Month: November 2007

More on my broken S-presso

I mentioned a few days ago that my Asus S-presso PC quit working. Last night, I opened up and did a bit of surgery in a failed attempt to revive it. I had been thinking that the power supply died, since none of the fans spin up....

General

SSH through an HTTP proxy

To SSH (OpenSSH) through an HTTP proxy, you can use the ProxyCommand config option with one of several programs that know how to talk to an HTTP proxy using the HTTP CONNECT method. The one I use is called corkscrew and it works...

MacProgrammingPython

Hacking OS X’s Python dbhash and bsddb modules to work

By default on my Leopard system, the dbhash and bsddb Python modules cannot be loaded. marc@hyperion:~$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 21:08:09) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help",...

General

links for 2007-11-28

Apple - Support - Discussions - Keyboard randomly stops working after ... A super-annoying bug that causes MacBook Pro keyboards to occasionally freeze. Mine has started doing this every now and then. (tags: apple mac osx bug)...

Emacs

Emacs: Writing to read-only files

Just found this little gem regarding read-only buffers in Emacs: A buffer visiting a write-protected file is normally read-only. Here, the purpose is to inform the user that editing the buffer with the aim of saving it in the...

General

Shuttle bus breakdown

I take a shuttle bus to work every day that I can. Today our bus broke down right by the interchange between highways 85 and 280. Luckily another bus was nearby and was able to pick us upÂ around 15 minutes later or so. The...

Books

Finished The Rise of Endymion and the Hyperion series

A few nights ago I finished reading The Rise of Endymion and thus, the entire 4-book Hyperion series. Total # of books read: 4 Total # of pages read: 2336 That's a lot of pages and if that scares you, then I might suggest reading...