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Decode This – Free VIN Decoder

Posted September 20, 2012 By Landis V

http://www.decodethis.com/

This is a handy link to have if you’re buying a used car.  It’s surprising the level of information you can determine about a vehicle given just the VIN.  Then you can do your basic research on components with much more specificity.

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http://newagora.me/2012/05/12/governor-gary-johnson-i-need-to-be-in-the-national-presidential-debates-in-order-to-win-the-presidency/

I had been looking for some information on who Johnson would replace the idiot Ben Bernanke with in 2014 and coming up pretty empty.  Someone pointed me to this, in which he discusses having people apply and picking the most eligible, including Paul if he was interested.  Seems like a reasoned approach to me.

Johnson is the only reasonable candidate who will appear on the ballot in most states this year.  Both Obama and Romney will continue a pattern of the same behavior.  I believe another 4 years of Obama will be sufficient to completely run the country into the ground.  While I think Romney will move us in the same direction on the whole, I think it will be a much slower pace… maintaining the depression instead of provoking the revolt.

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[root] Mobile ODIN Pro – Android Apps on Google Play

Posted September 17, 2012 By Landis V

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro&hl=en

Might have to pick this one up at some point.  I can see it potentially being useful.

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Negative Externality – Economics

Posted September 14, 2012 By Landis V

http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/negative-externality.php

Good read, pretty straightforward.  Gives a clear path beyond the subject itself to allow the student to think about the situation rather than analyze the condition of the externality.

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Arch Linux (and ownCloud) on a PogoPlug POGO-E02

Posted September 13, 2012 By Landis V

Update:  Please see my newer articles about getting Debian running on the E02’s as well as a functional ownCloud instance.

PogoPlug hardware seems to be notoriously mislabeled as to the version it is running.  My experience was no exception. I ordered a POGO-P21, the label on the box showed it was a P21, but the label on the foot of the device shows that it’s the Kirkwood-based E02.  A good hint to this is the following output from ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ when SSH’ed to the device while running the native Pogo software (credit to the thread at http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2133 for this information):

Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 1192.75

Get your basic Arch environment installed using the instructions at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray for the E02 version.  For other models, you’re on your own.  For my E02, I was operational in the Arch environment after following these steps and rebooting.

Next steps are as follows (currently incomplete, but a good start):

#Update your base system
pacman -Syu

#Install Apache 2.2
pacman -S extra/apache

#Install PHP (I think this will include several of the required modules for ownCloud, as commented below)
pacman -S extra/php

# Confirm installation of php-json later using:
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/php_json.h
# php /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so
# Add “extension=json.so” to /etc/php/php.ini
# per http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=7928
# May be same for PHP XML per http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/php/files/
# ^ also mbstring
# ^ and gd
# ^ perhaps zip.so, but under modules.
pacman -S curl
# Say “y” to install
# php5-curl as usr/lib/php/modules/curl.so?
wget http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
mv owncloud /srv/http/

Right now, I have a working HTTP server, but that’s all I have the time for this evening.  PHP is not yet operational, permissions are not yet configured, and there is nothing in place to lock things down.  With a little luck I’ll have an opportunity to revisit this article and post some additional information to finalize your setup in the near future.  Good luck!

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http://www.keepassx.org/news/2012/07/361

This is an interesting tidbit to run across, and something I’ve been looking forward to for a while.  I never found running classic KeePass under WINE to be a particularly enjoyable experience, but since I only use KeePass 2.x files (I often forget why, but there’s some reason that I remember every time I read through the differences) I was stuck with that as my only option.  Will have to see if I can get this to compile and run, and then see what I can come up with for options on my Android.

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https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

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