Todd's Geek Hobbies

A nirvana of juicy tips, tidbits, and pithy pontification about Todd's favorite geek pastimes: PCs (XP and Linux), Software Development, PDAs, Chess, and whatever else Todd geeks out with.

Run only one instance of a bash shell script

Say you write a shell script and want ensure that only one instance of your script is running. This is handy if, for instance, you are goin...

Fun with grid certs

Here are some useful openssl commands if you regularly need to renew/process certificates from DOEGrids (department of energy) to authentica...

Sync clock with VMWare Player

I run Windows on my laptop but oftentimes fire up Linux Virtual Machines using VMWare Player. Because I use my virtual machines to build sou...

SOLUTION : Amazon Instant Video fails on Linux with flash Updating message

Yesterday we were happily watching an episode of 24 via Amazon Prime Instant video on our media PC which runs Ubuntu 11.10 (specifically, My...

Solution for Thinkpad X220 brightness controls disabled after resume from sleep / hibernate

I have noticed on my new Thinkpad X220 that the on-screen brightness controls sometimes stop working after resume from sleep / hibernate. I...

Software installed on a new Windows 7 machine

I recently replaced my ThinkPad X61 laptop with a shiny new ThinkPad X220 running Windows 7 Professional and the ThinkVantage Tools. In ord...

Review: Linksys E3000 is buggy

I recently purchased a new home router, the Cisco Linksys E3000, in order to add support at home for 802.11n at 5 Ghz . What attracted me ...

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Todd T: I am your host, Todd Tannenbaum. During the day I am a Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences working on distributed systems. During the night I often drink tasty beer - but that is another hobby entirely.

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