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  Adam Backstrom 6:54 pm on June 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  My letter to the editor was printed in the July ’08 Linux Journal.

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    Katherine Druckman 2:37 am on June 6, 2008 Permalink

    Thanks for writing! Come visit us at linuxjournal.com too

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  Adam Backstrom 8:23 am on June 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  Router configured, noisy Linux box turned off. Next: get a less noisy Linux box.

   
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  Adam Backstrom 9:28 am on June 2, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  I ordered a Linksys WRT54GL router. It’ll get Tomato and will take over for my Linux server.

   
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  Adam Backstrom 1:39 pm on April 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  Vim works with sftp:// and scp:// URLs. :help netrw

   
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  Adam Backstrom 10:38 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  I updated my aggregator to show items oldest-first. That should give me more incentive to keep up with posts.

   
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  Adam Backstrom 8:48 am on April 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  Trying out MacVim.

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    Isaac 9:32 am on April 14, 2008 Permalink

    MacVim is quite nice as far as I’ve been testing, although I’ve moved all of my development (at work) to vim

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  Adam Backstrom 7:37 pm on March 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  My Windows PC failed to boot this morning. In safe mode, the last line that displays is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb. It worked fine two days ago…

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    Justin 11:10 pm on March 31, 2008 Permalink

    MTBF = 2 days.

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  Adam Backstrom 3:07 pm on March 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  I wrote a Python program to spawn multiple copies of non-thread-aware console applications. It’s not perfect, but almost halves the amount of time to convert 200MB of .wav to .flac.

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    Justin 7:03 pm on March 4, 2008 Permalink

    Do you mean non-multi-core-optimized applications? Would it be more accurate to say “200MB of .wavS to .flacS”?

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    Adam 10:18 pm on March 4, 2008 Permalink

    Maybe x 2! Yes, there were 12 .wav files. I ended up rewriting the code to split the work, dividing it up by file size as evenly as I could.

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  Adam Backstrom 9:08 am on February 25, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  The COWON A3 looks decent. Engadget liked it, too. Now all I need is $369.

   
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  Adam Backstrom 8:58 am on February 25, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  In Mac OS X, ctrl-shift-eject will turn your monitor off (via rstevens)

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    Justin 9:26 am on February 25, 2008 Permalink

    It does nothing for me, even with an external display attached.

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    Adam 9:28 am on February 25, 2008 Permalink

    Weird, it works on my MacBook. Have you upgraded to 10.5?

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    Matt 11:51 am on February 25, 2008 Permalink

    Nothing on my MacBook Pro (10.4). I’ll have to try my PowerBook (10.5) when I get home. I’ve been looking for this forever (pressing the brightness button takes waaaay too long)