Went to Hive 76 for their open house night on Wednesday to check out the space. While I was there Jack Zylkin demoed his very cool Arduino based vintage typewriter > USB Keyboard hack, and it’s actually quite ingenious and cool. There are contact relays underneath the main typewriter carriage and he uses magnets for other registers and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Computer’
June 9, 2010
Mass .flac to Apple Lossless (ALAC .m4a) conversion
I have a couple posts going on the back burner, namely the re-foaming process on the 8″ woofer drivers from the Advent Heritage speakers I found in Greenpoint and the Mac Mini media server setup we have going now. But first, say you want to convert all the albums you ripped to FLAC to Apple [...]
June 2, 2010
OS X and the “cat” command for appending sequential .zip files
For whatever reason there is certain a level of incompatibility between various .zip (archive) file formats among various operating systems today. It’s certainly not that you won’t be able to access any file type on any given system, as there are many tools to do so, mostly it’s a question of how many hoops you [...]
April 5, 2010
Buffalo & DD-WRT still kicking ass
My Buffalo WHR-G54S is up and running at another friends’ home in NY. That’s two fresh routers (well one Tomato firmware update) and one used replacement for the utter rubbish Netgear WGR614 v3. The Netgear had an Atheros chipset from 2002 and the firmware prior to flashing an update was 2003. I [...]
April 1, 2010
TFTP after a bad flash on WRT-54G Ver 2.0
Was helping a friend trouble shoot an old Linksys WRT-54G Version 2.0 and I thought it might be worth installing the Tomato firmware and see if it helps minimize the connection drop outs he’s been having. I thought upgrading via the Linksys admin menu would be a snap. I made a couple of mistakes.
1) Always [...]
November 15, 2009
OMG GRUB2 so doesn’t work with GRUB 1.5
I mentioned to both Aris and CC about not being able to get GRUB going, but as it turns out, OpenSUSE had overwritten my 1st 9.04 Xubuntu configuration’s GRUB with it’s own (I believe 1.5) but I’d installed OpenSUSE on a secondary 1.0 TB drive…. when I reformatted that 1.0 TB drive from within a [...]
September 24, 2009
Unetbootin, Vista 32bit hell and other stories
Zoe had a friend who was having some computer problems and I suppose to some extent I brought this upon myself. Thankfully, I now have a strategy. Of course this is probably like 10 hours where I am far too deep in to start strategizing, but I now have a strategy.
Lets pretend for a moment [...]
September 14, 2009
iPod Touch has 802.11n! But it’s not enabled! Zing!
I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave before doing a little bouldering in Central Park. Chris sent the Polish Traverse and made it look effortless. At least someone is in shape. So, I stopped by Apple and asked what they knew about the 802.11n chipset on the latest model iPod Touch. Nothing. They [...]
