We spent the last couple weekends putting together some bookshelves. I had a bunch of nice planks in various lengths that I decided to reuse.
Here you can see the basic structure. The horizontals and verticals both have a slot cut out of them so that they interlock. The more accurate the slot cuts the better [...]
The current trial over the Danziger Bridge incident in New Orleans following Katrina reminded me of this email, which was widely forwarded at the time:
Date: September 06 2005
Begin forwarded message:
Two friends of mine-paramedics attending a conference-were trapped in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. This is their eyewitness report. –PG
Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences
Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky
Two [...]
My LIRC / remote control adventures continue (see the two previous posts). I bought a StreamZap, and configured a .lircrc file to control Banshee, the mouse pointer, and the screensaver on my computer, to allow listening of music from across the room.
I had for some reason blindly assumed that the IR receiver that came with [...]
Lirc provides a mouse daemon (lircmd); however, if for some reason you don’t or can’t use lircmd, you can use xautomation as a simple alternative.
The Setup
Refer to my previous post for details on how to select a remote, basic lirc installation & setup, etc. For the sake of this tutorial, you can install lirc and [...]