Connecting a Nintendo DS/Wii to an Airport Express

I was trying to do this, and it was driving me up the wall. I put it in WEP mode, but the DS/Wii wouldn't take the password.

The trick is you need to use the HEX password, which is not what Apple uses by default.



You need to use "Equivalent Network Password" to see the WEP code the DS/Wii will want. Once you have this, it'll connect quite easily.

Of course if you're only using a Wii, you should use WPA2.

VMWare Server USB on Ubuntu 7.10

If you want to use USB devices with VMWare Server on Ubuntu 7.10 you need to do the following:

Shutdown VMWare

sudo mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb/

Start VMware, and load your virtual machine.
Select the USB device in VM -> Removable Devices -> USB

Note that if you want usbfs to be mounted at boot, you'll want to add this line to /etc/fstab:


usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0


I put it directly under the proc entry.

Awesome desktop images

I was looking for some 1080p images, and found them at InterfaceLIFT.org. If you edit the URL a bit, you can directly search for 1080p. There are some very nice ones; now I only need to find some uncompressed TIFFs.

Remotely waking up a Mac

I had forgotten to change a cronjob on my Mac Book Pro at home, but by the time I got to work and sshed back in, it was asleep.

The server was on Gentoo, so I looked at the Gentoo wiki and found that "emerge wakeonlan" would get me the tool to wake up the Mac.

But now I needed the MAC address, and it was asleep! But I remembered dhcp, and looked in /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.leases and sure enough, there was the MAC address of the Mac.

Running wakeonlan, waiting for it to come alive, and sshing in worked great.

Paladin Song

I'm a dwarven pally,
Short and stout,
Here is my hammer,
Here is my mount,
When I see a Horde,
I scream and shout,
'Bubble shield and hearthstone out!'

Phoenix LOL

Here is a flickr set of Phoenix Wright in a LOLCats theme.

Simply rsync command

If you want to simply copy the contents of one directory to another using rsync (so you can resume if copying to an SMB mounted filesystem on a wireless link, for example):


rsync -av --size-only /Volumes/Source Directory/ /Volumes/data/Destination Directory


-av tells rsync to archive and be verbose, --size-only tells it only to compare file sizes (as it is a local link, it's faster to just copy the file than to read it up and determine differences). The trailing slash should be on the source directory, but not on the destination directory.

Iron Soccer Ball

The rest of the world is just as messed up as we are, if not worse.

Proof is presented. QED

Cowbell Hero

Cowbell Hero!

Everyone Learn Spanish!

Watch, and disbelieve.

But it gets better! The bull!

Even better! The exporter!

The stunning finale!

WTPF?