Update 2011-09-06: The fix worked great until yesterday. That’s probably about three and a half months. I solved the problem more permanently this time. I just unplugged the ribbon cable for the capacitive button bar. I now have fewer lights...
Read the post →When I first saw Zachary Wasserman’s Go Command, I wasn’t entirely convinced that it was a good idea. I figured you could get similar functionality with less typing by enabling autocd, properly configuring binfmt_misc, and setting the execute bit on...
Read the post →I had my first btrfs file system failure this week. The root/home btrfs volume on the Intel X25-M SSD in my laptop became unmountable on Sunday night. It was functioning just fine with no signs of any problems, but it...
Read the post →I have had my old HTC Dream sitting around collecting dust for months. I have been trying to come up with a cool use for it for months. After all that time, I think I finally may have come up...
Read the post →I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 a little over a week before it was scheduled to be released. I ran into three problems:
Read the post →Cave Story is a platform game for the PC that was released back in 2004, it was also recently ported to the Nintendo Wii and DS. It is an excellent game that has a very old school feel to it...
Read the post →Update 2012-10-17: The slow start up with the newer zsh package was my own fault. In my transition to Prezto, I unintentionally removed the skip_global_compinit=1 from my .zshenv file. The global start up scripts for zsh-beta don’t call compinit, but...
Read the post →CyanogenMod 7-RC4 dropped just a few days ago and it is a very exciting release as far as the Nook Color is concerned. As of release candidate four, CyanogenMod is officially supporting the Nook Color, and hardware acceleration of video...
Read the post →I’ve been wanting a better Android tablet for quite a while now. I’ve had the Eken M001 for quite a while now, but it isn’t a very usable tablet (especially after I bricked it). The battery doesn’t last long, the...
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