This article explains how to build a serial cable adapter for the Epson projectors. This cable uses two adapters that go from DB9 to RJ45. In between, you use a regular telephone cord.

Windows ships with Offline Files (aka Offline Folders) on, more or less. These things suck, mainly because they're a little unreliable, and seem to lose data, or files get wedged and won't sync.

If you rebuild a Microsoft Exchange Server and reconstruct mailboxes, your Outlook clients will notice this and give you two options: Connect to the Temporary mailbox, or Use Old Data.

Though I'm now officially an Exchange hater, there's still one thing that really sucks about running a Unixy email server: authentication and encryption.

It's been hard to configure for years -

1. It's hard to back up.

I like JS, but typing "function" all the time sucks, especially because you're using it all over the place. Here's a typical use, and a way to make it more terse:

x = function (s) { ... };

I wanted to draw a network diagram in OOo Draw, but didn't find anything to help.

I fell for marketing and advertising, again. I bought one of those stupid antennas with the little dial knob on it. What's really stupid is that I already had one similar to it, and it sucked.

This is a scratchpad for noting some disk transfer speeds. There are so many potential configurations, and possible bottlenecks...

I just blew two hours figuring out that a GLib GHashTable is not a descendent of GObject. Duh!

Symptom
Had "one way audio", where I could speak, but could not hear.

Environment
Default settings.
One NAT to the internet:
[internet]-------[nat]------[xlite]
Fix

There are a bunch of different ways to do this, but this is the simplest in my experience.

Applications
Firefox

It's been so long since I've done any C programming that I feel "Like A Virgin" in C, touched for the very first time.

This is a short tutorial about using ctags (or exuberant ctags) to work with the vim editor to give you a great code browser.