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Re: Bond 50 Giveaway: Snag Massive Blu-ray Box Set Celebrating Half-Century of 007

Chris Dzombak — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:55:24 -0000

Sean Connery and Blofeld, no question.

Re: Fixing 'Corrupted MAC On Input' Error with Git/SSH/VirtualBox 4.1.6 - Chris Dzombak

Chris Dzombak — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:10:30 -0000

Basically, a lucky guess. I figured this was probably due to some network hardware, somewhere, and I could interact with the repo normally from another machine, so it seemed likely that VirtualBox's network hardware was the issue.

Re: Craigslist Scammers - Chris Dzombak

Chris Dzombak — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:08:59 -0000

I'm glad this helped!

Re: How Rdio Can Kill Spotify (and vice-versa) - Chris Dzombak

Chris Dzombak — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:13:47 -0000

One point I neglected to mention in this post was pointed out on Twitter by @andrewa2 (https://twitter.com/#!/andr... ):

@rdio's webapp means that links to playlists, users, etc. are easily sharable and discoverable, and visiting them brings you to a usable, well-designed page.

@spotify's playlist links are like iTunes links – they require you to open the desktop app to view the content or interact with it in any way.

Rdio's more open, Web-style linking interface is much preferable.

Re: How Rdio Can Kill Spotify (and vice-versa) - Chris Dzombak

Chris Dzombak — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:09:45 -0000

I'll check that out - thanks for the pointer! As I noted, that's not necessarily a must-have, but it's certainly nice!

Re: Datasheet for RadioShack Phototransistor

Chris Dzombak — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:40:13 -0000

No, this is the only info I have.

Re: Moving from Wordpress to Jekyll (and a new design) - Chris Dzombak

Chris Dzombak — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:13:57 -0000

The whole site is indeed managed with Jekyll.

I recall having a similar problem recently, though I forget the exact details. Assuming you're using bash, try executing these commands, then running Jekyll in the same shell:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

If that seems to work, add those to your .bashrc and/or .bash_profile.
Hope that helps - I'm by no means an expert on Jekyll or anything Ruby-related; I know just enough to be dangerous. And thanks - happy to hear you like my design!

Re: Datasheet for RadioShack Phototransistor

Chris Dzombak — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:24:27 -0000

I didn't even notice that when I posted this - I think I just read it as 20 mA.

Yes, I think the light current is probably supposed to be 20 mA. Having a dark current > light current (even though dark current is so small) doesn't make any sense.

Re: Perfect ViewVC On Dreamhost

Chris Dzombak — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:31:19 -0000

I don't know off the top of my head - I only know how to set these up; I'm not familiar with the internals of them at all.

I'd start by looking at Pygments, though - there must be a list of color-able file types somewhere, and you probably just need to add .c files to it and associated them with the proper highlighter (look for the .cpp file type to see how it works).

Re: Symbian-Guru’s 2009 Top 5 Free Java Applications

Chris Dzombak — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:16:36 -0000

I've thought about that, but I actually doubt it. As much as I'd like to blame it on AT&T instead of Nokia/Symbian, I can't see why AT&T would require that.

The carrier wants me to use as much data as possible without thinking about it, I'm sure. More data transferred == more $$.

Re: Symbian-Guru’s 2009 Top 5 Free Java Applications

Chris Dzombak — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:04:43 -0000

Unfortunately, on my phone (the E71x), the only options for network access are "Not allowed" and "Ask every time". I'm hoping there is some other, secret way to get around this - possibly the same sort of process as signing a .sisx file?

Thanks for the suggestion, though.
- Chris

Re: Symbian-Guru’s 2009 Top 5 Free Java Applications

Chris Dzombak — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:11:02 -0000

I'd love to use the Gcal app, but the phone asks me for permission about twenty times each time I want to view a day's worth of events. This, of course, makes the app just about unusable. (Not the app's fault! From what I can see, the app itself is great.)

I've looked around some and didn't find a solution to this; is there anything I can do to stop these permission requests? I have the same problem with the Gmail app, too, which I would otherwise love. If anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful.

Re: Preview Of Waze Social GPS Navigation For Symbian

Chris Dzombak — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:29:05 -0000

I have an E71x, and I can't wait until I can use this! This looks genius.

Come to think of it, are they looking for alpha testers? I'd very gladly help out! (I can be contacted through my Web site, or the site admin will have my email address from this comment.)

Re: Guide To Buying Your First Digital SLR

Chris Dzombak — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:42:17 -0000

I'm really glad it was helpful! There are a few things I still need to add, but overall I think it's pretty much done.

And you definitely should check them out. It really is a great store!

Re: Advantages of a Typewriter as Compared to a Computer (for Word Processing)

Chris Dzombak — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:03:55 -0000

I would recommend getting one, yeah. They are perhaps not the most practical choice, but they are undeniably cool and (usually) fun to use.

I don't really write very much. I try some poetry now and again, but for the most part I will be using the typewriter to write letters.

Re: The Ethics of Teaching Hacking

Chris Dzombak — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:45:15 -0000

I have used public WiFi access points before that block all SSH traffic. That's incredibly annoying, but I think it would take care of this pretty effectively.

Re: One More Inkblot…

Chris Dzombak — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:25:29 -0000

A lobster.

Which reminds me of the B-52s.

Re: Prototype 1.5 and the Documentation is Here

Chris Dzombak — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:02:00 -0000

Thanks! The new site looks great, as do the docs. I’m looking forward to looking through the ‘Learn" section; hopefully, that’ll encourage me to use Prototype on some of the stuff I’m working on. I’ve been meaning to look into it for some time, and this removes just about any excuse I could use to excuse myself from learning Prototype.

Good work.