Nethack Scores — February 19, 2007

ben@calamity:~$ nethack -s -v

 No  Points     Name                                                   Hp [max]
  1       5088  ben-Sam-Hum-Fem-Law died in The Gnomish Mines on
                level 6.  Killed by a blue jelly.                       -  [64]
  2       1616  ben-Kni-Hum-Mal-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom on
                level 3.  Killed by a hill orc.                         -  [42]
  3       1119  ben-Arc-Gno-Fem-Neu died in The Gnomish Mines on
                level 4.  Killed by an iguana, while helpless.          -  [28]
  4        358  ben-Sam-Hum-Fem-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom on
                level 3.  Killed by a black pudding.                    -  [26]

Howto: Installing Windows XP on second (non SATA) disk

1. remove non SATA disk
2. install windows on remaining disk as normal
3. re-install SATA disk
4. add to grub:
   
   title Windows XP
   map (hd0) (hd1)
   map (hd1) (hd0)
   rootnoverify (hd1,0)
   savedefault
   makeactive
   chainloader +1

Howto: SCP droplet for Mac OSX

1. start apple script editor

1a. arrange ssh key pairs between source and target machines

2. paste following code (changing the first line as appropriate)


property scp_target : "user@host:path/to/images"
on open fileList
repeat with thisFile in fileList
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of thisFile
do shell script ("scp " & item_path & " " & scp_target)
end repeat
end open


3. File -> Save As -> choose application and check “run only” only

4. drop files onto the droplet

Howto burn Dual Layer DVD in Linux

A simple terminal command to burn an iso, just cut and paste:


growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao \
-use-the-force-luke=break:1913760 -dvd-compat -speed=2 \
-Z /dev/hda=IMAGE.000


replace IMAGE.OOO with whatever your backup file is called, and of course /dev/hda with the mount-point of your burner.

To figure out which of my optical drives is which, I run:
dmesg | grep -e 'hd.:'