Category Archives: General

Stuff that just is

O2 Pay & Go with an iPhone

Posted on 9/28/2009 by John

So I’m working in London for the week and decided to pick up an O2 Pay & Go SIM card to save a bit of money over AT&T’s roaming charges. Picking up the SIM card was easy at a Carphone … Continue reading →

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Vibram Five Fingers

Posted on 9/1/2009 by John

I’ve needed a new pair of every day shoes to replace my tattered old NewBalance MR1224′s and three weeks ago I decided to hit up ZombieRunner in Palo Alto and try on my first pair of Vibram Five Fingers. The … Continue reading →

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Power Consumption

Posted on 12/10/2008 by John

Tonight I broke down and finally bought a Watts Up Pro to try to figure out the best places to save power and then measure my progress. It’s also handy or figuring out how much Vampire Power your TV, gaming consoles, etc still suck … 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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