Category Archives: How-to

2003 Bonneville, 4 Blizzards; The Heartache

Iowa has been hit pretty hard this winter. Since mid-December, we’ve gone through four blizzards; totaling just shy of a full meter of snow… a week of -15F and lower temperatures, BEFORE windchill is factored. Crazy stuff, I say. The latest blizzard, I was privileged enough to drive home in… bad choice. So earlier this [...]

Linux; CentOS 5.4, Setting up SUDO, Intel PRO/Wireless drivers, DAG, YUM

Months back I made the lateral move from Windows XP to CentOS 5.4 on my laptop. I say lateral, because I’m not terribly used to the Linux GUI look/feel… anyways, I barely finished the setup process and parked it in my desk at work. For three months it’s seen minimal lighting… I broke it out [...]

$_SERVER, pretty formatting

I laughed my ass off when I was reading through the user comments/notes of the $_SERVER manual today. It’s content from back in October, but who needs to visit the $_SERVER manual on a weekly or even monthly basis? Several people in the past have come up with [>]clever loops to display the contents of [...]

Play PLS on Android

When I was a WinMo user, I had a lot of trouble finding a reliable PLS player, so I never had the chance to fully enjoy Afterhours.fm on the go. Not a problem anymore! For those of you who have Android phones and want to listen to Afterhours.fm (or any radio station for that matter), [...]