http://deadbeef.blogsome.com Sating the digital medium with semi-intelligible filler. Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:04:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Reader, I am such a pretentious bastard. So much so that I had to have my blog running on my own site and it had to be running Typo (powered by Rails and written in Ruby). Thus it has moved. Gaze upon it’s new shininess! blog.erik.rainey.name This site, along with my previous ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2006/01/05/blog-move-again/ If you’re an SSH tunneler like myself, you know that you can’t use RDP with a tunnel reflected off yourself (localhost). I just figured out how to do this. Though, it’s rather simple and I’m somewhat ashamed that I didn’t think of it before. Just add a line to ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/12/23/microsoft-remote-desktop/ I’ve been eating up alot of my free time installing and configuring an Asterisk server. Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (private branch exchange) which you can use as a mega-answering machine, a conference center for your family, and a home automation interface, amoung an infinity of other clever things. ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/12/13/asterisk-worklog/ I can’t believe I actually wrote this up. All the movies I’ve seen since I’ve lived in Dallas. http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/12/02/my-new-shame/ Over the last week I’ve been reorganizing my home office. Last weekend I went to IKEA and picked out a GALANT Desk, after I played around with their IKEA Office Planner. Having this tool is completely invaluable! I got the explicit list of components I needed from the tool once ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/11/03/office-reorganization/ You’ll find 2 new t-shirts in my pixel tee’s store. Ruby Life and Workout Shirt (that one’s for working out). These are in addition to the normal stock of fine nerd-related t-shirts, such as Katamari Damacii. Enjoy! Technorati Tags: pixeltees http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/2-new-t-shirts/ TiVo just opened their TiVo Blog today. I hope one of their first posts isn’t “Going Out of Business”. Technorati Tags: tivo http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/tivo-blog/ … you just got served. I find it delicious irony that his visage is sold within a capitalist society on practically everything. You’d think he was a real proponent of the system instead of it’s pretty-boy nemesis. Technorati Tags: capitalism http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/10/27/dude/ I discovered Backpackit.com a while ago but I never really used it. Today I started writing a lot of things down that I’d like to do over the next week and I realized that I desperately need it. So I went full boar and fleshed-out my free account. Check out ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/10/27/backpackit/ Forwarding your iTunes library to your work computer is not as hard as one might think. All you need to do is follow these steps. 1.) Enable Library Sharing on home machine’s iTunes. 2.) You have to be familiar with ssh tunneling (try here for a tutorial) or if you don’t ... http://deadbeef.blogsome.com/2005/10/25/listening-to-your-itunes-from-work/