2007

I decided to get a new case for my main computer today, and chose a micro atx case due to the fact that I’ve always had a big case and am sick of it…

I realized that the small PSU’s that come with micro atx cases might not support my 3 HDDs and1 DVD+RW drive, so I found a great PSU need calculator that I wanted to share.

Here it is.

I’ve been using this for a while now, and have found it a great little trick for accessing services that are blocked due to a firewall.

It’s pretty simple, you just have a few parts to the command string.  The first command argument tells ssh to forward a local port (LP) to a remote machine Remote) on a remote port (RP).  The second part is something you’re probably familiar with, the destination that you’re connecting to (Destination).

I found out recently, like a lot of people, that the AllPeers Firefox extension went Open Source. So naturally, I realized the hype it created and installed it.

Unfortunately, I never tested it, because none of my friends wanted to install it, so there it sat right there in my Firefox installation, dormant. It wasn’t until today that I had problems with it.

I restarted my computer today, and tried to start up Firefox, and it did nothing… So I started up the console, and started Firefox. It started starting up fine, with loading of AllPeers, then had a segmentation fault error…

I recently got a couple fo CD images from a friend in the NRG format, and wanted to burn them to a couple of CD-R’s. Here’s the process I used to do this:

sudo apt-get install nrg2iso
nrg2iso original_image.nrg new_image.iso

Then just use k3b, gnomebaker, or your favorite CD Burning software to burn the ISO.

Jon

I just used the best music player on the planet to organize my music really nicely. It organized them by filetype, first letter of artist, artist, and album. The problem was, it left some dangling folders that I wanted to delete so my library looked clean on the filesystem. So I decided to use a little bit of linux command line fun to get the folders removed.