I recently challenged myself to come up with a way to make udev automatically backup when you plug in a USB harddrive. I did all my testing with a USB stick drive, but since they both show up as block … Continue reading
Screen is a great tool, and it allows you do to alot of neat things. One of my favorites is binding commands to key strokes. So all you have to do is hit F5 and it will start something in … Continue reading
One of the biggest problems with irssi is that if you run it on remote machine, it can be quite hard to get notifications. For the past couple of years, I’ve been running a plugin called fnotify that writes notifications … Continue reading
I’ve come across the need to simply the dvd playing process. I’m having to set up a laptop to play a dvd and use a remote presenter control. Now in the past I’ve just been in charge of this setup, … Continue reading
From what I’ve been able to tell, there is no real version control built into Salesforce.com and this is a problem when pushing from a sandbox instance into a production instance. To fix this problem (at least until Salesforce does … Continue reading
Just setup a TF2 server following this article In Fedora, you need to do the following as root before running any of the commands from the article ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress Now. To figure out how the server.cfg Bookmark on … Continue reading
So, in my time with mutt, I have grown to have a disdain for people that send HTML only email. And surprisingly, this happens alot! So, instead of trying to change the world, I’ve decided to just use mutt and … Continue reading
Prior to starting up the AppleTV or even unboxing it, get your patchstick ready by following these instructions Unbox and setup the AppleTV to your LAN. Then, navigate to the setup->general->updates and make sure you STOP the update if you … Continue reading
A need has arisen here recently for me to need to “change” the headers on an email, so I can tell two people at work apart. Both have their name in the email header the same. Let’s call them “John … Continue reading
Something I’ve found very interesting, is the recent trend to move apps away from the desktop, and out into the “cloud.” Now, for the most part I agree with this. I rejoiced the day I moved from a pop3 account … Continue reading
Well hello there. My name’s Patrick and I’m a pretty technical guy, and I love technical things.
This is blog about stuff that I’ve discovered while working. I might throw random crap in here, but for the most part it will be pretty technical, and may have random bursts of code.
To learn more about me head over to my aptly names about.me page where you can find all the links to my twitter, website and the like.