The Inspiration and Evolution rebreathers from AP Diving are really good rigs, but the design of their housing and harness systems have always limited the flexibility of the units to a degree. The housings are quite fragile, and because they do not use a metal backplate, clipping in side-mounts always seems to be more of [...]
When you install RHEL, the filesystems are labeled for you. Usually you won’t have to mess with it anymore, but on occasion, you may want to change them to more accurately represent the data that is stored on that partition. If, for instance, you used to have all of your database files on a partition [...]
If you manage a UNIX system with a large number of directories that vary in size, chances are that you’ve needed to figure out which ones are using up the most disk space. Of course if the directories are user accounts, the best way to do this is to enable quotas and use the “repquota” [...]
With the exception of “Bottlerocket” I’m pretty much a fan of all Wes Anderson movies, but I have to say that “The Life Aquatic” is by far my favorite. The other day I went looking for team-zissou.mp3 so that I could make it the ringtone on my cellular phone when I stumbled across this set [...]
Kids… DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! If this is not done exactly right, you will render your system unbootable and corrupt your data. That being said, under some circumstances you can take some space from your swap partition and add it to an unused one without initializing your entire disk. This is particularly useful [...]
James Carville seems to lack the ability to understand that his myopic view of political campaign funding is outdated and wrong. DNC Chairman Howard Dean has always flown in the face critics like Carville by asserting that the DNC should fund Democratic campaigns in all fifty states, and his plan works! Democratic candidates have won [...]
My passport has expired, and I’m renewing it by mail. You have to send your existing passport to them as proof of identity, and parting with it got me thinking about how cool the stamps that you get at various ports of entry around the world are. I understand that when you renew your passport [...]
Many system 5 UNIX variants use scripts in the /etc/rcN.d/ directories to control which services should be started in the various runlevels. If, for instance, you wanted the secure shell daemon to run in runlevel 4, you would put a script named something like “S55sshd” in “/etc/rc4.d”. This script would usually accept the “start” “stop” [...]
With the help of my friend in Reno, I was finally able to get my gas blending system together and working. This system will allow me to connect nearly any type of industrial gas cylinder to any type of SCUBA or medical oxygen tank. I can even connect it up directly to banks of 4500 [...]
Donald Rumsfeld has stepped down. Democrats have won a sweeping majority in the house of representatives and as Webb declares victory in Virginia and Tester pulls out a victory in Montana, it seems that the Senate is falling into Democratic hands as well.
Republicans are famous for pointing fingers at their foes, while circling their wagons [...]
A long time ago I had a video up with my piranha, Officer Angry, eating some raw shrimp off a stick. Casey edited it up for me, and it turned out to be pretty entertaining. Anyhow, I just stumbled upon it and thought I would upload it to google video. Enjoy.
In order to overthrow the tyranical Republican leadership, I’ve been towing the Democratic line pretty hard since the 2000 elections, in which, along with many others, I voted for Ralph Nader and unwittingly helped Bush and his cronies to power.
Despite my year 2000 voting embarrassment however, I remain a proponent of a political landscape that [...]
Faced with loosing control of congress, Cheney and his pack of radical conservatives have sunk to an all-time low. According to his statements on Fox News (imagine that) insurgents are stepping up their violence in Iraq with the hopes that we will vote the Republicans out of office.
Cheney: “Whether it’s al Qaeda or the other [...]
