Point the first: The open-source FlightGear flight simulator is pretty darn neat. It’s no X-Plane or MS Flight Simulator, and it’s still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s pretty amazing to me that an open-source project could get something like this together. It took me a while to remember how things work (and […]

The VooDoo Tesla II is the quietiest yet most dynamic power cord we have ever heard. Every nuance of sonic texture and detail literally dances in the holographic expanse of the soundstage. And you can’t plug something like that into just any old wall socket.

This amuses me way, way more than it should: Return of the eyebrow thief!

I’m what you might call a heavy procmail user. My procmailrc spans about 700 lines in six files, plus three or four additional programs to reformat and handle messages along the way. I’m currently in the process of moving to Dreamhost, though, and there’s one mail problem there that I had to work around: they […]

From a local ISP; I’m sure this seemed like a great idea at the time. 220 mx2.avalonworks.net ESMTP Postfix helo hostname-of-internal-mailserver.mati.ca 250 mx2.avalonworks.net mail from:<rich@mati.ca> 250 Ok rcpt to:<test@igs.net> 554 <hostname-of-internal-mailserver.mati.ca>: Helo command rejected: Host not found Er, sorry, what failed? I guess it forgot to tell me way back then. I thought for a […]

Pictured is a section of the toolbar in pcAnywhere, the Windows remote-control application. The buttons, left to right, are: Send ctrl-alt-delete Reboot remote system Disconnect pcAnywhere Hm! One of these things is not like the others… Since you have to click the left one to login to Windows when you first connect to the remote […]

A long time ago I came across Sippey’s blogsnaps, and noted it as something which would be good to automate. Earlier today Brad posted a quick way to take a screenshot of a webpage, and it was pretty straightforward to expand it in The result is webshot, which requires ImageMagick and Xvnc. If someone has […]