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I've moved
I have a new blog.
This happened a while ago, but I never announced it here because I was hoping to migrate my old posts. I suppose I can do that later - also, I know I haven't been answering messages/comments here, which I will hopefully remedy in the next few weeks. -
Shelless SSH Server with Twisted
I needed a shelless SSH server that would not honor shell requests or exec commands, because I wanted to provide SFTP access without allowing shell access. I'm only posting this because this may be useful to people - I don't know Twisted very well, and there may be a better way to do it, but this works:
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Woots, rotation and navigation keys work on the XO.
Now I can use the XO as an ebook reader (in tablet mode) when using Ubuntu.
I was having problems before because the rotation key on the XO, as well as the directional keypad (see this image, although the rotation key is labeled as "backlight control" for some reason). xev didn't even register anything when I hit the keys (oddly enough it did ( Read more... ) -
XrandR on Ubuntu on the XO
The wiki.laptop.org instructions for installing Ubuntu on the XO tell you to install Holger Levsen's backported Xorg AMD drivers. They gave me dependency errors so googled around and found that the AMD Geode driver project on x.org. Even more convenient is Martin-Éric's PPA for the Gutsy and Hardy drivers. Installing xserver-xorg-video-amd, and ( Read more... ) -
Ubuntu installed on OLPC XO
Thanks to several sources (wiki.laptop.org Ubuntu installation, wiki.laptop.org XFce, and OLPC News forums), I managed to get Ubuntu working on my OLPC.
The instructions were pretty straightforward, but the process wasn't entirely painless for me so I thought I'd post a few tips:- 2G is absolutely fine. My Ubuntu installation with XFce takes up ( Read more... )
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PS3 and Saturday nights in
We've been fairly disappointed with the lack of good Wii games lately (and the low output resolution of the Wii) so we finally cleared out our games cabinet a bit, turned in our games and systems for store credit, and bought a PS3.
It's gorgeous! We also got Assassin's Creed, which got meh reviews but that I'm quite enjoying so far. What's neat ( Read more... ) -
Icelandic woman detained at customs
I recently came across an article posted in the International Herald Tribune about an Icelandic woman who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security at JFK International Airport. She was kept awake for 72 hours, given only bread and porridge once, and otherwise mistreated and humiliated because she had overstayed her student visa by 3 ( Read more... ) -
USB flash drive problem
I have a 1GB Petito USB flash drive (and no, it is not bling-ed out nor do I wear it on a diamond necklace, but it is a small and aesthetically pleasing drive). Whenever I plug it in, two disks mount: a ~1GB disk on /dev/sdb, and a 512MB disk on /dev/sdc. All my data is on the ~1GB disk, since I can't seem to do anything with the 512MB one. It' ( Read more... ) -
Damn you, genetics
Apparently I may have a vitamin D deficiency.
