Jim's Depository

Thoughts on cross platform and jquery/CSS3/

jim — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:07:41 -0500

After piddling around with jQuery,CSS3, and the

4k sector disks on Debian Squeeze

jim — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:22:24 -0500

My new Western Digital Green 2TB (WDC WD20 EARS-00MVWB0) drives have 4k sectors, but they report as 512 byte for compatibility. Linux 2.6.32 and the fdisk on squeeze will do the wrong thing by default and place partitions on bad boundaries.

An external USB drive enclosure that supports S.M.A.R.T.

jim — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:10:46 -0500

Today, my gift to you: After extensive research and testing, I have found a 3.5" SATA⇒USB enclosure that will work with smartmontools to allow you to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. data of your drive. This one may be unique in that I have an actual link you can click and buy the enclosure!

Web Storage and privacy.

jim — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:56:52 -0500

I was experimenting with HTML-5 Web Storage when I realized Safari wasn't showing me my storage use under the Safari⇒Preferences…⇒Security⇒Show Databases panel. A little find action shows that they live in databases named things like ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage/http_SITENAME_0.localstorage, and good heavens there are a lot of them!

New Toy: Kodak Pulse, 7" wifi picture frame

jim — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:38:26 -0500

I ordered a pair of Kodak Pulse 7" wifi picture frames from Provantage about 90 days ago which was long enough to forget, so it was like a little surprise gift to myself.

Some code optimization

supadupa — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:22:27 -0500

I posted my code optimization with explanations regarding assembler etc at http://geekofpassage.blogspot.com/2010/05/win2k3r2ee-virtual-appliance-running-in.html

Setting up nginx and lua fastcgi on Debian Squeeze

jim — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:06:34 -0500

The available pages I can google about this seem overly complicated. This one documents setting up nginx to run lua scripts on Debian Squeeze. These instructions are derived from http://www.unreliablepollution.net/p/other/howto-nginx-and-lua and a dozen remedial googleings.

Glad it's not my bug.

jim — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:20:51 -0500

3:14am, spring daylight savings time day. The church bells across the street have been ringing for 14 minutes.

Declining to use Coda on Debian

jim — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:41:49 -0600

After my dismal failure at Pohmelfs, I shopped for alternative distributed files systems. I can't tell if CODA is abandoned or not, but I'll give it a try.

Failing to use POHMELFS in Linux 2.6.33

jim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:10 -0600

I've enjoyed reading zbr's blog postings about POHMELFS and the Elliptics network for years. With POHMELFS in the staging directories of Linux 2.6.33 and me needing to share some files across several machines, it is time to try it out.