Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Geekiest Marketing Ever
Wow, I can't believe someone actually put together a flash to explain that. It's SOOOOOOOOO geeky.
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/31/2006 10:02:00 AM
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Errors in Pkg_add
Saw a lot of this error when I was trying to update my home server.
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
pkg_add(bash-current-bin): unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
This page pointed me at a solution: http://www.interix.com/tools/printable.aspx?m=7093&mpage=2
sh pkg-current-bin25.sh clobber
However, I was still throwing errors...
cp: cannot open '/bin/tar-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/bin/ftp-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/bin/pax-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/ftp.1-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/tar.1-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/pax.1-0': Permission denied
Problem ended up being that these files did not have the group write set. Solution:
chmod g+s /bin/*
Problem solved!
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/17/2006 09:32:00 AM
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Best Exam Answer Ever
HA!
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/09/2006 05:06:00 PM
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HL2 Comic
http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php
I love Half-life 2.. this is a fantastic comic. Thanks Sells!
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/09/2006 01:48:00 PM
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Super High Detail da Vinci
Last Supper (among others)
I can't believe how high quality it is... as well as how responsive it is. Very neat.
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/09/2006 10:00:00 AM
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Monday, May 08, 2006
Soduko Strategies
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/08/2006 05:53:00 PM
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Leading Critics
Q&A on Ethanol Issues
Interesting points... I think his major issue is using only Corn to produce Ethanol, which I believe is not required.
This paper attempts to rebut the position that it takes less energy to make ethanol than one gets out of it. I hope that's not true, but I'm certainly not in a position to judge myself.
This is another pretty good summary article: UC scientist says ethanol uses more energy than it makes A lot of fossil fuels go into producing the gas substitute
Maybe I'm misunderstanding... does E85 Ethanol = the Ethanol that is described above?
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/08/2006 01:36:00 PM
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More on E85
Vinod Khosla E85 Ethanol Presentation via Selling Wheels
Boy, I've search around for a few minutes, and I can't even find anything that REMOTELY has a problem with E85, other than claims that "Big Oil will not support this" (can someone point me at proof of that)? Is this really everything it claims or is it too good to be true? Will you be able to use E85 ethanol in power plants & factories (which make up 1/3 of all pollution)?
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/08/2006 01:13:00 PM
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E-85 Ethanol
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=09091873-84fc-437c-9a79-17cc063cc225&f=rssimbot_us_default
What I really really really want to know is whether or not you save more energy/oil/money/etc producing it than it costs to make it. I know that they mention it as part of the story (they said something along the lines of "10 times the cost to make it", but that seems ridiculously positive), but give me the data!
The other thing they talk about is how "big oil" is against it. Man, are they short sighted on this one. They already have the infrastructure, start using it! If they're not careful, a small set of firms could come along and start offering their own stuff in parallel and completely demolish the oil companies.
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posted by Iron Yuppie
5/08/2006 01:05:00 PM
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