Tech & Toys
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iCal calendars
Found this cool site:
lots of calendars for various things, nice one for the Rugby World Cup.
webcal://ical.mac.com/edhayes/Rugby32W_Cup.ics (Broken link
//ical.mac.com/edhayes/Rugby32W_Cup.ics)
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Serial Cable Tutorial
While researching Terminal Servers I found this (Broken link
http://www.cyclades.com/products/3/alterpath_acs/white_papers/3) very useful tutorial from cyclades.
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Setting the hostname
/etc/hostconfig
is where OS X gets the hostname of the machine from. Change the line that reads:HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
to:
HOSTNAME=trillian
Change
trillian
in the above line to whatever you want your machine to be called. Aparently there is a demon that you can restart for this change to take effect, but I dont know what it is so a restart is required.
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Memtest
If you need to check the ram on your machine and you happen to be running gentoo:
pddb-a01 linux # emerge -p memtest86 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/memtest86-3.0-r1
and then add this to grub.conf:
title=memtest kernel (hd0,0)/memtest86/memtest.bin
Reboot and the choose the memtest option.
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OS X ftp and sftp client
Found this (Broken link
http://icu.unizh.ch/~dkocher/cyberduck/) cool ftp/sftp client for OS X, tis GPL too.
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Virtual Desktops
finally! there is a nice GPL virtual desktop ute, here
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HTML Colour tools
This one is very nice, a simpler one can be found here (Broken link ~~http://mediagods.com/tools/color_helper.html~~). This (Broken link
http://mediagods.com/tools/rgb2hex.html) is a simple RGB to hex converter and finally there are some (Broken linkhttp://mediagods.com/tools/) usefull other tools on MediaGods.com (Broken linkhttp://mediagods.com/)
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IPCalc
Just found this cool tool while looking for ip calculators, also has a cgi (Broken link
http://jodies.cx/ipcalc_cgi) wrapper. Home page here
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Rescanning the SCSI bus under Linux
Just recently needed to tell Linux (2.4.18 on redHat 7.1SBE) to rescan the scsi buss for recently added luns, after looking around I’ve found this (Broken link
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/) useful page with this (Broken linkhttp://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh) handy little script which did the trick.
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Linksys WET11 Wireless Ethernet Bridge
I’ve just recently bought one of these, I primarily bought it so i didnt need to run an extra piece of ethernet to the Xbox. It works perfectly, just tell it what SSID it should join and what your WEP settings are and plug it in. It works seamlessly with any ethernet device which is already configured for your lan. Brilliant.