The last Question is, in my estimation, one of the greatest short sci-fi stories ever written. I’ve been pestering people around me to read it for a while without much luck. So, I’m publishing it here so that those that follow my blog can, at least, get some exposure to it. It should only take about 10-15 minutes to read. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
I know a lot of people have have had problems commenting on reader because people haven’t setup commenting correctly. But don’t worry, its easy! First of all, if you can’t comment on someone’s shares, they have to fix it. So this guide is written to allow people to comment on your shared items.
From Google Reader, click on “sharing settings”
Google reader uses your contact list and groups from gmail to manage contacts in reader. In order to enable commenting you have to add someone to a group that has commenting enabled. Before we move people into the right group we have to enabled group commenting.
Enable Commenting By Group
You can manage groups through your gmail contact list, or from that same screen click on the people that you’re following and by each of their names will be a groups setting link. That same link is available from the shared page of each person. Add them to a group that has commenting enabled and you’re done!
Click Edit Groups
I always thought Kanye was a jerk and now everyone agrees!
My new hobby is putting everything in context of star trek.
For instance, debating the need for a nuclear attack in WW2 all I have to say is that the Japanese would never have surrendered any other way because they were the Klingons of World War 2.
Now you understand why we needed to use a nuke.
PS. For those wondering who everyone else was:
Federation -> USA
Vulcans -> Great Britain
Cardassians -> Germany
Klingons -> Japan
Betazoids -> France
Dominion -> Russia
I’ve been reading some of my journal entries from when I was in high school and found a gem. The entry is recreated here, word for word. Enjoy.
| FBI ninja relations | Nov. 24th, 2002 @ 12:01 am |
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| Lastnight I learned some lessons.
It started out innocently enough. i convinced james it would be funny to dress up as ninja’s then to go into safeway and king soopers to read magazines and look at greeting cards. It was funny, people just look and then laughed. I mean, 2 ninja’s comparing mothersday cards and reading about kung-fu monthy is pretty funny. So we were just going around to all the diffrent stores. We figured if we stayed too long the cops might get called. So we’d gone to like 5 diffrent kingsoopers and safeway locations wihtout any trouble. No one cares and they just laugh. So then we goto the one on Wads. We head into safeway and read some magazines, Standard op. No one shows up so we decide to leave after 2-3 minutes. As we’re walking out and right as we enter a parking lot a guy behind us says “hold it right there fellas” I figure safeway security. I aint stopping for safeway sercurity, so I goto my car, BAD move. The guy is taking down the license plate so I drive up to him and say hey buddy whats the problem? He responds with a “well first thing” PULLS A GUN “put your hands where I can see ‘em!” When he first pulled it I thought “wow, over zealous safeway security with a pellet gun” so I let out a short laugh while james puts his hands on the dash. The guy is still standing there so I put my hands ont he dash. He then says “hold up here for my partner” I look over to see a big dark blue suburban pull up infront of my car. Keep in mind that we are both still in ninja garb. So I say “who are you? Safeway security or the police or what?” “uhh..police” So we go through the process of getting us out of the car. I get frisked by the partner while james gets his hood revoked from the first guy. I ask the partner who he is and he doesnt say anything. He just pulles out a wallet and shows up one of those FBI cards, followed by turning it over to show his badge. I respond with an “oh…” and let the FBI guys handle it. They said they’d just call the police and let them handle it. so the police got there, called our parents and told us not to be such big idiots in the future. darn FBI. Current Mood:
 amusedCurrent Music: fight club sound track
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It sort of goes without saying…
9:53:10 AM Gary Hall: dude whats the best program to get a virus of my comp
9:53:43 AM Dan: I won’t help you until you admit that windows is inferior to OS X
9:54:10 AM Gary Hall: lol
9:54:13 AM Gary Hall: right
9:54:29 AM Gary Hall: i forgot you are a religious fanatic
9:54:43 AM Dan: just say “Windows is inferior”
9:55:09 AM Dan: Ive got the software right here, I’ll give it to you. That’s all you have to say
9:55:45 AM Dan: who’s the fanatic? You aren’t willing to say three simple words to solve your problem?
