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…blogs.com. Stage two is to replace all the internal links to radio.weblogs.com, stage three is to write an upstream driver that replaces each file on radio.weblogs.com with a redirect page pointing to the corresponding resource on web.sabi.net, and stage four is turning off upstreaming to UserLand. At least this way I can be sure that my Weblog updates without fuss. Of the last 18 upstreaming attempts in my events log, 12 of them failed. That&apos…

…;` Since I guess there's no folder open if you open Mutt to compose a message, it may be that even a completely generic folder hook never is evaluated. Thanks for the great suggestions (in the comments section and by email) on a replacmeent bag. I figured out how to hook up the shoulder strap somewhere else for a temporary solution, but I'll be buying one next week and will let you know how it goes. Certain viewers may find it interestin…

Replacing the hard drive in an aluminum iMac

…t. Quite a bit of dust ended up on the LCD while I was working. After reattaching the aluminum front bezel, I stood the iMac up, tilted it past vertical and squirted compressed air on the LCD to shake off the dust. The interior glass accumulated much less dust than the LCD over the same period and required hardly any cleaning. When replacing the glass, the clear iSight area is useful for determining which end is up. Good luck!…

…I'm still alive, just very busy. Enjoying my TiBook and the iPod that John Marriott loaned me (the latter is every bit as elegant as claimed—I was really blown away). Had a good, if long, meeting with my advisor on Monday. Spent some time today trying to get OpenSSH compiled with Kerberos 5 support, using this patch. No luck, posted to krbdev and hopeful someone else will know what's going on here….

SMART monitoring on USB/FireWire enclosures

...Wire enclosure/SATA bridge you’re using needs to support sending SMART commands to the drive as well. As is customary with “fringe” features of commodity hardware, reliable information about specific hardware support is hard to come by. The best I found was this list of USB devices supported by the smartmontools package (which also includes some notes on FireWire), but it doesn’t include most of the devices I have. I originally used a Linux live C...

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