For many years I have scoffed at the idea of backing up my hard drives. Why should I need to do that? Hard drives don’t lose data anymore, they are fine-tuned machines! While this is true, there are a lot of reasons to implement a good backup policy. The most obvious of course is hard-drive failure; [...]

Holy crap.. I’ve been busy for so long that my own login cookie expired! Suffice to say that between Spacesystems Design, Advanced Mechanics of Structures, and Spacecraft Dynamics its been a brutal few weeks at Skule. I’m now in somewhat of a brief respite, you could say a lull before the storm of Midterms. Once Midterms [...]

Note: I am running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) LTS I recently set up my desktop computer in Toronto to accept SSH connections, and opened the port (22) on my router so that I could remotely manage my computer whenever I go back to Peterborough. I played around with port tunneling too, which basically tunnels any TCP [...]

Its September and I’m settling back into the groove of Skule for one more year. Of course you all know what that means, right? Television shows are returning to bathe us in their electronic glow! I’m finding that I have a lot of shows that I want to watch this year, like Battlestar Galactica, Scrubs, [...]

I came across a nifty little trick today (reference here) for hiding files and folders in Nautilus that you can’t move or rename, such as lost+found in a partition’s root directory. The trick is to create a text file called .hidden in the same directory as the file or folder you want to hide, and [...]

Huzzah! We finally got our real internet working today! I’ve been suffering by on an unencrypted wireless connection for the past couple days. Between low signal strength and unreliable uplink connectivity, its been a pretty aggravating experience. We’ve signed up with Bell for a plan that, according to my roommate, has unlimited bandwidth. Unfortunately I only [...]

When I built my computer in the summer of 2003 (yes, it really is that old), I bought a Logitech MX Duo. This combo came with Logitech’s wireless Elite keyboard and wireless MX700 optical mouse. The keyboard has since broken, and I replaced it with an old used Logitech wireless keyboard that Glenn had lying [...]