Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Flying from Boston to San Francisco right now on Virgin America. The plane is new, the entertainment system runs GNU/Linux, you can order food and drink (soft drinks free, the rest is sadly overpriced) right from the touch screen in front of you, and the wifi is rock solid and not too expensive ($12.99 with [...]

We recycled at work this week – literally over a metric ton (estimated) of old servers. This is what about two thirds of that amount looked liked:

Apologies for the low quality picture – I only had a crappy cell phone camera on hand…

I used Peter Stuge’s “ghetto” method to replace a PLCC bios chip with a socket on an asus m2a-2vm board. This board has excellent coreboot support.
The method basically consists of cutting off the legs of the PLCC chip as close to the package as possible, so as to minimize strain on the paths on the [...]