After a bit of drama with my old pair of glasses, I went out and got myself an eye exam to update my prescription and have ordered myself a pair of tie-dye frames from Zenni Optical for $40! They are made of so much win and awesome:
I know you’re jealous. Don’t feel bad, it’s okay, you should be. These frames even come with 581% more cowbell.
For my own notes, my prescription is now -5.50 OD/OS sph, DS (SPH) cyl, and PD 32/33 (65).
Tags: vision, glasses, Zenni Optical, tie-dye
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I needed to re-enable service updates on my SA2 TiVo tonight and I’d forgotten how to toggle it after having disabled them when I first hacked my TiVo, and had a tough time finding the information so I figure I’ll post it to my blog so I’ll be able to find it again.
The key command is bootpage – use “bootpage -p /dev/hda” to see the current settings. Then, use “bootpage -P "..." /dev/hda” to change them. Specifically, change “upgradesoftware=false” to “upgradesoftware=true” or vice versa.
Tags: TiVo, hacks, reference
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In order to get afacli working on Ubuntu Hardy, I did these things:
1. Get afa-apps-snmp.2807420-A04.tar.gz from Dell.
2. Get libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 from Debian afacli depends on libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3.
Since I’m running Ubuntu x86_64, I put libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 in /usr/lib32. Installing the rpm package under Ubuntu provides rpm2cpio which I used to extract afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm like this:
$ rpm2cpio afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm | (cd / && cpio -iudvm)
That’s it. You now have /usr/sbin/afacli.
Tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Adaptec, afacli
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Last week, I wrote that Wolfram Alpha still couldn’t answer such important (ha) questions such as “How is babby formed?“
As you might expect, Wolfram Alpha’s gotten smarter already. Look:
That’s what I call awesome. Well done, guys.
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