Griffin Technology makes a nifty device called the Griffin Powermate (Available at ThinkGeek). It’s essentiall a knob+button you put on your desktop. However, unless you have software that can take advantage of it, it’s basically a lighted paperweight. I got fed up not having an easy way to monitor/read this device […]
A new version of acdctl has been released which incorporates changes kindly sent in by Michael Hanselmann. The tool now directly supports one more display in the apple product line. Additionally it can now take in the vendor/product id on the command line to make it easier to test against unsupported displays.
If you […]
Greylisting has had much said about it over the past year or two and it seems to be a valid concept at reducing spam. This is my experience implementing it using Qmail, SPP, Debian and Ubuntu. The idea is that since most spammers do not use proper mail queues to handle their SMTP […]
Having that software itch again I just had to get my display brightness turned down on my Apple Cinema Display. It’s a wonderful piece of equipment, but it has no external controls to manipulate brightness. Just a soft-key that when touched flashes. When connected to a mac this key launches their display […]
I bought one of those proximity USB Wireless Security Locks and so last week I tried my hand at writing USB software using libusb.
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