Category Archives: geek

Whole House Energy Monitoring

Posted on February 27, 2011 by mikegrb

I placed an order for a TED 5000 on February 10th. The TED 5000 is a whole house energy monitor — a kill-a-watt for the whole house. I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the products available in this … Continue reading →

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multi-multi-multi function office machines

Posted on August 28, 2008 by mikegrb

Currently in a waiting room and CNN is on. There was just a commercial for a Sharp deep freezer sized copier/scanner/printer/sink. The business person googled for a restaurant to take a client to on the built in touch screen then … Continue reading →

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Weather in Screen Statusbar

Posted on June 5, 2008 by mikegrb

Caspar Clemens Mierau recently wrote about a nifty Debian package named weather-util and his method for embedding the current temperature into the screen status bar. Quite nifty. I did the same with one small exception, including the predicted probability of … Continue reading →

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Most Awesome Command Ever – timeout

Posted on May 27, 2008 by mikegrb

I have a Debian Sid box that I’d been putting off updating for a while so finally got around to doing it tonight. I took the opportunity to do a bit of spring cleaning and purge old packages I installed … Continue reading →

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Dear Lazzy Web, fingerprint scanning?

Posted on April 1, 2008 by mikegrb

Anybody know of some open source fingerprint scanning software for OS X? Bonus points if it has magic integration with stuffs like the keychain, auto log-in, screen saver disable, etc. Failing available open source software, what about commercial software? I’m … Continue reading →

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Don’t Click Here

Posted on March 20, 2008 by mikegrb

Click this link! [18:54:56] < bhale> mikegrb: they should arrest the googlebot

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Adding a Datastore to an RRD File

Posted on December 30, 2007 by mikegrb

Mainly for personal future reference. Adding a DS to a bunch of RRD files is a big pain, RRD doesn’t have any sort of native mechanism for doing this. The usual procedure is exporting the RRD data to XML, creating … Continue reading →

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TextMate Rocks

Posted on November 21, 2007 by mikegrb

TextMate is the best text editor ever. That is all.

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nerd god I am

Posted on October 26, 2007 by mikegrb
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Dynex Support Sucks

Posted on January 11, 2007 by mikegrb

Dynex is the Best Buy brand. We were recently there and I noticed a $20 webcam that said it supported OS X 10.1 and greater on the box so I decided to purchase it. I installed the included drivers and … Continue reading →

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