Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy

Mounting the K750 under Linux

fdi for using the Sony Ericsson 750i


Shuffle redux

fdi for automounting the iPod shuffle


Random hardware

I was given a brand-new iPod shuffle this weekend (thanks Che!). Not only do I now get the fresh experience of owning technology that’s not already considered obsolete, I also haven’t owned a piece of personal stereo technology since the crappy generic-brand personal cassette player I had when I was 13. While I’m not a Apple design fetishist, it is [...]


Networking UML under Debian

I recently needed to setup the networking on a Debian box with three network cards on three different networks, each assigned three IP addresses – two of which would be assigned to taps for UML hosts. It was actually a little more complex that I was expecting. Of the few configuration examples I’ve seen on the web, none [...]


Treason uncloaked!

I just got an email from logcheck consisting of lines similar to the following: kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 218.69.139.x:43090/80 shrinks window 1468046648:1468049476. Repaired. Treason uncloaked! Fantastic. Another unintelligible, jocular message flagging unusual error conditions. Very “printer on fire”. (Either that, or a babelfish translation of something that sounded reasonable. And to be fair, you’ll only see it [...]