Category Archives: General

Purchase a Acer C7 Chromebook Enable developer mode Invoke Recovery mode, you hold down the following keys: ESC, first key on the left on the very top row. F3/Refresh, fourth key on the very top row Touch the Power button, … Continue reading →

Sometimes I just need to do this. echo -n 15 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

I would like to introduce you to a tool that you have probably needed or will need some time. It’s called fix_tags and is written by my friend Mr. Dave Morriss, lead developer at Hacker Public Radio. While the tool … Continue reading →

Back in 2012-07-10, I did a Hacker Public Radio episode entitled, “hpr1027 :: Migrating away from Google Reader“. Given the current news that Google is to shut down Reader, I thought I would re-post the episodes show notes here as … Continue reading →

The moral of the story is “read the screen” the only problem is that sometimes it’s difficult to interpret what it’s saying. So instead of focusing on “No such file or directory (2)”, I needed to look at “rsync: mkstemp “/new/path/to/files/some:file:with:colon:in:the:name.txt” failed:” and ask why. Continue reading →

I’m looking for help with a project that will provide a way to locate mosquitos. Yes I am serious. Remember this is not the army. We don’t “locate and destroy”. We’re following the Unix  philosophy of doing one job and doing it … Continue reading →

I’m at John Lennon International airport, having a coffee and looking over at a big yellow submarine. I walked past that submarine looking for a bus to take me to OggCamp12. The first stop was the “wave bar”, where the … Continue reading →

The Linux Link The following list is based on information on the The Linux Link website, maintained by Dann Washko. Thanks to everyone who supplied updated information on the podcasts and a special thank you to Dave Morriss for helping … Continue reading →

I’m putting a list of Linux/Tech/Security podcasts together to hand out at http://OggCamp .org. The list comes from http://www.thelinuxlink.net/ and I want to know am I missing any active podcasts. BSD Talk ( http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ) Category5 ( http://www.category5.tv ) CCHits … Continue reading →

“rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions … Continue reading →