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I was sitting here at my desk earlier, my phone was sitting on it's wireless charger and I got a text. While it's on the wireless charger, it's parallel to the desktop which makes it somewhat a pain in the ass to use it while not taking it off the charger. OK, so I could just pick it up and set it back on the charger when I was done but, why interrupt a good thing...

So, I decided that I would make a stand to hold both the phone and charger. I grabbed my favorite jigsaw and some scrap wood I had leftover from another project and went to work.

It certainly isn't the most attractive stand but, it works perfectly. Not too bad for a spur of the moment project honestly. I am also thinking of covering the front of it with some black felt. That way it'll completely hide the wireless charger. And as a bonus, it will hide some of my crappy, hacky craftsmanship. ;)

. #blogpost #phone #stand #build #hacking #FillingAVoid

So finally, after repeated requests from my kids (my middle one, anyway), I decided to see why my #Slackware 64 rig was crashing more often than not over the weekend. Shown was the reason why. This machine has been going strong for a good few years now (not consistently, but more on than off). I checked the hardware monitor in the BIOS and the CPU temp was ~130°F. It was then that I realized it was time to dust off my PC building skills and fix the problem. After removing the dust from between the fan and the heatsink along with the dried up thermal pad residue, some fresh thermal paste later and the beast was purring like a kitten again with temps of ~84°F whilst running my son's Tekkit games. And all was good in MirandaLand again. :-)

First-person shooters for #Linux. Some of these I know, others I'll have to check out. ;-)

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-big-list-of-linux-fps-games-heres-over-30-to-check-out.3332

Achievement Unlocked: TIMESINK! :-) #infocom #hhgttg #h2g2 #bbc

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/bbc-releases-30th-anniversary-edition-of-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-text-adventure-game-you-have-died-and-gone-to-gaming-heaven/

Damn kids today. They have it too good.

getoffmylawn

http://digg.com/video/kevin-bacon-explains-the-80s-to-millennials

Darkness at ten minutes to 7 AM. #IHateTimeChanges

Time for us #Linux users to eat crow for ragging on #Apple about this.  Only difference is that our updates come in rather timely, as in just a few hours or so.  This explains the update I got on my #Slackware box early this morning. #GnuTLS  

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/critical-crypto-bug-leaves-linux-hundreds-of-apps-open-to-eavesdropping

Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. [...] The new geometric version of quantum field theory could also facilitate the search for a theory of quantum gravity that would seamlessly connect the large- and small-scale pictures of the universe. Attempts thus far to incorporate gravity into the laws of physics at the quantum scale have run up against nonsensical infinities and deep paradoxes. The amplituhedron, or a similar geometric object, could help by removing two deeply rooted principles of physics: locality and unitarity.

2013-09-21 22:04:00, frank The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. This demons...

1. For each host, I create a file of SHA2 sums. I'm trying to move away from MD5 sums, although they're probably fine for this application. I use GNU Parallel to keep things going quickly; I think for compute-intensive jobs like crypto sums this makes sense.
   
   find $BACKUPDIR -type f -print0 | parallel -q0 --gnu sha224sum > ~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_sha224sums.txt
   
   
2. For each host, I make a sorted, uniq'd file of just the sums:
   
   cut -f1 -d" " ~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_sha224sums.txt | sort | uniq > ~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_justsums.txt
   
   
3. I have one computer that's my most recent that I want to keep. So I use "comm" to find checksums that are on other computers that aren't available on that computer:
   
   comm -13 ${KEEPER}_justsums.txt ${HOSTNAME}_justsums.txt > ${HOSTNAME}_uniquesums.txt
   
   Technically these aren't actually unique; they're just not on the keeper computer.
   
   
4. Finally, I convert the unique sums into filenames by referencing the original sums file:
   
   for cs in `<~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_uniquesums.txt`; do grep -m1 $cs ~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_sha224sums.txt | cut -f3 -d" " >> ~/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_uniquefilenames.txt; done
   
   
5. From there, I sort the unique filenames and then manually (!!) decide what to copy to the "keeper" computer. The signal-to-noise ratio is too low for me to do much automation, except for when I have a directory that I can rsync over in total.
   
   There are just a ton of files that are too useless to copy - temp files, dot files, etc.

A heavy concrete block appeared on the front lawn of The Paseo Grill in Oklahoma City on Friday. Restaurant owners aren't quite sure what to make of the monument or its reference to H.P. Lovecraft's fictional deity, Azathoth.