I've accepted a contractor position at Barracuda Networks as a Cloud Network Engineer. I'll be starting pretty much immediately.
What does this mean for Mozdev? Well, a mix of things. I'm not going away will be the first thing I can assure everyone. I've really enjoyed my time here and …
read moreHere's the command I found to set the default gnome-terminal height:
gconftool-2 /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec --type string -s 'gnome-terminal --geometry=85x40'
Now when I hit "meta-t" I get the size gnome-terminal that I like.
Oh, to get "meta-t" to work, you might want to set this as well …
read moreWhile I've owned (and will continue to own) silfreed.net for about 9 years now, I think it's time I reasses my online personality.
"silfreed" will probably be a part of me for a long time, but more and more in online and open source circles I'd like people to … read moreLast night I got a letter from Shippensburg University that stated they would no longer being accepting Visa cards for online payment of classes. The reason Visa has dropped is because the university is looking to begin charging a "convenience fee" for using credit cards which will theoreteically save the …
read moreI couldn't get KeePassX to import my PWManager files natively, so I needed a way to do this in a multi-step fashion (I want to use keepass format so I can have the same password program/database on my computer and G1). The easiest appeared to be:
After some fiddling to get MMS working, this is my complete APN setting for AT&T Wireless (blue) mMode:
Name: mMode
APN: proxy
Proxy: 10.250.250.54
Port: 8080
Username: <Not set>
Password: <Not set>
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: http://mmsc.mymmode.com
MMS proxy: 10.250.250.55 …
The next problem I ran into is sending text messages. I believe this is due to my old AT&T Wireless (blue) SIM card. I found instructions on how to set the SMS Center phone number.
Download Any Cut from the Market. Open Any Cut and click "New shortcut" Click … read moreOf course, I love cell phones. They're my gadget crack. So it's not surprising to my friends and family that I bought a new one for my birthday.
I picked up a T-Mobile G1. It's a nice touch screen device that runs an Open Source OS (Linux) with it's own … read moreYou'll be two years old tomorrow, and it's been an amazing experience watching you grow.
Your first birthday was lots of fun, but you were just beginning to interact with people around you. You had a great time smashing your cake, but you didn't really "get" what was going on … read moreI'm trying to get an hdhomerun set up and my firewall is getting in the way.
After stracing the hdhomerun_config binary and seeing that the discover calls out on the network broadcast (192.168.0.255 here) on port 65001 I did some tcpdumping (also knowing my hdhomerun was at … read moreLots of stuff have been going on around here. I've been busy with a number of household projects and Jocelyn and Jared continue to grow.
Project-wise I've been busy setting up some home-automation. It's mostly focused on Christmas-y things right now, but I'd like to move it past that. I … read more