Darth Gets Doctored

Darth has been earning his keep the last two weeks by hauling boxes to the new hacienda way the Frak over in Moorhead. Up until Saturday that is, when the alternator decided “Meh, I don’t want to do this anymore.”

In to the Shop he went, and $225 + a day later we’re back on the road hauling worldly possessions.

Since my CRS is getting worse, what with my advancing age, I’m going to blog future vehicle repairs. I know, how exciting. I got goose bumps.

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Moving Sucks

Couple of links that may help -

Lifehacker’s The Start-to-Finish Guide for Moving to a New Place & Simple Moving Tips

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My Shortlist

I want to get these done in the next few weeks;

XBMC Media Server, a.k.a The Magic Elf Box-

Put the better leftover parts together, buy a IR remote and wireless PCI card.

Do some bodywork on the old case to pretty it up. It will be in the living room, after all.

XBMC

Lifehacker's Ultimate XBMC Guide.

PC IR Remote setup.

DIT HD Antenna.

Mount a keyring camera to my shooting glasses.

What would be cool – a bracket to mount the camera to any glasses.

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Geek Desktop

I had a small nerdgasm when I first laid eyes on this.

I wonder if it’s a resource hog.

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Lloyd Kahn – “Shelter is More than a Roof Over Your Head”

SHELTER from jason sussberg on Vimeo.

Mad Chimp

I’m running a few virtual machines, and I try to give each a unique background wallpaper to ease ID’ing each instance. I couldn’t find one for my MadMonkey so I fired up Gimp and whipped this one out.

Turned out pretty good, huh?

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Geek Projects

I've discovered Geek Dad. My favorite article to date is 100 Essential Skills for Geeks from last week.


As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all the skills listed here. I even had to Google a few of them.
Like all good Geeks you should be able to utilize resources to accomplish any of these things. Knowing where to look for the knowledge is as good as having it so give yourself points if you are certain that you could Google the knowledge necessary for a skill.

1. Properly secure a wireless router.
2. Crack the WEP key on a wireless router.
3. Leech Wifi from your neighbor.
4. Screw with Wifi leeches.
5. Setup and use a VPN.
6. Work from home or a coffee shop as effectively as you do at the office.
7. Wire your own home with Ethernet cable.
8. Turn a web camera into security camera.
9. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point.
10. Understand what “There’s no Place Like 127.0.0.1” means.

Read More http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/07/100-essential-skills-for-geeks-geekdad-wayback-machine/#ixzz0uLS6HDeW

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