March 25, 2008

Printing Canada Post CN22 Labels

If you do alot of cross-border shipping, you no doubt have a whack of CN22 customs forms to fill-out everyday. This template should make your life just a little easier.

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March 12, 2008

DIY Antistatic wrap

Some people are more resourceful then others. I received these as a return, complete with tin-foil/aluminium-foil to fight static (or ward off mind rays?).

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March 3, 2008

Packaging and Shipping eBay Items.

This is a short tutorial on going from PayPal payment emails to packaged products.

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February 26, 2008

Markdown and flickrnotes

Markdown makes writing in Movable Type painless and flickrnotes makes embedding flickr images relatively easy, but together, they make embedding flickr images completely painless.

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September 1, 2007

Installing Windows 3.1 in VMWare

If you plan on installing Windows 3.1 or even just DOS in VMWare, you'll need a few extra things. I have prepared a floppy image containing utilities for DOS in VMWare.

It contains the following:

  • DOSIDLE.EXE - A small TSR utility that puts the processor into idle mode; without this, your VM will use 100% of the host CPU, all the time. Retreived from http://www.jradconsulting.com/download/index.html as dosidle210.zip. (c) Marton Balog and widely distributed by VMWare.
  • CDROM directory - Contains a setup application for Hitachi IDE CDROM drives, this also conveniently supports the VMWare emulated CDROM drive (and likely any other ATAPI drive).
  • PCNET directory - AMD's DOS/NDIS2 driver files for the PCNet family of network interfaces. This will come in handy if you plan to install Windows 3.x. Simply point the installer to these files.

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August 27, 2007

Via Velocity VT6122 Unstable in Linux

After much experimenting in Debian Etch and Slackware 11, with various 2.6.x kernels up to and including 2.6.22, the VT6122 gigabit ethernet chipset, combined with either the built in via_velocity driver or the via supplied velocityget driver, results in an unstable link under load.

When the network is under heavy use (copying a file over samba/netatalk counts), the following appears multiple times in syslog indicating the continual reset of the network.

Aug 27 14:31:13 Enterprise kernel: eth0: failed to detect cable link
Aug 27 14:31:16 Enterprise kernel: eth0: Link auto-negotiation speed 1000M bps full duplex

Based on this, I do not recomend the use of Velocity based cards in Linux computers.

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