The Completely Evil Blog

Logitech Control Center for the Mac – OSX

EvilT — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:13:02 +0000

OK, so for some reason I keep forgetting this. The Mac OSX Logitech control center screws up everything on the Mac. I had just installed it again last weekend and my hot corners stopped working, sub-menus required me to hold down the left click to stay active, and the only way the screen saver would work was based on inactivity timeout.

In hot corner (set for screen saver) or in screen saver test in System Preferences, the screen saver will start for a second or two then stop and return you to the main screen. I played around with it for a week or so then remembered that the Logitech Control Center had caused this exact same issue under Leopard and Snow Leopard. Well seems as though it’s still not fixed. I tried the latest 3.51 this time and it still screwed up the screen saver. If you are having a similar issue go to your Applications-utilities folder and uninstall LCC (Logitech Control Center).

RootKeeper, Droid X2, Root, and the 1.3.418 update

EvilT — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:58:46 +0000

If someone out there has a Droid X2 that may be rooted and the cell provider is trying to push an update on you. Look in the market for an app called Voodoo OTA RootKeeper.

First you would tell it to ‘backup su’ (then a checkbox will be next to the line that says “Protected su copy available”). Then perform a temp un-root, Allow the update to install. When android says the update was successful, launch Voodoo OTA RootKeeper again and tell it to restore/reroot the phone.

Easy as pie…

Ahhhhhh… The smell of fresh science. Pielke introduces a new concept: Linking current events to climate change and the Bullshit button.

EvilT — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:52:41 +0000

Quoted from the Pielke Article:
The full IPCC Special Report on Extremes
is out today, and I have just gone through the sections in Chapter 4
that deal with disasters and climate change. Kudos to the IPCC — they
have gotten the issue just about right, where “right” means that the
report accurately reflects the academic literature on this topic. Over
time good science will win out over the rest — sometimes it just takes a
little while.

A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):

“There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends
in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or
anthropogenic climate change”
“The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable
to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and
extratropical storms and tornados”
“The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”

This quote, however fun it is, does not give you enough info to play with…

Please read the entire article here:

Then when done have fun with the rest of his blog…

Vizio XVT553SV the Onkyo series of receivers and the elusive Audio Return Channel

EvilT — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:22:36 +0000

It seems to be rather difficult to find details on how you hook up the Vizio TV to any receiver. I uncovered this little gem this morning and I think it will solve my issues. The only port on the Vizio XVT553SV that supports Audio Return Channel on the HDMI CEC is port 1. Make sure your receiver is plugged into port one…

Will update after I get it all tested…

OSX Lion, Solaris 11 Express, CIFS share errors, NFS share errors, and the AFP napp-it solution

EvilT — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:19:08 +0000

Ok, after all the problems and wrangling trying to get CIFS shares to work reliably with OSX Lion (problems writing to CIFS shares, mainly error 50 etc…). I’ve installed napp-it on the server along with netatalk (there is a default netatalk install in the napp-it howto on the site). I turned off all the SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NFS shares (except what I need for my Winderz friends) and moved all my shares to AFP.

Since Lion will no longer let you use USB drives connected to an Airport Extreme I had to come up with something (I had wrestled with trying to set up time machine on iSCSI, but issues with compatibility from old iSCSI initiators and the cost of the new ones drove me away). So far everything works perfectly, even time machine.

I may post howto’s but since napp-it is reasonably easy to use (a little clunky, but everything is there) I will wait until I see some questions here before I go to the trouble.

Representative Mike Kelly from PA

EvilT — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:43:56 +0000

I don’t know the man, but I like the sentiment.

I’m beginning to think that a major issue with congress is a lack of specific goals and accountability. Where else could you have a job that requires you to finish a task at a specific time, but allows you to extend that time, alter the requirements for the task, or just ignore the task because people won’t like the answer? It would not be an effective way to run any organization.

I am sick of having a government that refuses to be financially responsible (or even to run the country) because they are too busy with partisan political posturing for the media. Many of our elected representatives are currently allowed to play at brinksmanship in order to ensure continuing press coverage (free advertising complete with rhetoric) for their parties. This becomes problematic when it is granted a higher priority than actually getting something done. So if there isn’t time to both waggle your finger in the press and produce legislation, since there is little accountability, Congress gets the option to pick which priority to service. Lately the balance is pretty slanted to finger waggling…

However, I do enjoy the fact that, if they cannot agree on legislation, they cannot spend more of my money than they currently do…

Virtualbox Ubuntu Linux guest shares via Guest Additions

EvilT — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:30:20 +0000

Ok, I have Linux VM’s running on a Solaris host. One thing I can never find anywhere is instructions on how to mount the shares. It is actually very easy to do.

1. Install the guest additions in the guest.

2. Select the directories you want to share to the guest via the VirtualBox control panel (Settings->Shared Folders).

3. And now the missing piece. On the linux system make your user account part of the vboxsf group, any group that should be able to get to these shares

The shares will appear in the /media folder on my Ubuntu guest prefaced with a “sf_”. So if I share the folder to the guest as Videos, I would find a /media/sf_Videos folder. If you do not add the account in question to the vboxsf group then you will see no files in the folder.

I first ran into this setting up a Plex media server in a guest. Plex could not see any files in the folder, but when you add the plex account to the /etc/group file(example below) it works like a champ.

vboxsf:x:1001:plex

Solaris Virtualbox host fails install of extension pack

EvilT — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:21:17 +0000

This problem started after I upgraded to the latest Oracle Solaris 11 and tried to install the VirtualBox 4.1.6 update. When I would go to add the new Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack I would enter a username and password and the install fails.

The current workaround is to use VBoxManage from the command line to install the extension pack.

VBoxManage extpack install

Watch setting manual for the Citizen E812 movement.

EvilT — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:18:03 +0000

I’m putting it here so I can quit looking for it every time I need it.

Citizen E812 manual

John Deere Oil Filter Cross Reference – D130 42″ cut

EvilT — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:30:28 +0000

Use 10W30 Oil

OEM Filter GY20577
John Deere Filter AM125424
Briggs and Stratton 492932
Purolator L10241
Fram PH8170
Napa Gold 1056
WIX 51056
Kohler 12 050 01-S