Adventures in stupid technology
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Making thin burger patties
My ideal hamburger is like those you find at In-N-Out. It has a relatively thin seasoned patty cooked medium well, onion, lettuce, tomato, thousand island dressing and ketchup all on a soft white bun. I never understood the appeal of those thick rare in the center burger patties advertised in restaurant burgers. To me a…
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Extend your desktop to a notebook
Want to add your notebook to an existing display environment? Then Synergy is for you. It’s a cross platform open source application that lets you control a systems mouse and keyboard through the network. Its server/client architecture let you extend the reach of your mouse and keyboard to other computers. Here’s how I configured Synergy…
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Snow Leopard a few months later
It’s been about five months since I got my MacBook Pro and I’ve gotten much more comfortable with both the new hardware and operating system. Like most reviews this post will boil down to a list of features I like and ones I don’t. It’ll be a cliché in the sense that this is yet…
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VIM quick reference
This custom VIM reference chart is organized for me – but you can borrow it. There are lots of quick VIM reference charts, but this one is mine. It has the stuff I’m always looking for and none of the crap I don’t need. VIM quick reference cheat sheet (from ViEmu.com) David’s frequently used &…
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My ShowAnalyzer settings
I’ve been fine tuning my ShowAnalyzer settings for a while now and think I’ve gotten them pretty close to ideal. ShowAnalyzer is the software I use to batch analyze DVR recordings and mark ad segments within so that SageTV can automatically skip them during playback. It has a built in tool for fine tuning called…
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SATA to USB adapter issues on the Mac
I had an extra Western Digital SATA notebook hard drive lying around and figured I could use it as a time capsule for my MacBook. So I hopped on eBay and bought a $5 USB enclosure for it. I had no sooner plugged the thing in than my problems began. First I had issues copying…
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Fun with CURL and DOM
When the California mega millions jackpot was more than 200 million dollars a in May, I bought a couple of tickets and crossed my fingers. I didn’t win…stupid quick picks, but I got to thinking: Maybe there could be a better way of choosing the numbers. Like choosing them based on previous winning numbers somehow.…
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Goulash and spätzle
One of my favorite treats is my moms goulash and spätzle. Her goulash is variation of the Hungarian meat stew that like so many delicious recipes used to be a way for poor people to utilize food scraps. Spätzle are essentially egg noodles made from scratch. This recipe is one of a few that can…
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Rip songs from a DVR recording
Last week Glee featured the song Dream On as a duet between Matthew Morrison and Neil Patrick Harris and my DVR recorded it in HD with 5.1 surround sound. My girlfriend liked the song, but iTunes wanted $1.29 for it. So I tried importing the MPEG 2 file my DVR generated for the show into…
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Resolve remote wonder II connection issues
The other day I got an email from someone who had trouble initially getting the ATI Remote Wonder II remote control to work with Windows. Reading it I remembered that I also had issues initially getting my remote to work. I had bought it used off of eBay and feared the worst after it wouldn’t…