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PayPal Link Generator

PayPal used to let you create a payment link in addition to the current payment button.  The link was nice for a quick and dirty method when the button wasn’t needed, but PayPal seems to have done away with it. … Continue reading

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Quick DVD Backup to ISO on Linux

I often want an easy command line way to easily backup a standard definition (non-BlueRay) DVD to and ISO image.  The command line is nice because I can do it remotely on an idle MythTV Frontend machine and can copy the … Continue reading

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Remove Unsed Linux Kernels

I hate manually cleaning out all of the old kernels here is a script to do it for you: dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge … Continue reading

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DSM Links

Road Racing Upgrade Path: http://www.dsmtuners.com/1g_dsm_road_racing_setup

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Spam-me-not E-mail Link Obfuscator

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/email/encode/

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Ultra Marathon Race Web Sites

  http://www.marathonguide.com/races/races.cfm   http://www.ultrasignup.com

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Roomba Blink Error Codes

The little light to the left of the Clean light on the 500 series, which if it is there can look like either a little Roomba or an exclamation point is called the Check Robot light (according to the Customer … Continue reading

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Setting default Runlevel

  This was written for Fedora, not sure how many other other distros it applies to. There are three ways to change your runlevel:  * While the Computer is Running:  1. Open a Terminal.  2. Become root.  3. Type:  init … Continue reading

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Encrypted USB Drives for Linux and Windows

  I played with 2 options: TrueCrypt and FreeOTFE TrueCrypt has a Windows and Linux GUI making it pretty easy to use cross platform.  It also do some pretty cool encryption of the boot drive to secure the whole computer, but I haven’t messed with that yet. FreeOTFE has cool because it has a WIndows GUI and can automount under linux if you encrypt a whole partition as opposed to a volume (file) stored on a partition.  I really wanted to go with FreeOTFE for the automounting, but ran into a deal breaker issue.  Windows can only mount a single partition from a USB drive, so I couldn’t have a small  partition to run FreeOTFE from (so it was portable to any Windows computer) and have a 2nd large encrypted  partition for the data. Configuring FreeOTFE and Linux see http://emcken.dk/weblog/archives/164-encrypted-usb-drive-in-ubuntu.html. My notes just in case the above link ever goes away: sudo apt-get install cryptsetup sudo modprobe dm-crypt ## If you haven’t rebooted sudo cryptsetup –verbose –verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb5 sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb5 sdb5 # Based on fat32 or ntfs sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/mapper/sdb5 -n “tpearsall” sudo mkntfs -f /dev/mapper/sdb5 sudo cryptsetup luksClose sdb5

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ROM Burning Service

http://www.tiptonware.com

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