The Amazing, Walking, Talking, Human Vegetable!

To quote my wonderful wife, "This is why we don’t take ‘brain dead’ people off life support."

Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."

Vegetables never felt so good.

Ben Stein: Expelled

I’ve been told to shut up a few times myself. That’s how these people operate: If you disagree with me, you should be silenced. For more info on this movie and for theatre times and locations, go to http://www.expelledthemovie.com

Greasemonkey: 2002 Ford Explorer – Electrical Issues

I don’t really know if this is worth posting about. The solution seems rather obvious, but just in case someone find this useful, I’ll post it anyhow.

This weekend, while in the midst of a 6-hour drive to the in-laws, the truck’s ABS light started flashing. "Odd" I thought "I guess we’ll have to get [...]

Yotta, Kilo, Bits, & Bytes

From XKCD:

Now I just need a table explaining the variances of "gigabarts" and the difference between hertz and bytes :-)

A Simple Uptime Output Method

If you’ve ever tried to parse the output of "uptime", you know it can be complicated. There’s a simpler solution: Use the raw numbers from /proc/uptime. Here’s a simple script that spits out the days and remaining time in digital clock format:

    cat /proc/uptime | awk ‘{printf "%d%s%.2d%s%.2d%s%.2d%s" , $1/86400 , " days, " [...]

Recovering from a dd_rhelp add_chunk error

If you’ve got a crashed disk, dd_rhelp is a very useful tool for quickly recovering a large amount of data from just about any failed disk. I used it earlier this week to help recover a 160GB linux LVM group member drive. Unfortunately, after a while of running, it hit this error:

    dd_rhelp: error: [...]