I once said that this blog would eventually reach a point where any possible entry could be expressed as a sum of references to previous entries. In this case, it’s this one, this one and this one.

I have maintained that a point will be reached where plain old ordinary Web sites will be forced to turn on SSL encryption by default, or otherwise ( Read more... )

First off, for those who know what I’m talking about and are just as pissed…the fix! (sorta)
Open about:config and set the follwing settings:
browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert: true
browser.ssl_override_behavior: 2

This brings you down from five clicks to “only” two. :-/

So, a while back I got sick of the nag dialogs, caved and updated to ( Read more... )

So I have started getting support emails - “Hey, how do I get your hardware to work in Vista?” Seeming invariably to be the 64-bit version. That’s weird, as far as I know there is a 64-bit build of the drivers included…

Of course, you may have correctly guessed that as an IT semi-professional, I
1) don’t let that poisonous crap anywhere near my home ( Read more... )

Problem: After installing some operating systems such as Vista* in a virtual machine (i.e. as a ‘guest’ OS) under VMWare Player, they cannot access the internet because they don’t have a driver for VMWare’s virtual network card.

Solutions: This driver (and many others such as SVGA, SCSI, sound) are available in the ‘VMWare Tools’ package. ( Read more... )

It’s not quite finished yet, but here are some pictures of what I’ve been working on this week, when not making you-know-whats in my basement dildonics facility.


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Title: Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members

Objective: To develop a highly interactive PC or web-based application to allow family members to verbally interact with “virtual” renditions of deployed Service Members.

This RFP from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD09-H03) floated across my desk the ( Read more... )

You might be familiar with the original Joule Thief, a simple, homebrewable step-up converter often used to drive LEDs (with Vf of several volts) from a single 1.5V battery, or extract the last remaining juice from a battery that’s too dead for use in most real-world gadgets. The basic Joule Thief can suck power from low voltage sources where ( Read more... )

Last night I finished throwing together a workable version of the Weatherball, currently displaying a color code at the end of my flagpole to indicate whether tomorrow holds any interesting weather. Apparently cities and radio stations have been doing it since the 1950s, but now I have my own! The data is grabbed from the NOAA’s National Digital ( Read more... )

Some pictures from our hiking trip a couple weeks ago (Krista, myself, Jane, and Matt). Holy crap, is it fall already? How did that happen?

cexxy version

I’ve been using Paypal as the payment-handling service for my trance vibe project, and overall it’s not too bad. I can even print my own postage for domestic shipments, sticky on a label and not have to drive to the post office to send out an order anymore. But there are a few things about it that are really broken.
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