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Posted on July 7, 2010 at 6:24 pm

No Idea that Reuters was so…inappropriate?

By the time you read this Reuters may have removed the headline but they had a very interesting, somewhat, ok REALLY cheeky headline reading Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters I mean…wow…where the hell was the editor on this one eh? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 4:33 pm

HTC Incredible WiFi dmesg

In the previous post I didn’t have my wifi turned on so it didn’t init at all (the BT driver came up even though BT was technically off) so here’s dmesg while cycling the WiFi — interesting that it’s an MMC (SDIO) device! [ 2517.261108] wifi_set_power = 1 [ 2517.261108] incrediblec_wifi_power: 1 [ 2517.567626] wifi_set_carddetect [...]

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 4:25 pm

I haz a DROID + HTC Incredible Specifications

OK, they’ve made things completely muddy. But here’s the rub. The HTC Incredible has 512MB RAM, a 512MB or so “boot ROM” for the kernel and base OS, then you’ve got about 768MB set aside for installing user apps. There’s a further nearly 7GB left for user *data*. This is *IN* the phone. You can [...]

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Educated like it’s 1984

The folks over at Screaming Circuits keep a blog, or at least one of them does.  I tend to read it occasionally.  Recently Duane Benson made the point that colleges tend to educate EEs like it’s 1984.  I think it’s important that students get exposed to thru-hole because they’relikely to be able to unerstand that [...]

Posted on July 26, 2009 at 8:22 pm

New theme

Trying out a new theme. Leopress was getting old and so I a kinda “theme shopping” now.

Posted on February 10, 2009 at 11:03 am

Dynatron-o-mite?

So, as some of you might know, I built a new server.  Haven’t been able to put it into production mostly because of lack of time.  Then when I had time I was noticing strange drive issues.  My SATA drives were going online and offline somewhat randomly.  This went on for about two months while [...]

Posted on February 10, 2009 at 10:23 am

And Linux in General, F-U.

During shutdown Inode 0000010029fa7bc8: orphan list check failed! Well crap.  Guess we’ll be fscking on bootup….this is going to take a while…. /dev/VolGroup00/vz: Inode 80987262, i_blocks is 163148, should be 162952. FIXED. /dev/VolGroup00/vz: Inode 99082779, i_blocks is 11422, should be 11420. FIXED. /dev/VolGroup00/vz: Inode 115564804, i_blocks is 740918, should be 740916. FIXED. /dev/VolGroup00/vz: Inode 136136891 [...]