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18 Oct 2011 »

I say!

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

Gracious, old chum! There's something completely irregular about these goings-about, I tell you! Most unusual!

Syndicated 2011-10-18 06:58:30 from jon's blog

17 Oct 2011 »

Syndicated 2011-10-17 01:26:47 from jon's blog

17 Oct 2011 »

Just used the Ubuntu "usb-creator-gtk" utility to make a bootable amd64 Ubuntu 11.10 USB drive. After I finished, there was a "test disk" button. I thought it'd verify the disk. Instead it launches a working QEMU and boots the bloody thing in a subwindow, which I'm currently posting to LiveJournal under Firefox out of.

That is actually impressive work by the team involved.

Syndicated 2011-10-16 23:08:06 from jon's blog

13 Oct 2011 »

Fitting eulogy

(stolen from http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/rip-dmr.html )

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("goodbye, dad\n");
    return 0;
}

Syndicated 2011-10-13 06:14:57 from jon's blog

13 Oct 2011 »

RIP Dennis Ritchie

Thanks for everything, Dennis.

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FjX7r5icV8&t=38

Syndicated 2011-10-13 01:05:55 from jon's blog

10 Oct 2011 »

Posted using LJ Talk...

Cat, what are you doing there? You are not a FireWire adapter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B001KN8PSK/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all You don't even have a 1394 port. You are cute though.

Syndicated 2011-10-10 22:14:50 from jon's blog

8 Oct 2011 »

all I could think was Brad Pitt looking at a box of leftovers yelling "what's in the box?"

Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.

Syndicated 2011-10-08 19:03:19 from jon's blog

7 Oct 2011 »

smbclient + time capsule

I *clearly* cannot be experiencing problems connecting to an Apple Time Capsule (latest firmware) from Ubuntu 11.04 using "smbclient". That bug (the one that noted that a built-from-scratch Samba works, whereas the packaged one doesn't) was marked "fixed" a while ago.

Syndicated 2011-10-07 12:18:23 from jon's blog

2 Oct 2011 »

GreenArrays and SchmartBoard Make the GA144 Chip Accessible to Experimenters http://www.ecnmag.com/Blogs/2011/09/M-Simon/GreenArrays-and-SchmartBoard-Make-the-GA144-Chip-Accessible-to-Experimenters/?et_cid=2156453& et_rid=45551987

Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.

Syndicated 2011-10-02 03:34:29 from jon's blog

29 Sep 2011 »

wmic uninstall returnvalue 1603

If you're trying to use the Windows command line to uninstall something:

C:\>WMIC product where name="Program To Remove" call uninstall

...and you see "execution successful - returnvalue 1603" but nothing happened...

...you're not running with admin privileges. Do either:
Start->AllPrograms->accessories->[RightClick]Command Prompt->RunAsAdministrator
or:
Start->type "cmd", [ctrl]+[shift]+[return]
and in both cases say "yes" to the UAC query, if active. You can now rerun your WMIC command and it will work.

Syndicated 2011-09-29 22:39:30 from jon's blog

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