Category Archives: howto
Sprint Airave
We have Sprint phone service on a family plan. We have unlimited data and decent coverage, except at home. No bars. They sent me an Airave, which is a femtocell, basically a baby cell tower in my basement. But they … Continue reading
Gym Color Temperature
Processing pix from the Sarah McCullagh Memorial Scholarship. Took Nikon NEF (Raw) format to avoid problems with color balance, which is horrible in the gym. From here, “Mercury vapor color temp is around 4200K and CRI in range of 50.” … Continue reading
Git Alias – ignore all whitespace
A talk at last year’s Chicago Code Camp spoke about Git aliases. Up until now I used shell aliases in the (wonderful) MINGW32 Git Bash shell, so “$ gs” is $ git status. $ git diff is something I use … Continue reading
The Genius Continues : Instructable : Replacing the shock absorber in a Felco 7 Pruner
See my Instructable if you are rebuilding a Felco 7 Pruner…
Centos Fun with a locked Boot. Thanks, Hudson 2.1.1.
Say the Hudson script locks up during boot, for example, after you upgrade to 2.1.1 and it does not work and someone said removing the –daemon argument makes it work and something else fails so you roll back the hudson.war … Continue reading
Upgrading Atahualpa
Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website? Me neither.
Pruning Tomatoes
For a long time if have suspected pruning tomatoes would be beneficial, but, after examining the rat’s nest of green on my plants, it just looks too hard. This year, I have an Earthbox with two cherry tomatoes, heirloom Black … Continue reading
Upgrading WordPress in Bulk
Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1”. Show me the command lines. Certainly. “Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed … Continue reading
Final ledger entries
For three days now I have been trying to figure out how to account for payments to the Clinic via PayPal. The money goes into my personal PayPal account, and credits against money owed me for expenses, but I just … Continue reading
Why Unix Rocks – cat
I got an email from a friend where the Word doc attachment was broken into 19 pieces and Base64 encoded. I started to open each file and copy out the payload, then got bored and considered a Perl script. What’s … Continue reading