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1200 fps Mentos and Diet Coke

08-May-08

SSH Keys Howto Quicky

11-Oct-07

Toss this little shell script in your bin dir and you can quickly create and setup ssh keys between your client and server. I called it sshkeys.sh but you can name it what you want. #!/bin/bash KEY_PRIVATE=”$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa” KEY_PUBLIC=”${KEY_PRIVATE}.pub” if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then echo “Usage: $0 <[user@]server>” exit fi if [ ! [...]

Import Thunderbird Contacts Into GMail

01-May-07

It’s easy to use the “cut” command to convert your Thunderbird contacts into a format that GMail is happy to import. Start out in Thunderbird, click Tools, Address Book. Once the Address Book pops up click Tools, Export. A save dialog should popup asking you to for a filename and folder. Look down by the [...]

photo cube – frameless, cheap and easy!

08-Feb-07

Find a block then tape or glue a photo to each face. Or you can do it that hard way like this guy.

Bicycle Hoist or “How to get the wife’s bike out of my way”

08-Feb-07

Nail two pulleys to the ceiling, run some rope through the pulleys and tie it to the bike, pull. Or, waste a bunch of time reading how this guy did.