I just saw that the audio recording of Douglas Adams, attached the transcript of his speech on biota.org is pointing to archive.org. So I’m just going to host a copy of this marvelous talk, along with its transcript. Original credits, of course, go to biota.org. Click here for the...
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Gardening Hack: Lawnmower modded so that it goes uphill, for less than 5$
Field-tested for over three years now, this hack will set you back about 5$ and make your lawn mower go straight up hill 45°. Sorry for the portrait format, but it is apparently awesome enough that it was even featured in Honey Bee (I’m active in the Honey Bee...
Continue reading...Finally solved: BibDesk failing at generating Preview.
Now what I don’t like with automated solutions is that occasionally they don’t work – and that’s of course when you’ve no time to debug and fix it. My automated solution of bibliography generating using BibDesk is massively effective, except that it occasionally fails.
Continue reading...Awesome DIY Helping Hands
Now occasionally, I stumble across real cool hacks. This one came out top today: How to make a helping hands soldering station out of material you already very likely have, at about no costs – and that beats every el cheapo Chinese rubbish big time. Only mod I’d do...
Continue reading...Innovations in Storage Technology…
In the picture below, you see the first hard disk drive. Developed by IBM in 1952, it carried a whopping 5 MB of data on fifty twenty-four inch disks. It was leased to customers at about 3,200 USD (equivalent to 27,500 USD in 2013) a month. It weighted over...
Continue reading...Forward external request IP behind reverse proxy behind OpenWRT
Summary With the help of tommie from the #linuxger channel, I’ve finally been able to configure my port forwarding to my web server in a way that I see the actual source request IPs in the web server’s access log. So here’s the overall picture: A request from an...
Continue reading...How to paste a URL from the Clipboard to BibDesk as a LaTeX (and Harvard) compatible reference
Now after I’ve ended up about 700 times to always do the same thing: In BibDesk, add a “Note” field to a publication, copy my template for that note field, paste it into the publication, then copy and paste the URL I want to refer to into the right...
Continue reading...How to run a SuperDrive on a USB Hub
Jeff Grundy has made an awesome suggestion on how to make an Apple SuperDrive work on a USB Hub. As a background, Apple supports running these drives only when connected directly to the computer. They also work when connected to a ThunderBolt display, but you’ll get a warning saying the...
Continue reading...How to free up some Host Disk Space with Virtual Box
Here’s some hints on how to reduce the size of your virtualbox disk image (VDI) files, for linux guests (and host). First, you’d of course shut down your virtual box guest and then make a backup copy of that vdi file just in case. Next, boot into your guest...
Continue reading...Rip DVDs on Mavericks…
So I was very much not amused when loading a DVD into my “Superdrive” – and it opening the DVD Player application, requesting me to enter a region code – and ejecting the DVD when aborting the process. Moving the DVD app out of the way (or changing the...
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