I have a rol of printer paper that was used by an old 8bit computer. I forgot which one, one out of my collection.
I dont think it is thermal paper, maybe the printer uses electricity just like the movie clip you see below. (Well .. not using 220V directly on the paper maybe) 🙂
I think it was Burns Night 2005. We took one pipebag, took the drones out. And added one blowpipe and three chanters. We were struggling to play the damn beast with 4 people.
A picture should exist somewhere, add it when found.
Smallpipe adaptor for two chanters.
Xmas tree lights in the drones
I’ve seen some do this, but never with xmas balls also.
Playing the THX sound
Alternative playing
Above in the movie with two chanter you can see tape. You can tape other notes, for accidentals.
I’ve started a set with our folkband with my hands reversed. (Left on the bottom part of the chanter, right hand toppart) After playing amazing grace, I switched hands every few bars.
Playing high A gracenote with tophand index finger.
Play a tune and slide bottomhand over your top hand down.
xrandr is an official configuration utility to the RandR (Resize and Rotate) X Window System extension. It can be used to set the size, orientation or reflection of the outputs for a screen.
Someone broke my screen at a hackers event. The terminal was really hard to read with the black parts, so i tilted the screen
Quiet friday at work, playing with my little trusty 2530p. I’m using xmonad, so i don’t need any fancy work laptop.
Fun with distorting the screen
Another quiet friday at work, working from home, i turned all monitoring displays upside-down, sideways, or rotated them every so much seconds.
While this is a lot of fun to use, i used this to get my monitorsetups exactly the way i wanted, at home or at work. Different screen sizes, height differences .. no problem.
A fun tool to use is: https://github.com/qurn/xrandr-keystone-helper
Never ask me to reset your password, i you are to stupid to remember or not using a passwordsafe … I WILL give you a new password, and you WILL remember not having to ask me again. 🙂 On this day i drew some example pictures for colleages.
Okay .. now some tips to create uniq passwords for every site in you head.
NOTES! .. CNN example uses google as secret key .. Want to type faster and not using mouse? .. Press home!
Type website
dirkjan (press home)
(press right) s
(press right) e
(press right) c
(press right) r
(press right) e
(press right) t
dsierckrjeatn <- your password
I ordered a powerbank a while ago, which had to be shipped from china.
I got this, and tought “I’ve been scammed”
A adaptor without label/manual and NOT what i’ve ordered
So i send a mail to the place i’ve ordered from, this was their answer.
You need to unscrew the adapter, in which you will find your ordered product. Your product has been shipped in this way since they can still be difficult at customs. And then the shipping will take longer again.
I worked for a highly secure position in a financial place.
We had to use so-called RSA keys.
These keys we needed to get access to the servers.
That morning i came in office and had the following conversation with the manager:
ME: It’s far too easy to lose my RSA key, so I left it at home. Manager: So how are you getting any work done? ME: Well … i can get the login codes from here, while opening a browser to a popular social site. Here is my webcam, pointing to my RSA key. (For everyone to see) Manager: …. blank stare ME: Now i can access it from anywhere! Manager: … buttt
I recorded the key, so it displayed only a few old codes. (It was a looping animated GIF, which looked like a webcam picture)
When explaining he laughed. A two minute joke, two hours making it ..
"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."