Quickies
New Theme - Windows XP
Inspired by the Old Computer Challenge, I created a new theme for the website and it’s now default for the month of July, based on the default Luna Windows XP theme. Yes, the taskbar should have been interactive, but it’s too hot outside and I got lazy. However, this theme has an easter egg. Let me know if you find it ;)
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Windows Media Player Nostalgia - Windows XP
The year is 2002 and you’ve got your friend over to show him your collection of Windows Media Player skins
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Sharknado physics

Shark hits the pavement and bounces, leaves a perfect shark-shaped imprint on the ground. Just like real life.
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Mounting OSX Time Capsule shared drive on Linux
If you’ve been trying to mount an OS X Time Capsule disk over the network using Samba/CIFS/SMB and you’ve recently run into the problem: “mount error(13): Permission denied”, and you KNOW the password is right then this may help. Basically you now need to inform Linux CIFS of the specific security mechanism to use (sec=ntlm). E.g. To mount the drive as root (where share_pwd is the password required to access the drive):
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You can add this to a cron as well ;)
Shamelessly copy/pasted from here
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Me in Oxygen Not Included

A fan sent me this screenshot and bio sheet of a character in the game “Oxygen Not Included” they named after me and who pretty much matches me completely. Thank you for the feature!