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NetFlix movie downloading
Netflix accidentally lets you download movies for free. I reported this on March 18th, but they still haven’t replied. It’s been 2 weeks, so I’m posting the details now. While digging through Netflix’s...
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in honor of DST: SW
Since I’ve lost an hour to Daylight Savings Time, I thought I’d record a list of links to Alternate Star Wars Theories. Vader is Kenobi (which fell apart after Ep II, though, too bad). I always knew...
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greasemonkey for RMLS
The house-for-sale listings that RMLSweb.com produces are very detailed, and even include a link to show a map for each house’s address. However, this link goes to MapQuest, which I find infuriatingly...
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construction movies
From the time-lapse construction webcam I set up with Brian, I built a pair of AVIs. These were made with ffmpeg so they use the FMP4 codec. Windows folks can find ffdshow in a number of places. Left...
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Bruce Schneier on attack trends
On Wednesday I attended Bruce Schneier‘s short talk about the trends of online attacks. I figure I need to take his talk with at least a small grain of salt. While he has a reputation to maintain, he...
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grub, yaird, mdadm, and missing drives
This is basically a rant. I spent all my energy tracking down the problems, so I never did get things actually fixed. :P I have my machines configured for software RAID between my primary and secondary...
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smallville, as measured in lana-minutes
I enjoy watching Smallville. I found Lana tiresome almost immediately. Recently, the writers teased us by showing an alternate future where she died. Struck with the possibility of not having to deal...
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lvm article
Bryce wrote a great article on LVM and disk management that I helped do some technical editing on. Hopefully stuff like this will help other people get more comfortable with LVM, and make it less of a...
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slow debian mirror avoidance
ftp.us.debian.org has 4 mirror servers in their DNS round-robin. One of them (216.37.55.114) is very slow (25Kb/s) for me. The others are blazing fast, especially 204.152.191.7 (800Kb/s). I’ve gotten...
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