Author Archives: dave

God of Carnage

Posted on July 11, 2015 by dave

Saw “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza last night with our friend Shannon Mayhall giving her usual magnificent performance. Dark, funny, and 80 minutes just flies. Make sure you sit behind the “tulip row”. At the Black Box Theater, McHenry … Continue reading →

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Fun with Dell Laptop WiDI

Posted on July 5, 2015 by dave

I was messing around with the WiDi driver to stream the Grateful Dead show tonite and disabled the Intel Video driver. At this point, the machine started up, did POST, did the swirly page and then a blue dim (not … Continue reading →

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Dirty Printer Test Page

Posted on April 12, 2015 by dave

I started getting vertical dark lines in my ADF scans on the the highly great Canon MF4570dw Laser/Multifunction. Use this to determine location of small bits of dust on your scans. Then clean the glass under the ADF guide, slide … Continue reading →

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Subversion on 1&1, redux.

Posted on January 6, 2015 by dave

Looks like someone used my post on building svn on 1&1 hosting. I am such an AUTHORITY. I just wish I could figure out how to build 1.8 without running out of memory. Andy has some hints for 1.6. Fails … Continue reading →

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Wordbooker is dead

Posted on January 6, 2015 by dave

Wordbooker is a WordPress plugin to post to Blog and Facebook at the same time? Saves time. Steve the author decided it wasn’t worth it — free support and complaining jerks. Bummer. When it worked it saved time. I guess … Continue reading →

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New Windows desktop computer with full C drive? Check OS hibernate settings.

Posted on October 14, 2014 by dave

On my new work desktop computer with Windows 7, I noticed a 30Gb file hiberfil.sys filling drive C. Since I don’t use the hibernate function, I can disable it. From a command shell as Administrator G:\> PowerCfg.exe -H off The … Continue reading →

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lineman-angular updated to ng-annotate

Posted on September 27, 2014 by dave

We use LinemanJS to automate the build process of various AngularJS projects. Two newer projects use the most excellent UI-router package, and I had some issues. The resolve section required manual protection for minification; ngmin, the automatic minify protector included … Continue reading →

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Wise counsel, indeed

Posted on August 30, 2014 by dave

“If you are going to eat shi*, don’t nibble,” he says, in a phrase that should be immortalised in corporate finance textbooks. Quoted from a Horowitz financial controller, from the review of The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist, in … Continue reading →

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17 pounds and 4 inches of Carbon Neutral

Posted on May 12, 2014 by dave

Bing bong! Who is that disturbing my workout? After opening the door, I hear the UPS getaway truck speeding into the distance. Look down. See the shrink wrapped pile. 8 catalogs. 17 pounds. 4 inches thick – at least two … Continue reading →

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Morning Phase

Posted on March 25, 2014 by dave

After listening to Beck’s Morning Phase on Rhapsody non-stop for the last few days, I have to say: best album of 2014. Now make it stop.

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