Author Archives: John

About John

Canadian ex-pat living in San Diego. Hacker, entrepreneur, surfer, scuba diver

Digi Connect ME Discovery

Posted on 10/24/2008 by John

I have a Digi Connect ME powered device that I’ve been trying to interface with from Mac OS X, the only platform Digi does not provide their RealPort drivers for. The Digi Connect ME is a serial to ethernet bridge … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Hacking | 5 Comments

Esquire 75th Anniversary E-Ink Teardown

Posted on 9/8/2008 by John

Back in July, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing Gadgets interviewed Peter Griffin, a Deputy Editor for Esquire. The interview focuses on how Esquire will use E-Ink in it’s October 2008, 75th Anniversary edition. Peter speaks about how they are looking forward … Continue reading →

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When hard disks go boom

Posted on 7/21/2008 by John

I’d been wondering lately why I’ve been getting “Semaphore timeouts” when reading/writing to one of my NAS volumes over NFS from my Vista machine. Today I found out why. I came back in from BBQing some hamburgers to a shrill … Continue reading →

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FUSE for Windows

Posted on 5/23/2008 by John

Many times in the past I’ve had want for the most excellent FUSE to have a Windows equivalent. There are many internet posts on the issue and why it is roughly a million times more complex to do on Windows … Continue reading →

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Funny Google Ad

Posted on 5/19/2008 by John

So I found the following Google Ad in GMail today: Hedge Fund Jobs – www.hedgehogjobs.com – Global Hedge Fund Positions Search for the latest jobs People who know me will find this funny as my nickname is ‘Hedgehog’ or ‘Hedge’ … Continue reading →