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I just got a Sony DSC-P51 digital camera. There was a good writeup in the Times a few weeks ago on small cameras. This Sony isn’t that small … Continue reading »

We might have to get manuals someplace, since the car didn’t come with any. Aftermarket owners manuals can be found at Helminc.com.

Over the past few months, I’ve actually read honest-to-god novels. This flourishing of fiction is a departure from what I’ve tended to read over the past few years: a … Continue reading »

Here’s a kit to make bootable DOS CDs. There are options to make a CD with multiple boot images, and so on. I feel much better now about … Continue reading »

I finally had to clean up LDAP authentication for Apache on the mail server. I had let it continue to use /etc/shadow for authentication for the past year, mainly … Continue reading »

The ceilings have finally been redone. It took a couple of days longer than expected, but the doorman and his brother did a great job — the new ceilings … Continue reading »

Documentation for open source projects can sometimes be very finicky. Witness the missing HOWTO for integrating MHonArc, a mail-to-HTML converter, with Mailman, a mailing list manager, in the answer … Continue reading »

The Once and Future Beans Recipe courtesy Alton Brown 1 pound dried Great Northern beans 1 pound bacon, chopped 1 onion, chopped 2 jalapenos, chopped 1/4 cup tomato paste 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1/4 cup … Continue reading »

Here’s a Slate article discussing Rawl’s difference principle, i.e.: economic inequalities are justified only if they benefit the worst-off members of society. The primary problem with this principle, and how it’s … Continue reading »

The fourth time through at making yogurt has gone without a hitch. The only failure has been the very first time, when I burned the milk, because I was … Continue reading »