http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog My notes and rants about tech things Thu, 20 May 2010 17:46:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So with steam coming out on the Mac and with the Humble Indie Bundle working on all three, there is a problem with keeping all of your saves in sync. Not any more. This is all thanks to dropbox. What is dropbox? Dropbox is a cross-platform application / website that ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2010/05/20/syncing-saved-games-between-windows-mac-linux-with-dropbox/ 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 devices to the kernel, it shouldn't matter. UDEV Rules To start ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/09/25/automatic-backups-with-udev/ 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 the background.  Such as a build command.  The problem is, ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/09/18/external-programs-that-update-screen/ 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 to a file, then using another script I read that ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/08/31/irssi-mumbles-push-notification-goodness/ 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, and haven't had to worry about explaining how to start ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/06/12/dvd-player-with-xsessions/ 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 something), I think the best option is to use the ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/04/29/salesforcecom-and-subversion/ 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 http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/04/24/tf2-server/ 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 lynx to my advantage and call it a day.  Thanks ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/04/21/mutt-and-lynx/ 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 can.  The update won't technically break anything, but there are some problems ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/03/10/boxee-and-appletv/ 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 Doe."  So in order to tell them apart, I've added ... http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2009/02/23/reverse-alias-in-mutt/