Archive for 2006

NYT No-Knead Bread

Thursday, November 30th, 2006 | 08:31

This is the third attempt (Thanksgiving was #2) of the no-knead bread technique popularized by Mark Bittman earlier this month. Going mostly by weight: Flour (370g bread flour, 100g spelt flour) Water (350g) Salt … Continue reading »

Windows Command Line Reference

Monday, November 27th, 2006 | 17:00

To use with the Windows telnet server, when something locks up the screen, etc. Microsoft’s reference Also, SANS has a write-up of various wmic commands, in particular “wmic process list brief” for … Continue reading »

Thanksgiving Postmortem 2006

Monday, November 27th, 2006 | 09:10

Turkey, fresh, about 12lbs from Westside Market, brined and prepared along the lines of this Good Eats recipe, but using a turkey roasting bag. The brining was done in … Continue reading »

Mansfield Haunted Prison Experience

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | 11:03

The previous weekend, we went to Mansfield Prison as part of Grace’s local college alumnae seasonal get-together. While we missed the alum group because of a late start, we … Continue reading »

Google Spreadsheet of Buying vs. Renting

Friday, October 13th, 2006 | 07:44

The Big Picture has a pointer to this Google Spreadsheet of a buying versus renting cost comparison: . It’s neat, but you have to save a copy to your own Google … Continue reading »

WEP Cracking using Auditor’s Security Collection 2006-06

Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | 08:37

An associate of mine was challenged to crack WEP by one of his collegues recently. Somehow, this collegue was unaware that WEP is flawed and subject to very fast … Continue reading »

Dough Techniques

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 | 07:49

Here’s an interesting piece by someone reverse engineering Patsy’s pizza. I don’t intend to violate warranty/lease/fire codes by disabling the safety features of my oven in order to achieve … Continue reading »

Basil Ice Cubes

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 | 07:17

Catching up on listening to the podcast backlog, I came across this idea for making ice cubes from fresh basil: NPR : Celebrating Late Summer’s Basil Bonanza A little too late on … Continue reading »

Cyrus IMAP log and cache settings

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 | 04:36

This is to address the case where Cyrus IMAP runs out of log memory. Documentation on how to do deal with this is scattered around on a number of … Continue reading »

CUPS printing for a Samba-connected HP LJ 1100

Sunday, August 20th, 2006 | 05:39

On Fedora Core 5, I did a relatively minimal installation (By the way, whoever set up the ISO images for the most minimal installation options I could find (and still … Continue reading »