Will Bradley - Latest Comments

Re: Best Linux Laptop? Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (“Sputnik”) Review

Porta — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:47:26 -0000

Thanks for sharing your experience with this Dell product I found it useful.

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

Matthew Burnell — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:55:58 -0000

8 hours of round and round until I found this. This was a massive life saver!

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

Damian — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:59:55 -0000

Excellent, that did it!

Re: Best Linux Laptop? Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (“Sputnik”) Review

wilbr — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:59:42 -0000

Hey there! Thanks for asking. I'm still quite pleased; for awhile Ubuntu 12.04 was unstable enough that multiple times a week it would hard-freeze requiring a reboot and potentially losing data, but using Sublime / Google Docs / remote screen sessions this actually wasn't a dealbreaker because I'd get all/most of my data back. Still, quite concerning.

Lately it's only happened once every few weeks. I intend to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu, possibly using a fresh install, to see if this improves anything. (Allegedly there's some kind of Compiz issue with this hardware on older kernels.) Keep in mind I'm using the previous-generation XPS13, so if you buy the latest one it may behave differently/better. Either way having an OEM explicitly support Linux is a nice thing and I'm glad I was able to vote with my dollars.

I haven't had much experience with Lenovo, but their new clicky touchpad gave me carpal tunnel on the second press so that was the main dealbreaker. I know my friends had suggested Lenovo. The nice thing about the XPS13 is that its features and construction are very on-par with Macbook Airs; the touchpad works and feels similarly, it's light and thin, etc. In the end it all depends on what your priorities are though.

Keyboard-wise, it's not quite as awesome tactile-wise as a high-grade desktop keyboard, but the Fn key and other layouts suit me perfectly.

Re: Best Linux Laptop? Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (“Sputnik”) Review

Andrew — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:37 -0000

Will, how's the 3 month update? I'm looking at the XPS 13 versus the Lenovo T440. Had any experience with Lenovos? That's what I've been running Ubuntu on for the last 6 yrs with no major issues but I'm open to something else. Also, how's the keyboard treating you?

Re: Monitoring Remote Hosts with Nagios

Riyad Anabtawi — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:11:14 -0000

Will U Are AWESOME! Thank you buddy! God Bless You! Works like a charm!

Re: Quick n Dirty Digital Signage – with Flickr!

Graham Gallagher — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 02:33:47 -0000

Will, brilliant article...I saw something recent on http://www.lcdtvenclosure.c... that was similar but not as good as yours.

Re: Basic Lathing Operations – Diagram

Bert — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:32:17 -0000

Turning

Re: On Do-ocracy and Structureless Groups

kev — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:09:50 -0000

Order/rules must exist for humans; it can come from within or outside of the participants. By my best estimate, about 1 in 10,000 people are capable of participating in an anarchistic society; everyone else must have some form of external structure to function in a healthy fashion. If you are one of the few fully realized people that has a healthy, internalized social system, contact me:
kevin7314@gmail.com
as a test, you will know, and agree with the validity of this statement:
a functional person, in a dysfunctional society, is dysfunctional.

Re: Best Linux Laptop? Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (“Sputnik”) Review

wilbr — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:10:24 -0000

Bastards! That'd do it. Selling me old stock. Oh well, at least it's at a discount.

Re: Best Linux Laptop? Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (“Sputnik”) Review

Herman Weisang — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:33:58 -0000

I think the reason you saved a few hundred Dollars is because Dell seems to have sold you the Ivy Bridge version of this laptop for some reason. Did you order it a while ago or just recently, if I may ask?
Yours has the i7-3537U CPU (3rd gen). That also explains the lack of a touchscreen, since this older version of the XPS 13 didn't have it.
The current version of this machine (which is the one you can currently see on their website, it was introduced in November 2013) has a 4th gen Haswell CPU (i7-4500U), slightly better integrated graphics and a touchscreen. They also no longer offer the Atheros WiFi card as an option (I guess they learned).

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

pdisme — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:50:49 -0000

Worked perfectly!

