Author Archives: richo

About richo

Flying, coffee, computer stuff.

First psych0tik hackathon

psych0tik will be hosting it’s first hackathon on the weekend of the 24th of September! We’re passionate about hackery and want to dedicate a weekend to it. For those not familiar with the term, a hackathon is generally when a … Continue reading

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psych0tik’s Debian Repo

I’ve been using this privately for a while now, but it’s time to open it up to the public, I think. You can include it with the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://packages.psych0tik.net/apt/ sid main contrib non-free At present this … Continue reading

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twat – A cli for posting to twitter

I released today the first alpha of my CLI twitter application, twat. If you use rubygems you can install it with `gem install twat`, else you can clone it from my github repo at Twat. Configuration is reasonably simple, Do … Continue reading

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Singularity Summit AU11 wrapup

Australia’s second Singularity Summit was a roaring success, with fascinating talks delivered over the weekend and from what I’m hearing, more fantastic talks in the days after and leading up to the conference itself which sadly I wasn’t able to … Continue reading

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Panda Hacktop

This is by no means a new mod ( http://www.applemacbook.com/mods/5-keyboard-mods-for-the-undecided-macbook-owner ), but it’s new to me. Enough with the words, on with the pichas: The matrix thing running is https://github.com/richo/matrix , but also very buggy.

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Grub Embedding, blocklists and bios_grub partitions

This has tripped me up so many times, and the parted invocation needed to fix it is hard to find on google. The issue is that with GPT, grub won’t have room to embed all of it’s needed files, leading … Continue reading

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