June 2007

• 10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don’t Already Know. Really, we swear.
  More quick tips on the Linux shell. Sometimes it’s just easy to forget some of these, and nice to be reminded of them.
  (tags: linux shell cli)

Well. I’m a happy bunny. After having a thoroughly busy day at work, I was cheered up in the last five minutes when I received a request for re-use of one of my Flickr Photographs. Namely, the “Foot of the Great Pyramid.”

The request was from The World and I Online, “… an interdisciplinary resource that encompasses a broad range of articles by scholars and experts in their fields. [...] Over 500,000 students and teachers across America and abroad enjoy the top-quality materials that WorldandISchool.com provides.”

I have agreed, with terms very similar to the original Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License v2.0. I just thought I’d share that with you all :)

technorati tags:flickr, photography, license, reuse, permission, egypt, pyramid

I finally set aside some time to resolve my EMS USB II interface issues under Feisty Fawn. It was a lot easier than I anticipated. Thankfully, a patch has already been produced, so it was simply a case of compiling a replacement module.

Contrary to my initial belief, the issue does not lie in joydev, but in the usbhid module instead. I’ll summarise the steps I took to remedy this here, just in case anyone finds it of use (comment if you do.)
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• Wii MODCHIPs + Nintendo Wii Chip MODs
  Information on modding the Wii.
  (tags: wii mod chip hack)

… 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A and the bonus ball is B2