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iPhone OS 4.0

dacaprice — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:42:47 +0000

Since it was made available last night, I updated my iPhone to the newest OS 4.0. It seems to work really well so far, but Apple didn't update any of the documentation links in Safari, so I had to read about how to use the new features elsewhere. Here is a good guide from Gizmodo that goes through the ins and outs of the newest update.

UPDATE: The Ars Technica review is actually more thorough.

Change uppercase filenames to lowercase

dacaprice — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:00:48 +0000

I needed to rename a handful of image files from my iPhone from all uppercase letters to lowercase. I did this in a bash shell in Fedora linux. Here's how I did it:

[dacaprice@fedora10]$ for i in `ls *JPG`
do
mv $i `echo $i |  tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
done

Hacking Aerogarden seed pods

dacaprice — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:15:10 +0000

A few years ago I received an Aerogarden by Aerogrow as a Christmas gift. I love to cook so growing my own fresh herbs seemed like a great idea. My only real complaint was the cost of the replacement seed pods. So naturally I began to look for a way to make my own seed pods. I was inspired by a blog post I saw on Jung's Weblog. Jung is really into aeroponics and growing and cooking with her own veggies. Here is what I did:

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I had to order a new pump which arrived today. I'll update in a few weeks if I get some growth.

iPhone Update 3.1.3 Problem

dacaprice — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:17:00 +0000

I've recently updated to the latest iPhone 3.13 software that claimed to have fixed some battery issues brought on by the previous 3.1.2 version. While I didn't think I was having any battery problems, I gave it a shot. BIG MISTAKE. I would advise anyone who is NOT having any problems with the 3.1.2 version software to stay right where there are. Even with little or no use in a day, I find my battery drained more than half way. With the previous software I could sometime go a day without recharging. I hope Apple fixes this soon. It seems I am not the only one with the complaint either.

iPhone Users Report 3.1.3 Update Problems

Attention HSBC customers

dacaprice — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:05:10 +0000

Recently someone uploaded malicious code to my site in an attempt to steal your HSBC customer account info. I was notified of the breach, removed the software right away and patched the vulnerabilities in my sites code. Please forward any suspicious emails you received to your banks fraud department.

Most recent migraines.

dacaprice — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:24:13 +0000

Somehow or another, I managed to get migraines 2 out of the last 3 weeks after hockey. I've been stretching regularly, seeing the chiropractor and massage therapist at least once a month. It is frustrating considering the months past I've had no migraines. I haven't changed my diet or exercise habits recently, however, work has been significantly more stressful; working over-nights, increased workload and responsibilities etc.

The first migraine I just dealt with; no meds, no ice, no massage, I just waited it out. The second mirgraine, I tried the same approach as the first, except I massaged and stretched my neck myself. I massaged my neck by folding my hands behind my neck (like I was praying) and used my thumbs to massage both sides of my neck. This significantly helped with the pain. At some point it felt as if the pain went away. Unfortunately I could only massage my own neck for so long. Regardless, the amount of time I was able to spend massaging significantly reduced the overall pain I was feeling.

It seems I keep my stress in my neck and stretching might not cut it for preventing these migraines. Moving forward, I'm going to try and add the self-neck massage into my normal routine to see how that helps.

Damien Walters highlight reel

dacaprice — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:47:06 +0000

Incredible display of elite fitness!

The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City – NYTimes.com

dacaprice — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:12:33 +0000

The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. Mr. Durant believes the human body evolved for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and his goal is to wean himself off what he sees as many millenniums of bad habits.

via The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City - NYTimes.com.

View text iPhone messages once you start typing.

dacaprice — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:29:09 +0000

I'm a big fan of the SMS & MMS user interface on the iPhone. However I've always found it annoying that once you start typing, you can not minimize the keyboard. In other words if you want to view all of your messages from one contact in full screen mode, after you've started typing a new message, you have to go back to the previous screen, then back into the conversation you started in the first place. I found that you can avoid this by clicking edit (upper right-hand corner). You can view all of the messages in edit mode, then hit cancel when you're finished. You don't lose any of the new message you started typing. Just be careful you don't accidentally delete anything!

How to run fsck on a Logical Volume in Linux.

dacaprice — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:23:56 +0000

I recently had a problem on my laptop running Fedora 11 where my X session just totally froze when trying to bring the laptop back from a hibernate state. Outside of the occasional issues coming out of hibernate (usually X not restoring) I'd say Fedora 11 has been pretty solid. This particular time, my X session restored but everything locked up. I tried switching to another virtual terminal to log in and kill GDM but some sort of inode error just streamed down the console. My only option was a hard reboot and after that I couldn't boot Fedora with any kernel. To fix my problem I booted off the Fedora install CD into rescue mode without mounting / . I then performed the following:

# lvm pvscan
# lvm vgscan
# lvm lvchange -ay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol_home
# lvm lvscan
# fsck -yfv /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol_home