http://www.danieljdoughty.com As a Senior Unix guy I'm obligated to be grumpy, dress funny and tell you how it is. Welcome! Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:41:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry it's been so long since I posted. Things have been busy this summer with family reunions, family visiting, on-call of course, and all the normal fun of life. So here's at least a little fun to share. I'm sure you occasionally want to chop up a PDF file ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/08/27/pdft-command-line-magic-for-pdfs/ Well, I'm a geek.  So it was inevitable that I would eventually cover Dr. Who in some way shape or form.  I've been thoroughly enjoying the new revival of Dr. Who for the last four years.  Now the executive producer, Russell T. Davies, is going to move on and the ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/14/dr-who-on-hiatus-until-2010/ This web page is a mirror of the web page that used to live at http://www.freshscoop.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5%C2%A0%C2%A0. It is currently cached by google here. But in case freshscoop.com doesn't come back up I'm going to mirror this for a while as a fair amount of my readers link through me to that ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/13/mirror-of-freshscoopcom-posting-on-gpt-partitions/ It might help some of your less techy friends and family understand how Net Neutrality works.  I do have to apologize that the video won't play on this website and will instead take you to foureyedmonsters.com, but it appears to be a fairly benign site. Save the Internet | Rock the ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/11/interesting-net-neutrality-video/ Apparently Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire won an award called the NHS Live Award  for coming up with a system to help Bipolar patients manage their own conditions.  The system sends messages to the patients asking them how they're feeling and the patients respond with pre-arranged answers.  It's a pretty cool use ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/10/bipolarity-managed-via-text-messaging/ I was trying to reinstall a Tripwire agent on a Solaris 9 box when I ran into a problem during the package add. You see the agent in question needed to be upgraded, so I had removed it via the bin/uninstall.sh script which worked quite well. It ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/09/tripwire-agent-install-problem-and-solution-error-pathname-is-a-read-only-mount/ It was only 5 years ago when me and several of my friends at Sprint started playing with some new handsets we'd been given.  Of course we loaded them up with goofy ringers(this is before anyone was selling them, you just found them and downloaded them or made them with ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/08/technology-catches-up-to-dreams-video-ringtones/ Sure, sure, if you're up on the latest in Prius add-ons you know that you can retrofit your Prius with a solar panel for the roof for around 4-6k, but now Toyota is planning on selling this alternative power source as an option. I'm very excited about this trend. ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/07/07/toyota-prius-now-with-solar/ I recently bought a Canon Pixma MX700 Office All-On-One Inkjet Printer (2186B002). It's a flatbed scanner, fax and printer combo. I mainly purchased it because it gets pretty good reviews for it's ability to scan in documents straight to PDF, which is something I desire as I continue ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/06/30/troubleshooing-canon-pixma700/ Well, I read about this a few weeks ago, but didn't get around to writing about it.  Embarq has given up on the MVNO model for wireless cellular coverage.  Unfortunately Embarq didn't partner with the right company for MVNO access as the majority of their local landline service was delivered ... http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2008/06/27/mvno-news-embarq-bails-and-helio-to-be-dissolved/