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Crazy title, I know. If you’ve got a Garmin Vista Cx, Legend Cx, Vista Cx or similar, and a Linux box, here’s how to load a set of geocaching.com cache locations onto the unit: First, download and install gpsbabel from SourceForge. Make sure that you have the package libusb-devel installed so that you get the [...]
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To try to compat all this image-spam thats been coming through lately, I boosted up a bunch of my spamassassin rule values to try to filter things out. The only rule that the image spam was hitting were a bunch of the different “blacklist” and “black hole” servers that spamassassin can use. So, when a [...]
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I’ve been battling all the image spam thats been happening lately, and my current solution has been to look at the messages that make it through my spam filters, and boost the scores for those rules. The weird part is that my Fedora Core 4 installation has spamassassin-3.0.6, and the latest is version 3.1. So, [...]
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Today (its hot!) my wife was complaining that she can’t access our internal website(s) from her internal computer. The problem is that the external DNS resolution results in an external IP address, which routes back inside our net, which the Sveasoft router just couldn’t handle. I had manually “fixed” this problem by editing my /etc/hosts, [...]
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I upgraded one of the machines I use to the “Breezy Badger” ubuntu release, and playback of mp3 files over http in xmms stopped working. Well, it was still working, but the audio sounded horrible — lots of glitching and weird high pitched noises about 2 or 3 times a second. The weird part was [...]
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Well, avrwiki is now its own entity! I’ve redirected a bunch of incoming links to point there, but I think you should check it out! I still need to make a better Main Page / entrance, but this will do for now!
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My AVR Wiki has risen from the dead! Over 2 years ago, I ran a great AVR Microcontroller related wiki. That is, until I attempted to upgrade the wiki software, and trashed the whole database. Plus, I couldn’t even get the new install up and running again. Its garbage. Well, today I finally got around [...]
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hugin, the Open Source Panorama stitching tool, is now available for x86_64, which means I can now run it on my screaming fast Athlon. Sweet! I went here and followed the “Manual Yum Instructions”
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Hi, my name is Fedora Core “Bordeaux”, and today I am 5. When I turned 4 last year, they got a funny salesman to talk about me like I was a toy. I like toys. But today Teacher said I am a big kid, and I should talk about myself. I can do lots of [...]
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The unix command “xargs” has a really cool argument that can be used to parallelize just about any batch process that you can think of running. The manual page describes this: –max-procs=max-procs, -P max-procs Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1. If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many [...]
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