03.19.08
Belkin OmniGuard 2300 with nut under linux
Just posting this for google to find it, since there’s not much helpful out there online now:
The Belkin Omniguard family of UPSes can be made to work with nut by using the “gamatronic” driver. Neither the belkin nor belkinunv drivers work, bu gamatronic seems to work just fine. I guessed this based on some random post I did find on the internet from someone saying they’d forward-ported something they called the SEC drive from an older nut release; grepping the current nut tree’s source code I found some SEC_xyz defines in the gamatronic driver, so I just tried that, and it worked.
I have a new favorite Unicode character
My favorite used to be the right-to-left override character. My new favorite is the zero width non-breaking space. Just think about that for a minute. Of course, people use it as a byte-order marker at the start of documents, but the concept of a zero-width non-breaking space is just so abstract that I can’t help but love it.02.03.08
$1000 for your genetic profile
So you can now order a complete genetic profile for $999 at http://www.23andme.com/I’m waiting for the facebook app…
Gregor Mendel has scored 93 genetic defects at 23andme. Compare your profile now…
01.03.08
My album cover
Here’s my album cover:
Original image is cc-licensed, and available here.
The quote is from J.M. Barrie and makes a nice pun on the image.
I have no idea what to make of the band name, though it does not seem implausible.
More info on this meme here. Pass it on.
12.10.07
Handy tip for windows remote desktop users…
When you’re remote-desktopped into a (possibly headless) windows machine, Windows helpfully doesn’t include “shutdown” or “restart” options on the start menu. But they’re still there in the task manager. So CTRL-SHIFT-ESC and shutdown to your heart’s content.10.23.07
Microsoft’s C-fonts suck
I installed the Vista “C” font family, since MS swore up and down that it’d improve the web experience, and let me see how the other half lives on Windows. Well, it turns out that the other half sucks:
What you’re looking at is a web page using Colibri in its stylesheet. The font just slobbers all over itself sometimes, for no clear reason. I’m not sure if it’s broken kerning, or what. Maybe it’s Firefox’s problem, who knows. All I know is, I expect to be able to actually read web pages I visit, and this is not helping me.
update: Looks like it renders fine in Safari; it’s just Firefox which doesn’t like Microsoft’s fonts.