9:55:55 AM Gary Hall: or you could be a normal person and just give me the program
9:56:57 AM Dan: Its very easy, just say it and I’ll help you.
10:00:07 AM Gary Hall: yup windows is inferior to OS X
10:00:20 AM Gary Hall: now give me the program
10:00:22 AM Dan: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
10:00:24 AM Dan: there ya go
10:00:38 AM Dan: download it and then reboot in safemode and install it
Some teacher once told me I was worthless and would amount to nothing but look at me now, I have my own blog. I’ll prove him wrong. Sometimes people don’t appreciate my super extra greatness. Ordered by date you’ll find some of my “best ofs” enjoy!
Whoa, you made it this far! Im thoroughly impressed.
I previously wrote a post on scripting the install of Cydia apps but I since found a much better way to handle the problem. Its a lot cleaner but it still doesn’t backup cydia apps data. Instead it creates a list of stuff thats been installed and makes it really easy to reinstall it all.
To do this we’re going to need to fire up the terminal and create a file to store our list. This can all be handled with one command.
dpkg --get-selections > myapps.txt
Putting this code into terminal will create a text file called “myapps.txt” which contains all the selections you’ve made in Cydia. Use an ftp client to save this file to your computer and you’re done.
Most people at this point are now going to upgrade their phone, etc.
Now you’ve got a fresh iphone with a fresh install of Cydia. You’ll need terminal and probably SSH installed first before you proceed. Once done upload your “myapps.txt”. Using terminal navigate to the directory containing that file and issue the following commands. Note: the $ at the beginning of each line is just the prompt and not part of the commands.
$dpkg --set-selections < myapps.txt
$apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
$rm /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist
$killall SpringBoard
You’re all done! If you want to understand what each command does then read on.
I made this desktop background in 5 minutes to help me remember that today is april fools day. Silly, I know, but maybe useful for some of you out there 
I just realized that if I were going to do a prank the easiest thing to do would be to change that link to rickroll or something but I don’t think I have the energy in me for any such prank.
The AppleTV is sort of a piece of junk unless you hack it so if you intend to actually get any use out of your apple tv you better do it. Here is how you enable USB so that you can play media off of attached storage (novel concept eh!).
Note: This Tutorial assumes you’re using AppleTV TakeTwo or the latest update (2.3). If you’re not sure run Apple TV’s update before starting
This is a pretty easy process, you can find instructions here. You don’t actually have to install Boxee but follow the instructions except instead of creating a boxee USB you can just select “SSH”. Great, now to enable USB
There are lots of ways to enable USB, trust me this is the easiest. SSH onto your AppleTV, download NitoTV and install it. Heres the code:
Valencia:~ ronin$ ssh frontrow@appletv.local
Welcome to the AppleTV (via atv-usbcreator)
frontrow@appletv.local's password:
-bash-2.05b$ wget http://nitosoft.com/nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip
-bash-2.05b$ unzip nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip
-bash-2.05b$ cd "nitoTV Take Two"/
-bash-2.05b$ sudo ./installme
This will install NitoTV and then restart your AppleTV’s finder, in other words you will have new options on your ATV menu.
Because the apple tv is purposely neutered you’ll need to snag the USB drivers from the 10.4.9 combo update. Heres the code
-bash-2.05b$ cd ~/Documents/
-bash-2.05b$ wget http://supportdownload.apple.com/download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Mac_OS_X/downloads/061-3165.20070313.iU8y4/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg
Great, now the combo update has been downloaded to the Documents folder. Go to your Apple TV menu and go NitoTV -> Settings -> Install Software -> Smart Installer
This will take a minute but when its done you can plugin USB drives and your Apple TV will recognize it. Volia!
If your Apple TV doens’t recognize your drive try restarting your appletv either by typing “sudo reboot” or unplugging and plugging in your ATV.
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