http://www.anatifero.us/weblog Whee. Copyright 2012 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/04/13/kill-alertmobilelivecom-sms-messages/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/04/13/kill-alertmobilelivecom-sms-messages/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:45:15 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/04/13/kill-alertmobilelivecom-sms-messages/ I started getting texts from alert@mobile.live.com from Microsoft, which were apparently set up by the previous owner of the number I recently activated. Texting STOP to get them to stop (as required by federal law) doesn't work. You have to text STOP to 695483, and then it stops. I figured I'd ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/04/13/kill-alertmobilelivecom-sms-messages/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/03/02/houston-airport-bus-fail/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/03/02/houston-airport-bus-fail/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:22:12 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/03/02/houston-airport-bus-fail/ The Metro 102 bus from the Houston IAH airport to downtown only stops in one place, the rental car bus pickup side of Terminal C. This is contrary to the signage. http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/03/02/houston-airport-bus-fail/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/29/getting-kindle-to-work-with-adb-on-debian-wheezy/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/29/getting-kindle-to-work-with-adb-on-debian-wheezy/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:07:35 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/29/getting-kindle-to-work-with-adb-on-debian-wheezy/ For some reason, I kept getting the annoying permission denied error when trying to test an android application on the fire with ADB. I ended up having to use this configuration to get it to work: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1949", ATTR{idProduct}=="0006", MODE="0600", OWNER="bill" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1949", ATTR{idProduct}=="0005", MODE="0600", OWNER="bill" http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/29/getting-kindle-to-work-with-adb-on-debian-wheezy/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/19/janome-3125-manual/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/19/janome-3125-manual/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:30:34 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/19/janome-3125-manual/ A while back, I bought a Janome 3125 sewing machine at a Black Friday sale. Years later, I've found that the online manual for it is nowhere to be found. Fortunately, this same machine was sold by Janome as the Hello Kitty sewing machine. It took me a little investigating to ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2012/02/19/janome-3125-manual/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/10/09/notes-from-homemade-sous-vide/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/10/09/notes-from-homemade-sous-vide/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:45:50 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/10/09/notes-from-homemade-sous-vide/ I decided that I wanted to try sous vide this weekend, and didn't want to wait to order a PID controller in the mail. My thought was that I could use a microcontroller with a big relay wired up to the LCD traces for a kitchen thermometer and do the ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/10/09/notes-from-homemade-sous-vide/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/08/10/aggies-dont-lie-cheat-or-steal-except-when-they-do/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/08/10/aggies-dont-lie-cheat-or-steal-except-when-they-do/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:57:46 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/08/10/aggies-dont-lie-cheat-or-steal-except-when-they-do/ I received this letter in the mail from the Association of Former Students (AFS) last month. It's written by someone that says she's given to the Century Club, and often sits at Fish Pond and thinks about the legacy of the university. Of course, I'm not sure when she would have ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/08/10/aggies-dont-lie-cheat-or-steal-except-when-they-do/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/22/simple-prowl-notifier-for-texas-am/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/22/simple-prowl-notifier-for-texas-am/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:30:06 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/22/simple-prowl-notifier-for-texas-am/ As of the last few years, it's becoming more and more commonplace that news of a semi-urgent nature gets pushed out online quickly. In the case of Code Maroon, you can get a notification if Texas A&M University is going to be closed or if a building is on fire. ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/22/simple-prowl-notifier-for-texas-am/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/11/using-ekiga-with-a-polycom-cx200-on-linux/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/11/using-ekiga-with-a-polycom-cx200-on-linux/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:07:16 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/11/using-ekiga-with-a-polycom-cx200-on-linux/ I happened to have a half broken Polycom CX200 lying around, and I discovered that it mostly works aside from the LED on the front. The other thing I noticed was that if I plug it in on linux, the hiddev driver captures it and pulseaudio hooks up the microphone ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2011/02/11/using-ekiga-with-a-polycom-cx200-on-linux/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/11/26/script-kiddie-postmortem/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/11/26/script-kiddie-postmortem/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:29:50 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/11/26/script-kiddie-postmortem/ A few weeks ago, some script kiddie from Romania hopped on my AppleTV that I'd converted to run Linux. My first hint that something was wrong was that the "-h" argument to ls stopped working properly. I'd been using this box as a fileserver with a USB drive attached to ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/11/26/script-kiddie-postmortem/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/09/13/paying-aetna-online/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/09/13/paying-aetna-online/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:36:36 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/09/13/paying-aetna-online/ Aetna makes this an absolute pain. You can get to it by going to the page here: http://www.aetna.com/members/individuals/health/member_resources/billing.html moved: http://www.aetna.com/individuals-families-health-insurance/individual-insurance/individual-pay-premium.html. You have to register, and the "Group Number" is really your "Account Number". Then you can use Visa, Mastercard or American Express. I guess they don't like Discover. They take ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/09/13/paying-aetna-online/feed/