic and rockstar wannabe. Listens to the sex pistols and a wide assortment of heavy metal. Site statistics:Click here
Xdmx Setup 2007-12-14 22:06:13 This is the result of having to many old crappy PCs (Pentium 2s and below), 8 unused 19inch monitors and bucket load of boredom. You get 8 monitors linked up to form one giant screen via Xdmx (Distributed Multi-head X), which simply put is a Linux based software that allows several PCs with their own monitors to link up via TCP/IP Ethernet network to form a big giant screen.
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ETCorp at D+I 07 2007-12-14 21:41:46 Its been a while since I blogged so I thought I’d brag about the banners that I designed and created with my colleague Julie at ETCorp for this year’s Defence Industry trade exhibition 07 at the Adelaide Convention Centre in North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia.
It the two tall skyscraper banners in the left and right of the back drop. Both were created in GIMP, its just wonderful what you can do with GIMP for free compared with Adobe Photoshop. Dont get me wrong though, you pay for what you get and Photoshop definitely has more features than GIMP.
MacGyver Metal detector! 2007-11-24 21:01:21 Apparently you can make a metal detector by taping a normal calculator and an AM radio! Instructional video below
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My cure for VMware "STOP: 0x0000007B" error 2007-11-24 08:48:26 One of the grievances of upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy was the breaking of VMware. Apparently there isn’t a vmware-server package in Ubuntu Gutsy as opposed to Feisty. A quick download and compile of vmware-server 1.04 from VMware.com and VMware-server was back in a breeze. On the other hand, booting into my disk partition was an absolute pain in the ass.
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Real Life Red Alert Telsa Coil 2007-11-07 08:05:23 %20Alert
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This is absolutely the coolest time wasting activity of the month! If only it was truly 3 dimensional. Brings back old memories of playing CnC. Most of the setup was from 1 dimensional pictures on cardboard. Nonetheless its still pretty wicked. Oh and yes, its a real tesla coil.
More pictures and plans on how he set it all up.
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HP's IPAQ firmware screw up 2008-03-09 05:28:40 Seems like HP knew what was screwing up the firmware updates after all. This is the widely reported issue that has affected many IPAQ users such as my self.
You can see it as one of the document fixes on the firmware download’s page at HP.com
under the release notes page.
Here is a screen capture from Firefox of the above link (click to view the full image),
Using Naver Maps API without the key 2008-03-18 09:33:46 Today for work I investigated the implementation of South Korean maps for one of our clients, unfortunately Google Maps doesn’t currently have street level details and view in South Korea. I ended up having to look at maps.naver.com which seems to be the only decent free korean mapping site available on the Internet with an API as well. Unfortunately for me, I did not understand korean, google translate was unable to help me with the site and there was no english translation available. After scanning through the API (in Korean), I managed to make out how implement the code but it was impossible to register without understanding the 10 step registration process in order to get an API key to use the maps . . . anyway here’s how I got it working without the API key!
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photoplug plugin for b2evolution 2007-11-04 03:32:24 /media/blogs/brinley/_photoplug.plugin.zipI’ve been trying to get my missus to update her blog but one of the features that she wanted as a way of embedding slideshows and photo galleries stuff.
So I ended up writing a simple one and named it photoplug.
Currently it only supports flickr and picasa.
What it does is it extends the renderer plugin to convert flickr and picasa tags into its respective embedded slideshows.
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Planet Lugs 2008-04-14 09:01:24 I’ve just joined Planet LUGS (Linux User Groups Singapore), a Singapore based blog aggregrator site for blogs that fit the following tags: Open source + Linux + Singapore + geek. The site is run by Eugene Teo.
Check it out at or subscribe to its atom feed at and keep up to date with the Singapore linux scene.
Incorporating AdSense to b2evolution 2008-04-16 10:28:30 François has written an Adsense plugin for b2evolution for conveniently inserting Google Ads via the insertion of an Adsense tag.
This approach allows one to manually and simply drop [ adsense: ] tags throughout the post which will be automatically rendered as Google Ads.
Here is a method I found to add them on a more global level rather than manually adding in the post. You can also configure them based on each skin’s color scheme and dimensions.
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HOWTO take apart and repair an old NES 2008-04-18 23:06:13 This video from Gamelife found via Hackszine brings back the good old days. It shows how to dismantle a Nintendo Entertainment System, replace the 72-pin connector and get the NES working like new! I still have an NES with lots of games at home somewhere, now i just need to buy a 72-pin connector.
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Insulting source code 2008-04-28 07:52:27 When someone insults you in the source code, file a bug report and mark it as severe.
Heres the offending code in quodlibet’s source code
Code:===================================================================
--- player.py (Revision 4026)
+++ player.py (Revision 4027)
@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@
def init(pipeline, librarian):
gst.debug_set_default_threshold(gst.LEVEL_ERROR)
- if gst.element_make_from_uri(gst.URI_SRC, "file://", ""):
+ if gst.element_make_from_uri(
+ gst.URI_SRC,
+ "file:///Sebastian/Droge/please/choke/on/a/bucket/of/cocks", ""):
global playlist
playlist = PlaylistPlayer(pipeline or "gconfaudiosink",
librarian)
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Ubuntu on Sony VAIO VGN-FE48G a.k.a PCG-7V5P 2008-06-07 23:45:55 This model of this laptop is VGN-FE48G according to Sony
’s website and has that model number below the bottom right of the lcd screen. However underneath the laptop it says Model: PCG-7V5P.
I am currently running Ubuntu
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