While working as an admin you come across some unusual requests. We have a conference room at work where we’ve been requested to have a fixed-position USB webcam, but they want to locate the usb cable approx 25+ feet away. They’ve also requested not to have a lot of running cables in the room, so this means also hiding the cables away in the wall. This would also mean some kind of adapter/extension cable. Looking around online, you can buy USB extension cables (some powered), that run 50-ish feet, but they’re usually in the $40+ range. I’m cheap, so I wanted a viable alternative.
Adventures in Administration: USB Extension Cables over Cat5e Ethernet
Posted by AdamD. on 01/26/2012
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Stop Online Censorship Before It Begins.
Posted by AdamD. on 12/14/2011
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Via FightForTheFuture.org: Want a window into the minds of our opponents? Former Senator Chris Dodd — head of the Motion Picture Association of America — says that China censors its Internet, so we can too: “When the Chinese told Google …
Gnome Shell 3.2 and Multiple Monitors
Posted by Robert Hollencamp on 11/11/2011
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Gnome Shell has great support for multiple monitors; here are some of the configurable tweaks you can make to multiple monitor setups
Debugging Java Deadlocks with VisualVM
Posted by Robert Hollencamp on 11/01/2011
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Example of debugging a multi-threading deadlock in Java using VisualVM.
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