Re: 24-volt Relay Controlling 120 volts

sparky — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:53:03 -0000

I'm going to be taking on a similar project - do you know what model relay you used?

Re: On Meritocracy

kev — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:00:16 -0000

The ideals espoused by heatsynclabs are great, but the execution isn't there yet. HSL has more the dynamic of radio club enthusiasts rather than an inventors lab, fun, but not innovative. If HSL were open 24 hours and had much better instruction, it would be a big step in the right direction. HSL does have the rare and valuable quality of an absence of negative criticality which most groups have. I have been checking out some local facilities, idea squared et al but will probably have to take a trip to silicon valley to find something revolutionary.

Artifacts I've made in the past few weeks:
food replacement bars (may help fix many health problems people have, on the third formula, ideally formulated for individuals daily.
TODO: find consistent, high nutrient food sources)

robo circuits (easy to assemble electronic components that allow my 3 year old to make a robot in 5 minutes that usually takes 2 hours for an experienced adult:
TODO: find or make smaller and stronger connectors)

root magnets (vocabulary refrigerator magnets that allow people to create cool "new" words e.g. astrophage, megaped:
TODO: add a picture to each root so preliterate children can create words)

Re: Monitoring Remote Hosts with Nagios

florian — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 04:11:22 -0000

you define hda1 and sda1 - :)

Re: On Meritocracy

wilbr — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:23:58 -0000

Funny you should ask, Kevin -- www.heatsynclabs.org :)

Re: On Meritocracy

kev — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:14:55 -0000

IMO, you are mistaken
combine these two things:
1) Facilitated, open paths to skill acquisition, development, and cognitive growth.
2) An environment where anyone can create things/stuff that others can build upon (this obviously means 24 hours access to lots of tools).

and you will have the potential for exponential growth and a results based meritocratic society.

Neither of the two things above exist in the world at this time.

If you think you have found a possible example of the above, let me know and I'll give you $100 if you are correct (btw I gave $3,500 two months ago to someone that lost more weight than me); in addition, I will travel to said site and test it out.

Sorry to say it, but the number of advanced humans is to sparse for such an environment to exist at this time. I hope to be proven wrong someday.

kevin7314@gmail

Re: Monitoring Remote Hosts with Nagios

matze — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:55:20 -0000

Hi i always get this error in my web-frontent: (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)

Remoteserver is a debian 7 server Nagios-server is a ubuntu 13 server.

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

Julián — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:39:34 -0000

Awesome! Thank you very much!

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

laucardoso — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:02:24 -0000

You just saved my night!!

Re: Sniffing RS232 to Control an LED Sign with Arduino

wilbr — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:41:58 -0000

Again, no idea. This blog post is intended to help you experiment on your own, every sign and project is going to be slightly different.

Re: Sniffing RS232 to Control an LED Sign with Arduino

Sir.Prof.Dr.O. — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:47:18 -0000

First of all, thank you for your prompt reply. The main reason I have contacted you is because of the post below and my lack of knowledge. I was also wondering if it would be less expensive to build a matrix with the minimum size of 16 in. x 36+ in. please. There is a hackerspace around me and I will reach out to them when my schedule permits. Thank you again.

Re: Sniffing RS232 to Control an LED Sign with Arduino

wilbr — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:06:04 -0000

Hi there! I have no idea! What kind of interface does it have for controlling the message? This blog post is about hacking into an rs232 interface, but every sign is going to be slightly different. Do you have a hackerspace near you? www.hackerspaces.org

Re: Sniffing RS232 to Control an LED Sign with Arduino

Sir.Prof.Dr.O. — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:40:25 -0000

Mr. Bradley how can I please connect Alpha Vision 020 6415 EZ95 Red LED Sign Module 128 x 32 or a similar module to an Arduino or Raspberry pi for a scrolling message sign?

Re: Workaround for PHP Error in Ubuntu 12.04: SoapClient(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout

Thiago Melo — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:23:37 -0000

YEAAAH!!! IT WORKS! TKS A LOT MAN!