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• Got TweetDeck working on Ubuntu… running the entire OS off a USB flash drive- performance is lacking! #

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I was able to install the latest Ubuntu on a 8GB USB stick drive following these simple instructions. Unfortunately, the instructions there are not complete.

After I attempted to boot into Ubuntu off the USB stick by changing the boot order (hit the F12 key at boot), I saw the Ubuntu boot menu. After selecting Ubuntu and starting it, I got this error:

“Error 17: cannot mount selected partition”

To fix this at the boot menu, edit the first line for the Ubuntu boot by pressing ‘e’, then press ‘e’ at the line “root (hd1,0)” and change it to “root (hd0,0)”. After changing the line, click ‘b’ to start the boot. It should start up Ubuntu off the USB flash drive.

To make this change permanent: After logging into Ubuntu, open a terminal and type

sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

At the bottom after the section ## End Default Options ##

Find the Ubuntu boot menu items with “root (hd1,0)”, change them all to “root (hd0,0)”

• was impressed by Palin’s performance last night. Very natural. #

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• ran into my first Google Chrome screw-up at time.com #
• Near home. - photo at http://twitxr.com/jared/updates/95147 #

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The word has gone out that there was a theft of a laptop containing the names, DOB, SSNs of 12,700 applicants to NTID and another 1,100 people at RIT. Notwithstanding the idiocy that allowed such data on a laptop in the first place, those who have applied to NTID (it doesn’t matter if you were a student or not) now have to get in touch with a major credit bureau to place a fraud alert upon your credit files.

If you go to this page at Equifax, you can fill out a simple one page form to start a 90-days fraud alert on your credit files. This was much more quick than calling them up and asking for a fraud alert. Equifax will also automatically notify the other major credit bureaus of the fraud alert so they will have it in their files too.

During the 90-days fraud alert, if there are any new accounts that are about to be opened under your name, the creditor will need to contact you first to get your permission before going ahead and setting up the account. Note that this doesn’t always happen since the law doesn’t require them to get in touch with you first but at least you’ll have a fighting chance to protect your credit files.

• Google’s Chrome excites me http://bit.ly/1ZmyUR #
• Just installed Google Chrome - very nice!!! #
• web interface to http://www.mailtrust.com accounts don’t work under Google Chrome. #
• Who cares about Palin daughter’s pregnancy?? #

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If you want to be able to ssh using a private key and passphrase into a remote server from your blackberry:

1) Install Rove Mobile SSH

2) Download Putty Key Generator puttygen.exe to your computer and run it

3) In puttygen, select SSH-2 RSA and generate a public/private key pair

4) enter key passphrase and confirm it

5) Save public key and save private key to their respective files

6) Conversions –> Export OpenSSH key and save to a file

7) Open the public key and you’ll see something like:

—- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —-
Comment: “rsa-key-20080902″
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx
—- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —-

Only copy the ‘xxxxxx’s (ignore the BEGIN/Comment/END lines) and paste into the file authorized_keys inside the .ssh directory at your home account on the server:

ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (all on one line at the end of your authorized_keys)

8) To make it easier to input the exported OpenSSH private key into Rove Mobile SSH, open the file in a text editor then copy and paste all the text into a html file on a web server.

9) On your blackberry, browse to the html file and copy all the text to the blackberry clipboard, including the BEGIN/END lines.

10) Enter Rove Mobile SSH, edit the connection settings, go to the bottom and paste the clipboard text into SSHHBW2 Private Key. You’ll need to do some minor editing to make sure that the newlines are inserted back in since they were lost duing the paste operation.

11) Don’t forget to delete the html file you put on the webserver!

• Dilly-dallying in Annapolis #

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Cochlear implants, for all of its so-called technological marvel (I personally don’t think it’s all that it’s cracked up to be), requires the patients to give in to the total destruction of their cochlear as the device is implanted inside their heads.

Lately, there have been several blogs that have pointed to an alternative in the works: a genetic therapy in development that would restore the hair cells inside the cochlear.

Currently, cochlear implantees are dependent upon their respective cochlear providers for the functional replacement of the cochlear. It’s highly doubtful that these corporations would ever be able to accurately mimic the full tonal range that a bona-fide human cochlear can provide. Instead, the implantees have to hope for better technological innovations, such as more channels to make the noise more clear to the implantees who hopefully are able to upgrade in the future.

The problem: with their cochlear effectively destroyed by the implanting operation, they will not be able to benefit from this genetic therapy which would probably restore the natural hearing sense. Did they just screw themselves royally by opting now for the implanting, instead of waiting for this genetic therapy which will probably give them what they really wanted in the first place?

• Enjoyed Les Miserables theatrical production last night. It was also superbly interpreted! #
• @JGJones The six feet distance for1080p/720p: 50 inches (127 cm) HDTV at 20/20 vision . That pretty much covers most HDTVs sold. #
• @Navarr Japanese Deaf have their own sign language that is different from ASL. Same in other countries all over the world. #

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• looking forward to a session of pain and sweat with a personal trainer first thing tomorrow morning. #
• @TweetDeck glad to hear that. I really like the app. #
• endured a session of hell with personal trainer but feel great afterward! #

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• pain in the butt to try to click on the urls inside TweetDeck… hope this is fixed in the next version. #
• Sick of all the raving about 1080p: to distinguish the difference between 1080p and 720p , you need to be sitting within 6 feet of the tv. #
• Nikon D90 is one kick-ass SLR camera! The secret? It’s also a video SLR! http://bit.ly/2DpkeU #

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• Switching to a different phone: Anyone want my Blackberry 8800? (still in perfect working condition!) email me at jnevans@gmail.com if … #
• @gervase Put some Certiain-Dri on haha! My AC was recently broken for a week before it was fixed… Not Fun! #

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• glad that the smell of smoke is finally gone after a small fire in my apt building last weekend. #
• Don’t you love it when a business messes up something and compensates you for the trouble? I get additional 30 mins to my 1 hr massage! #
• @gervase I’ll pass :-) #

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• Memory Tower at end of Olympics closing ceremony was cool to watch! http://bit.ly/3aY9BB #
• Just moved DeafRead Custom to DeafRead Dashboard. http://www.deafread.com/dashboard/custom/ #
• Keeping an eye on the blog for DNC 2008 from the deaf perspective: http://deafcampaign2008.blogspot.com #
• Going to Les Miserables at Wolf Trap! http://bit.ly/4lSkUl About time!! #
• @Scobleizer From my experience over at DeafRead, that’s a good sign. It shows people are paying attention to what you are saying or doing :) #

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