iPod Photo problem solved

Finally fixed something that's been shitting me for weeks. When transferring large amounts of data to my iPod photo I'd occasionally start getting hundreds of errors like:

kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 32669068

kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 32669069

kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 32669070

And basically the pod would crap out and unmount itself. But! Luckily enough I stumbled across this patch that seemed like it would do the trick, however I tested it and still got the same errors. Finally realised that the 40GB and the photo have different product id's! (use lsusb to check this). So, if anyone else has a photo and it's crapping out insert the following code into drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h and there should be happy days all round:

UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x05ac, 0x1204, 0x0001, 0x0001,

                "Apple",

                "iPod Photo",

                US_SC_DEVICE, US_PR_DEVICE, NULL,

                US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY ),

Someone let me know if this doesn't work!

New Look

Well I finally stopped procrastinating and spent a few hours customising the blogger template.

Like it?

I'm not really happy with it, too much pink, too many "girly" colours. I think I let myself be influenced but I cant really be arsed changing it right now and I dont really give a fuck if there's girly colours on my web page if you've got a problem you dont know me.

Anyway, I wanna give it a more retro-arcade game feel to it, and get rid of that IFRAME that holds the latest links from my del.icio.us. As this page is XHTML1.1 strict (or supposed to be) I should use an XMLHttpRequest and a div with overflow: scroll. If only I could upload files to blogger that would be a whole lot easier.

Right now the whole iframe thing depends on a cron job running on my gateway that uploads the latest 15 links to the KCheckGmail web site once per hour. SF shouldn't find out that I'm using them to host stuff for my blog, as long as this page doesnt get slashdotted it should be ok. I'm almost positive it's not against the SF terms of service...

But I'm not going to pay for hosting. Screw that...

Rohan Owes Me Money

Better not forget. It's in public now, Roh!

20 From last week
30 from today

50 next friday! It's like a savings without the interest...

The Breaker Downer Of China Towner

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Originally uploaded by The Breaker Downer Of China Towner.

Straight outta Dublin, crazy motherfucker named Seagrave

ya bleedin boiya

X style mouse in windows

Every time I have to use Windows, having to use the keyboard to copy and paste always annoys me. With this nifty little program, your mouse behaves more like it does in X - select text to copy and press middle button to paste. Makes life so much easier.