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The random ramblings of Pope not Calle of Flaxborough
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23:19 on Setting Orange, 63 Aftermath YOLD 3173 by !calle
Laphroaighsenap
35 g brunt senapsfrö
35 g gult senapsfrö
90 ml vatten
30 ml Laphroaigh
30 ml solrosolja
15 ml brödsirap (med maltextrakt)
5 ml salt
Mixa ihop allt tills lagom slätt
Häll över i en burk och låt stå nån dag

Årets julsenapsförsök utan senapspulver.
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22:28 on Setting Orange, 63 Aftermath YOLD 3173 by !calle
Glöggsill
1 burk försaltade sillfiléer för inläggning (ca 200 g avrunnen vikt)
150 ml vatten
50 ml ättiksprit (12%)
200 ml socker
1 påse glöggkryddor (25 g blandat ingefära, pomeransskal, kanel, kryddnejlika, kardemumma)
Lägg sillfiléerna i vatten
Koka en lag av vatten, ättiksprit, socker och kryddor
Låt lagen svalna
Häll av sillfiléerna och skär i bitar
Lägg ihop i en burk och låt stå några dagar

Skall bli spännande att se hur det blir, detta mitt första plågsamma sillinläggningsexperiment.
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15:24 on Sweetmorn, 55 Confusion YOLD 3173 by !calle Music: last.fm Yello's Similar Artists
LifeDrive hack of the day
I turbocharged my LifeDrive today, by replacing the internal Microdrive with a CompactFlash card instead.

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The rubber feet covering the torx (T5) screws had already fallen off of my unit due to heat a long time ago, but unless they have they need to be removed first.
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The two torx screws can be easily removed with a T5 screwdriver.
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The metal casing is held by six prongs along its side and bottom edges. Press the plastic sides of the device to release them and crack it open.
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Metal casing removed reveals two more torx screws at the bottom corners of the device, holding the inner casing in place.
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Before removing the inner casing the speaker wire needs to be disconnected.
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The inner casing removed, revealing the main PCB of the device with battery, Microdrive and SD-card slot visible on top.
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Disconnect the battery wire before continuing.
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After cutting the WARNING! WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED sticker, the Microdrive can be unplugged from the connector. Remove the blue spacers from the Microdrive and keep for reassembly. Use whatever tools to make a disk image copy to the replacement CompactFlash card.
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Attach spacers to CF card and connect to the drive connector.
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Reconnect battery. Now the LifeDrive performs a reboot from the CF card, takes about 30 seconds instead of 2½ minutes from Microdrive. Wait for it to complete and shut the device off with the powerswitch.
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Reattach inner casing and metal casing in reverse. Don't forget the speaker wire.
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Enjoy a turbocharged LifeDrive experience. Unless you bricked your device, in which case you should've been more careful.
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22:27 on Sweetmorn, 5 Confusion YOLD 3173 by !calle
3173 Kalendar!
The other day I was discussing the need for non-gregorian paper calendars (for confusion inducing office decorations if nothing else) and on this fine Syaday I stumble across a printable wall Kalendar that's supposedly updated every year: 3173 Kalendar!. Everything is already done and googleable.
ODDN: tag:discord.bofh.se,2005:bl/2007-05-31T22:27:52.23505+02:00
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22:09 on Sweetmorn, 28 Discord YOLD 3173 by !calle Mood: inspired
Seeing polarization with the naked eye
According to "Haidinger's brush: the unknown sense", it is possible to learn how to exploit a bug in the human eye and gain the ability to see the polarization of light.

Edit: Indeed it is not only possible, but also easily tried by staring at a large white area on an LCD monitor. Incredibly cool!
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22:18 on Boomtime, 32 Chaos YOLD 3173 by !calle Music: Moby Play: the B Sides
Nacht und Tag
I made some changes to the autoconvert scripts that I use to get a first stab at photos from my EOS20D. Before I let dcraw do as much as possible of the conversion, but now instead I ask it to just dump the raw image in PAM format and let netpbm do all the real work.

before|after
before|after
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11:09 on Afflux YOLD 3172 by !calle Music: parliament: p-funk earth tour (live)
Orkplace music restored
After the orkplace move I'm limited to the crappy windows laptop as far as desktop computing goes, so I found myself lacking proper music listening facilities.

So I ordered a docking station for my LifeDrive® and picked it up on my way to work today. Only bad thing is that it picks up a lot of noise from the other junk on my desktop if I connect the AC adaptor or USB hotsync cable, so I guess I need to hack some proper grounding.
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15:03 on Boomtime, 20 Aftermath YOLD 3172 by !calle
Werecows
A recent news article refers to scientists seeking to mix human and cow. Ask yourself what the phase of the moohn was when this news leaked to the press.
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14:16 on Prickle-Prickle, 5 Bureaucracy YOLD 3172 by !calle
VideoDownloader
At first I thought the VideoDownloader was just another embed/object downloader extension to Firefox, but then I tried it in the wild instead of just their own demo pages; it trawls the page for embedded video objects after AJAX layers and whatnot have transmogrified the contents, making it find even more deeply hidden video streams than the usual bunch manage.
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23:57 on Sweetmorn, 25 Confusion YOLD 3172 by !calle Mood: amazed Music: SR P3 Hiphop
Magic-1
Magic-1 uIP web server is a web server running on a homebrew computer with a homebrew CPU made out of 74 Series TTL logic cans. Wow.
ODDN: tag:discord.bofh.se,2005:bl/2006-06-20T23:57:53.947199+02:00
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13:50 on Boomtime, 1 Confusion YOLD 3172 by !calle Mood: surprised Music: Radiohead: OK Computer
Sometimes you're lucky
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To get a break from teh pollen infested gardening I was doing I went back to the rebuilding of the work corner of my bedroom, trying to expand shelf space into the useless space in the corner above my work bench. Since I already had an IKEA Ivar® next to the bench, I thought that maybe I can take a shorter module and connect on top of the bench. In worst case I'd need to put some padding to get the height correct. But today was apparently my lucky day, and it got perfectly straight on the first attempt!
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02:47 on Setting Orange, 47 Discord YOLD 3172 by !calle Mood: exhausted Music: KaTe: The Kick Inside
To all SCSI cables
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Hello all little SCSI cables out there, this is what happens to you if you refuse to coöperate.

This little bugger completely disrupted a FWD SCSI chain in the Ctrl-C OpenVMS Cluster, and got one of its nasty heads cut off to serve as a warning to the other SCSI cables.
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23:11 on Pungenday, 20 Discord YOLD 3172 by !calle Music: SR P3 Pop
Hidden Emacs Feature of the Day
M-x iswitchb-default-keybindings

Wow. Switching buffers will never be the same.
ODDN: tag:discord.bofh.se,2005:bl/2006-04-03T23:11:49.936665+02:00
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00:40 on Prickle-Prickle, 16 Discord YOLD 3172 by !calle
Object Oriented Stack Machine Language Interpreter
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/home/calle/src/ncpl/ncpl
Entering read_eval_print loop
warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe.
[ \! \{
dup 1 > ? then {
dup 1 - ! *
}
} def.
] @int extend
12 !
GC: found 5 (mark:0.000128s, sweep:0.000030s, total:0.000158s)
1| @int:472 = 479001600
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