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Shoebox » 165 Bots With Stuff

Del — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:50:24 +0000

Shoebox » 165 Bots With Stuff.

Woot

Del — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:29:36 +0000

Yay, the site’s up again. Silly hosting bills…

Too funny

Del — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:03:28 +0000

Shoebox » 165 Bots With Stuff.

Do I need a blog? — part two

Del — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:42:38 +0000

I’ve been kinda thinking on my last post. The answer is still no, I don’t really need thirty megs worth of blog engine to operate this thing. I don’t need to replace it with a wiki engine either. WordPress handles static pages just fine, and with the RB Internal Links plugin, interlinking posts and pages is trivial, just like a wiki. I also don’t really want to migrate the old posts and pages to yet another format.

So, yeah, I think I’ll leave wordpress alone. Again. It’s not like I’d use this site any more if I did change anything ;)

Do I need a blog?

Del — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:24:11 +0000

Not surprisingly I’ve already grown tired of WordPress. Lots of snazzy stuff, especially with the plugins available, but it’s just not doing it for me. Part of the problem is evidenced by the fact that I’m writing a blog post about wondering if I really need a blog.

While I know I use it as a blog sometimes, most of the stuff here is page-like stuff. I keep notes-to-self, minor writeups about projects, stuff like that. At least half the entries here would be better stored as a static-ish page. Now that I’ll be using the LMR blog for tidbits about robot/electronic projects, I don’t really need 30MB worth of blog engine on my own homepage.

I think the “right” answer is some wiki (or wiki-like) thing instead, with a blog-style device in that for non-robot random stuff. That would put the static stuff as it should be, and still allow for quick thoughts, ooh-I-want-one posts, and other useless crap. A plain old link to “My Robot Blog at LMR” would cover that part.

Now I just need to decide if I want to use any of the existing wiki engines or if I should write my own. I’ll never be happy with either option, so it’s a pretty tough decision to make ;)

Another great idea that I didn’t have

Del — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:47:16 +0000

The Arduino Experimentation Kit (from oomlout) is a pretty damn slick thing. Usually I’m one of the shit talkers about Oomlout’s stuff (they think a lot of their laser cut plastic). This thing isn’t quite as pricey as I’d expect from them though, and the idea behind it is just cool.

What got me more than anything else was the printed breadboard overlays. A very simple way to show just where to plug things in. Especially for a seven year old, which I just happen to have one of.

Damn I wish I’d thought of that…

This is the title of the post!

Del — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:51:29 +0000

I’m writing a post! It’s not really about anything, it’s just a post for the sake of being a post.

learning about Drupal

Del — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:15:56 +0000

So, yeah, I find myself needing to learn about Drupal. Wow there’s a lot of stuff there. Seems to be quite a powerful framework though. It’ll be interesting to see everything come together.

drupal.org | Community plumbing.

Stupid Wordpress

Del — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:57:04 +0000

No idea what’s going on right now, but Wordpress is giving me fits. I’ve got a page named “8087″, there’s a link to it over on the right there, but it keeps loading a 404 error instead. WTF? I swear it worked earlier before I edited the page too. Friggin ridiculous.

Just hit me, it’s probably looking for an archive from the year 8087. That’s kind of annoying, but I guess it makes sense. What really blows is now I have to go edit two friggin archives and a post on another site to point to a different URL here. Dammit.

Update: It won’t let me name it a number at all. I changed it to have Projects as a parent, so the URL would be /projects/8087/. That still didn’t work, it would just show /projects/ instead. Finally ended up renaming it to 8087-s1, and now it loads properly. Highly annoying.

Dropbox with Fluxbox

Del — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:21:56 +0000

So I’m gonna try Dropbox to see about keeping some notes and such synced between my computers. It’s supposed to be groovy, and it has software to work on all three major operating systems (Win, Mac, Linux). Since the two machines I want to sync between are Linux, things are already looking up. Naturally Dropbox expects the user to be running Gnome and Nautilus though. Since I don’t use either right now it works a bit different. Yeah, this info is already out there on the intarwebs but, as usual, it took a bit from each of a few different places to make it happen. So here’s what I did to get Dropbox working on Linux Mint with Fluxbox and Thunar.

Step One: go home and grab the binary tarball from dropbox (if 64 bit, try plat=lnx.x86_64), then un-archive it.

user@computer:$ cd ~ && wget http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86

user@computer:$ tar -zxf dropbox-lnx.x86-x.y.z.tar.gz

Step Two: edit the fluxbox startup to fire up the dropbox daemon

user@computer:$ vi .fluxbox/startup

find the line “exec fluxbox”, and before it add

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

(Step Two point Five: If you want to delay the start of Dropbox, see the Fluxbox wiki page about editing the startup file)

Step Three: logout, then log back in. After a few seconds a dialog should pop up to configure everything.

Step Four: make a fake Nautilus (if you don’t have Nautilus installed and don’t want it either)

user@computer:$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/thunar /usr/bin/nautilus