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Brian Bilbrey

Update: Dortmunder

Anthony commented on one of the early pictures of Dortmunder, asking "How does your new computer behave?" Unremarkably is perhaps the best answer - in that there's nothing to remark on, it just keeps ticking on. It's currently acting as my home IMAPS server (dovecot), as well as an IRC (irssi) launching spot that stays connected in a screen session. Agog:~ bilbrey$ ssh dortmunderLast login: Thu Aug 9 17:40:36 2012 from 192.168.1.100[bilbrey@dortmunder ~]$ w 17:41:11 up 25 days, 20:38, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.05USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHATbilbrey pts/3 17:41 0.00s 0.15s 0.04s w...[root@dortmunder pacman.d]# pacman…

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Brian Bilbrey

August Already?

Time flies. I'm "in between" classes, so I'm just reading ahead for the first class of the Fall session, which starts on August 20. This weekend, I got some work done replacing broken shelving in Marcia's fabric room, cleaned up and fixed up a couple of things in the woodshop, harvested a metric big volume of veggies (mostly tomatoes), made more salsa, made some chili, and... oh, yeah, worked at the office for a few hours yesterday. I've got gear that's making me very, very angry (as nearly everyone's favorite Martian has been known to exclaim). * * * Our…

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Brian Bilbrey

Fuzzy? Mac Air MiniDP/HDMI vs. Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD

What a lovely lead, eh? But I had a heck of a time finding my answer, and while I never did find precisely what I wanted via search engines, I did get enough of a hint that I finally figured it out. I have Agog, this Mac Air. It's got Thunderbolt/Mini Display Port output and I've got a MiniDP-to-HDMI adapter. I also have this 27" HDMI + DVI Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD display. Here's the problem: When I connected the Air to the Syncmaster at full resolution, the screen image was displayed with about "half an inch" missing at the top…

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Brian Bilbrey

Getting Things Done

But not GTD in the larger sense. But getting things done, lower case: I shaved the lawns yesterday, front and back. I did a bit of weeding in the garden, also. And today, I find that for the second summer session class, I ended up 1 point shy of an ace, out of 500. Yes, absolutely where I should have been for a class on UNIX and shell scripting. But now just two classes to go! Huzzah! * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Brandon R. Pepper, 31, of York,…

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