Matthew Winters Bouldering. Tagged for me to remember later, I want to go find that boulder and record it with my GPS. I was on the Mathew Winters trail about a month ago and came across a guy with a crashpad, he said there was a really great boulder just around the corner from where we were. I wonder if this is Millenium Rock in Google Maps? Looks about like the right location and it's the only rock that size there. #>
Optimal remote backups with rsync over Samba. Interesting, now to see if I can go the other way (backup my work laptop to my Kubuntu desktop and then to an external drive...) #>
Meet the Gimp, a video podcast about the free graphics software GIMP. #>
For pitchers, Coors Field humidor is nirvana. No, not for the celebratory cigars, but for the baseballs. #>
London Olympic flame to be carbon neutral. "Carbon neutral" is certainly getting to be a buzzword, isn't it? #>
Mayor to Ease Permit Rules for Capturing City’s Image. No need for everyone with a camera to get a permit before pressing the shutter button. #>
Nomadic Furniture gives instructions on how to build lightweight furniture that folds, knocks down, stacks or is disposable and can be recycled. Despite the hippy-ish hand-drawn illustrations, this book offers some interesting and rather modern furniture designs. Design Within Reach isn't exactly within mine, but if I can diy my own reasonable facsimile, I'm pretty happy.#>
Flash Gordon’s Concrete Drill. Wow, just melt then punch your way through it huh? #>
CSS Round Corners using no images, just a few extra classes in your HTML/CSS. #>
DIY Mini 8 Page Pocket Zine! I don't know about calling it a "zine" but it's a neat idea that some folds and a single cut in a sheet of paper can give you such a portable way to carry around information. Shrink down your class notes, your favotire web development cheat-sheet, whatever, and you have a very nice way to carry it around. I might just put some lines on it and have something handy to write on, kind of like a poor-man's Moleskine. #>
Last week I was in official Sun training, the class was "Solaris 10 New Features for Sysadmins". We covered a ton of new things, especially new to me since I'm not your normal sysadmin. Doing some poking around online I came across this VMWare "appliance" containing Solaris 10 for x86 with 3 Zones (zones were one of the new features we covered.)
Unfortunately I was having some problems booting the virtual machine with VMWare Player. Fortunately for me, VMWare also has a community section, and I wasn't the only one having a problem with this VM. The solution lies in the post by "agnosticism", which is:
- At the grub boot prompt, press the 'e' key on your keyboard.
- Move your cursor down the line started with "kernel", then to the end of that line.
- Add in the words "kernel/unix" (without the quotes). Press
. - Press 'b' on your keyboard to boot with the new parameter.
This fix allowed me to actually bring up the VM and start playing with all the shiny new features of Solaris 10 I'd just learned about. If you'd like to make that fix permanent, rather than having to go through those steps every time you boot the VM, just add the "kernel/unix" bits at the end of the "kernel" line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file once you get logged into the appliance. #>
Jason's Date Input Calendar, a nice little chunk of Javascript to make selecting a date on your forms much easier. #>
Emusic Free Trial - 25 Free Downloads. I've used Emusic before and was happy with their service, it's just that the payment plan of "pay every month and download some" didn't fit with my purchasing style, which tends to be rather "bursty" in how much new music I buy at once. #>
Five Dollar Ring Light. One of these, a socket adaptor that plugs into an extension cord, an extension cord, and you'd be set. #>
On the Trail With IMBA, written by the folks selected as their traveling "Trail Care Crew" who drive around North America and help new trails get built. #>
Bike Biz Babe, a blog by a "brand manager" for a bike manufacturer. Worth keeping an eye on if you are into mountain bikes. #>
