Saturday: replaced cam cover gasket and spark plugs. The gasket replacement required way too much cleaning. Next time I’ll follow my first instinct and get one from a junkyard to swap out, so the cleaning can be done separately.
Sunday: adjusted rear brakes. I have the fictional self-adjusting rear drums. When it’s [...]
that’s my stapler
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Music past and present
Albums that had no small effect on my life, in no particular order.
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Wendy Carlos – Switched-On Bach
Soundtrack – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
Rose Cousins – If You Were For Me
The Crystal Method – Vegas
Rush – Hemispheres
Thievery Corporation – Sounds From the Verve Hi-Fi
make urxvt update utmp
In Debian Lenny, urxvt isn’t able to update utmp by default. My solution is to simply make it setgid utmp. This might not be the thing to do on a multi-user system, but on my desktop it does what I need it to.
Here’s how to make it persistent between package upgrades
dpkg-statoverride root utmp [...]
Windows Se7en
What’s in the box?
mythtv slow menu response
If you’re experiencing delays navigating mythtv menus, check this out.
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5893
This fix will likely be helpful to me. I plan to roll this into my 0.21.svn20080706 at home as soon as I get time.
today’s ringtone
It occurred to me that not only is Snapshot by The Art of Noise a cool track, it’s almost like it was made to be a ringtone – released in 1984, decades before downloadable ringtone mania. IMO the first 30 seconds or so work the best, but if your phone allows using the whole [...]
tree removal
Soreness continues apace. We removed 5 small trees Saturday using a rented electric chainsaw. Maybe gas powered would have required less work on my part, not sure. A few of the trees were against the house and interfering with gutters and power lines, along with being generally unmaintainable without a cherry picker [...]
what a difference six months makes
Wagoner defends GM’s reliance on SUVs.
In response to analysts’ concerns about GM’s dwindling liquidity in light of the latest slide in demand for its most profitable vehicles and the jump in raw material costs, Wagoner responded that “under any scenario we see, we’re good until the end of the year.”
What an incredible country we live [...]
more awesome than awesome
What’s more awesome than awesome? This.
09:33 < jspears> is there an equivalent to ‘awesome -k’ for awesome3?
09:33 < jspears> I tried just using lua but it seems to error on valid syntax
09:34 < farhaven> I just start another X server
09:34 < farhaven> like this: startx — :1
09:34 < farhaven> and if awesome works fine [...]