http://www.anatifero.us/weblog Whee. Copyright 2011 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:14:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 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/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/05/24/tethering-on-base-in-belgium/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/05/24/tethering-on-base-in-belgium/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 18:31:06 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/05/24/tethering-on-base-in-belgium/ So when I got to Belgium and signed up with BASE for internet, I was happy to see that it was fairly easy to get working on my iPhone. However, I was saddened to see that I couldn't get any of the pre-existing .mobileconfig profiles working for tethering, especially considering ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/05/24/tethering-on-base-in-belgium/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/02/05/get-an-aim-pro-account/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/02/05/get-an-aim-pro-account/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:02:25 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/02/05/get-an-aim-pro-account/ AIM Pro lets you get user@domain.com AIM addresses. Since I hate installing the webex client just to register one, the link is here: AIM Pro get screenname http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/02/05/get-an-aim-pro-account/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/31/growl-gntp-plugin-for-windows-media-player/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/31/growl-gntp-plugin-for-windows-media-player/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:27:25 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/31/growl-gntp-plugin-for-windows-media-player/ I've put together a little plugin for Growl GNTP for Windows Media Player. The installer is here: http://aitne.com/downloads/WMP-GNTP-Installer-1.0.3.msi. To set it up, simply download the .msi and run it. If you're on a particularly old version of windows, you might need to install the Windows Installer redistributable. If you've tried some of ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/31/growl-gntp-plugin-for-windows-media-player/feed/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/19/getting-ios-ezvpn-to-work-with-tamu-vpn/ http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/19/getting-ios-ezvpn-to-work-with-tamu-vpn/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:46:00 +0000 General http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/19/getting-ios-ezvpn-to-work-with-tamu-vpn/ I decided that it would be nice if my local network was automagically VPN'd to campus, so I worked out a configuration for the TAMU VPN server using IOS ezvpn (This is on a Cisco 1721 with hardware acceleration module, which has the ADSL WIC). The relevant bits looks something ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/19/getting-ios-ezvpn-to-work-with-tamu-vpn/feed/