[ddreier]

The Kobo Mini eReader is on sale for $39.99, and after a little research it appears to be slightly hack-able. I'm thinking that I'd be dumb not to get one. Thinking about setting it up as a weather display for a start.

[ilovecharts]

How Wood Is Cut - ‘Billon’, Vincent Kohler, 2007

via fbatsh / darnyill

[ddreier]

Very cool!

[ddreier]

Mail server configuration update

I just spend the last several hours working on the Postfix and Dovecot configuration on my mail server. When I did the initial mail setup I had to follow several different tutorials to get what I thought I wanted, and in the end it wasn't working how I had expected.

So with nothing better to do tonight I decided to rework the configuration on my (only, live, production) mail server. I decided to follow the "ISPmail" tutorials from workaround.org.

The tutorial was great and easy to follow, but I ran into several problems because I'm running in the 2.x branch of Dovecot that comes with Ubuntu Server 12+ and the instructions were written for Dovecot 1.x. But with the help of some Googling and reading the comments on the tutorial I was able to get the configuration working with Dovecot 2.x.

Tinkering with crazy complex systems like Postfix always leads to a fun time.

[ddreier]

Want.

[ddreier]

My truck has been without A/C for a while now. So since it is rapidly becoming Summer, I started working on a little solution. (It's my version of a "swamp-cooler")

[ddreier]

Mail servers are fun! (/sarcasm)

For some reason or another I decided that since I run my own web server, it should be hosting my email as well (I have been using Google Apps). So for the last ten days or so I have been fighting Postfix (SMTP) and Courier (IMAP) to get it running properly on my Linode, and I have finally succeeded! My next steps are to get real SSL certs, enable DKIM, and PGP/GPG message signing (not necessarily in that order). More fun lies ahead.

[ddreier]

Arch Linux pacman issues

So I decided to switch my linode (which hosts my website) over to arch linux. But while attempting to get the system up-to-date I kept running into this error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

glibc: /usr/bin/tzselect exists in filesystem

glibc: /usr/sbin/zdump exists in filesystem

glibc: /usr/sbin/zic exists in filesystem

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Turns out that the solution for me was to update tzdata first (pacman -S tzdata), then I was able to update the system (pacman -Syu).

</geek>

[onethingwell]

[ddreier]

This is pretty sweet!

vtclock, a text-mode full-screen digital clock.

[ddreier]

Open-source rocks!

So, I contributed to my first open-source project this week. I did something small, but it was still really cool to try and help improve someone else's program. Plus, Tiny Issue is great and I'll do what I can to make it even better!

[ddreier]

Shot a short timelapse of the UT Tower and world's largest Texas flag.

[ddreier]

I heard about Fizl through one of my favorite blogs, onethingwell.org. So in my time of procrastination over the past week I rewrote my site using Fizl as the CMS.

[ddreier]

Doctor, Doctor Who?

So, on some kind of whim my dad started watching the Doctor Who TV series on Netflix. He liked it, and so I started watching as well. 

The series started in 1963, and with it's reincarnation in 2005 it has become so engrained in geek culture that I already knew a bit about the Doctor without even ever watching so much as a clip from an episode.

But ever since watching the first episode on Netflix I have been hooked! I've managed to watch 31 episodes in three days thanks to spring break, and I might even have watched them all by week's end.

If you have a Netflix subscription check it out! You'll probably like it if you're reading this.

[ddreier]

Logic Problem

In some homework for my logic class I came across this little problem. I'm sharing it here because it's actually useful, this isn't word for word but close enough.

You have three buckets, one 8-gal full of water, one empty 5-gal, and one empty 3-gal. Prove or disprove that you can use these buckets to measure out 4 gallons of water.

Here's my solution: Each column is a bucket, 8-gal, 5-gal, 3-gal. Each line is a step towards 4-gal and each number is an amount of gallons.

8 0 0

5 0 3

5 3 0

3 5 0

3 2 3

6 2 0

0 5 2

2 5 0

2 2 3

4 0 0

Done!

[ddreier]

Took this shot on the 2/9/12 UT Photowalk, and I absolutely LOVE this view. I can't wait until construction is done so I can re-take it.

[ddreier]

This looks like a sweet bag! It's now on the top of my photo wishlist.