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Connecting Raspberry Pi running Rasbian to a WPA2 network using a Netgear WG111v2
I got my Netgear wifi dongle working with my raspberry pi model A. Here’s how I did it. Plug in the Netgear WG111 The RPi should see it right away (verify usinglsusb ) and you’ll see something like wlan0 using ifconfig Edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file and add the desired SSID and passphrase you want to connect to: […]
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Random Movie Idea
Random movie idea I came up with while I was in the shower: Humans travel to distant planet full of robots. We share our history with the robots. Robots want to meet our ancestors, we tell the robots that our ancestors are dead. Robots suddenly realize the existence of death and start killing each other. […]
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Motherboard PS/2 Jack Pinout
I’m connecting a (declawed) PS/2 cuecat to an arduino. I needed a female PS/2 jack so I salvaged one from a dead computer motherboard. I couldn’t find pinouts for the jack so I used my multimeter and figured it out. Here are my findings:
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Baby Don’t Hurt Me
I made an acapella cover of What is love by Haddaway for INSANE-O-VLOG. I didn’t cover the entire song, but I think it’s funny. I couldn’t stop laughing when I was singing lyrics so the laughing just made it into the final song. Here’s the .mp3
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GIMP Desaturate Settings
GIMP has a desaturate option. Basically it changes your color picture to a grayscale one. When you desaturate an image, you get a prompt saying, “Choose shade of grey based on:” with three options, “Lightness”, “Luminosity”, and “Average” I’ve always wondered what the difference was, so I tried all three on the same picture to […]
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Arch on ASUS eeePC 701 + Wardriving
I want to try out wardriving so I’m setting up my old eeePC for the task. Puppee linux was on my eee and that just didn’t seem right for wardriving. When talking about distros on my youtube vlog, my friend uberscientist recommended I try Arch linux. I thought it’d be no problem installing because there’s […]
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Me dancing
I was going through some of my older youtube videos and I came across this gem. It makes me laugh every time!
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Animated Propeller
Here’s an animated propeller hat I threw together in GIMP. Click the thumbnails to see the animation. propeller-hat.xcf <- source file (Public Domain)
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Cat in box
Here’s a picture of a cat in a box that I used in INSANE-O-VLOG 094 for the logo of my fictional computer brand, “Cat-in-box PC Computers”. I modified this original image by flickr user thetejon. I removed the corporate logos and barcodes from the box, and removed the background. The background is transparent now. The license is […]
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OSEPP Fio is more better than expected!
For part of a project I’m working on, I just received three OSEPP Fios. I’m hooked on arduino, I want to collect all the types of arduinos so naturally I’m giddy as can be! Ok ok now to what this article is really about. I bought the boards from tigerdirect. They were 17.99 a piece, […]
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Nagios “NRPE: Command ‘check_disk_root’ not defined”
I had this error on nagios for the longest time. “NRPE: Command ‘check_disk_root’ not defined” This problem server, called derp is running NRPE under xinetd. Today I solved the issue! Big thanks to this answer on stackoverflow. In this answer by Jim Black, Jim says, “Be sure you killed off all the old daemons, including […]