I decided to redo my Moleskine pen holder hack this time with black duct tape – which I mentioned would probably look better. Sure enough, I was able to go from this:
To this:
Moleskine hacking
NOTICE
This “hack” has been improved/superseded by a [cosmetically] better one that can be found here. Otherwise, feel free to read on about the “concept” and methodology behind it.
One of the problems a notebook owner will face is the fact that they will not only have to lug notebook all around, all the time; but that they would need their writing materials handy as well.
Moleskine owners often tend to take their writing materials just as seriously as the notebook they write on – just like me. I only want(ed) to use a [mechanical] pencil with the notebook, and that I like to have a “pen-eraser” (for lack of a better term) for mistakes I make (because mechanical pencil built-in erasers, if present at all, suck).
There have been a lot of “hacks” done with Moleskines in the internet that address just that: trying to integrate your writing materials into your notebook to make it easier to transport. We have hacks such as the Moleskine pen-hack, pencil holder hack, quiver hack, duct-tape pen hack, among others – feel free to post a comment if you know of another hack, I’m trying to check all options to see what might be the most effective (and cheap) implementation.
And so in this post, I present my own pen-holder hack, sort of a tutorial (actually more of a commentary) on the reasoning behind the materials used, and construction “decisions.” Read More
WRT54G P2P problems?
I noticed that I’ve been getting erratic behaviour with my router whenever I had bittorrent running. After a while it would always slow down to a crawl – where I had to reboot the router to get things back to normal. While rebooting the router manually (or via GUI, after much waiting) solves this. The problem always returned, which suggests that there’s something wrong with how the router handles P2P connections. I decided to look around for cases of the same problem.
The default firmware for Linksys and most routers track old connections for five days, then start to clear dead connections – which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections which the router can’t take. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.
Linksys has yet to address this issue, but there is a fix. If you use alternative WRT54G firmware, you can put in a start-up script to fix this problem.
I just applied the fix they mention down this post, only time will tell if it actually worked. Read More
Lightboxing and Flickr
NOTICE
CONTENTS NO LONGER APPLICABLE
The content discussed in this post is no longer valid; as I’m now using a different “lightbox” implementation.
More here
JC made me check out his installation of a cool WordPress plugin that does lightboxing. I decided to apply the same stuff in my blog – and modify it a bit to be able to link to the image’s Flickr page somewhat dynamically.
Results
If you’re not interested in the details, then just spot the difference between these two lightbox-enabled links (I just hope it does work as I intended it to).
Here’s an image which I linked to Flickr
Here’s an image which I linked to the Gallery within my domian
LINK REMOVED (as the old gallery doesn’t exist anymore)
If you noticed the difference, and are interested in how I did that – read on… Read More
Friendly reminder for PhpBB users
Thanks to some BP Onliners‘ messages, I was able to make sure I backed up our site’s database just in case.
Apparently, our sister site Hangad‘s discussion board has been hacked. From the look of it, either of two things happened. It’s a HTML/CSS hack, or the an administrative (or super moderator) account was compromised. I would have to go with the former based on the source code I saw.