http://newagora.me/2012/05/12/governor-gary-johnson-i-need-to-be-in-the-national-presidential-debates-in-order-to-win-the-presidency/

I had been looking for some information on who Johnson would replace the idiot Ben Bernanke with in 2014 and coming up pretty empty.  Someone pointed me to this, in which he discusses having people apply and picking the most eligible, including Paul if he was interested.  Seems like a reasoned approach to me.

Johnson is the only reasonable candidate who will appear on the ballot in most states this year.  Both Obama and Romney will continue a pattern of the same behavior.  I believe another 4 years of Obama will be sufficient to completely run the country into the ground.  While I think Romney will move us in the same direction on the whole, I think it will be a much slower pace… maintaining the depression instead of provoking the revolt.

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[root] Mobile ODIN Pro – Android Apps on Google Play

Posted September 17, 2012 By Landis V

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro&hl=en

Might have to pick this one up at some point.  I can see it potentially being useful.

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Ethernets

Posted September 15, 2012 By Landis V

Something that periodically bugs me is the thought that there are tons of old, unmanaged, dumb switches out there that are almost available free for the taking.  I’m probably being naive, but it seems like a person should be able to take those old PHY’s and chipsets, and interface with them with a little bit of creativity.  I was thinking about that today and wanted to note a few things I had run across while looking into the subject.  What I probably really need to do is actually break down and buy a good soldering iron and start doing some tinkering, but I just haven’t had the time yet.

http://www.open-electronics.org/low-cost-ethernet-shield-with-enc28j60/
Low-cost ethernet shield for the Arduino or similar.  The claim is that these could be done for around $3.  That gets down to a cost-effective point for adding ethernet to miscellaneous devices.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Easy-Arduino-Wi-Fi-Hack/
This is a good example of why I think these things are a good idea.  It’s often cheaper to buy a whole network device than the shield or other connection alone.

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Finally built a favicon

Posted September 15, 2012 By Landis V

While I was looking at a few things while the girls were napping today, it struck me that I still have the same old default favicon I had when I initially set up my account.  So I built a new one at http://www.favicon.cc.

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http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201111/gary-johnson-republican-candidate-debate-interview

Fantastic article everyone should read about Gary Johnson.  I think his positions are largely fairly clear, but the article gives you a chance to get to know him.

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Negative Externality – Economics

Posted September 14, 2012 By Landis V

http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/negative-externality.php

Good read, pretty straightforward.  Gives a clear path beyond the subject itself to allow the student to think about the situation rather than analyze the condition of the externality.

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Arch Linux (and ownCloud) on a PogoPlug POGO-E02

Posted September 13, 2012 By Landis V

Update:  Please see my newer articles about getting Debian running on the E02’s as well as a functional ownCloud instance.

PogoPlug hardware seems to be notoriously mislabeled as to the version it is running.  My experience was no exception. I ordered a POGO-P21, the label on the box showed it was a P21, but the label on the foot of the device shows that it’s the Kirkwood-based E02.  A good hint to this is the following output from ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ when SSH’ed to the device while running the native Pogo software (credit to the thread at http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2133 for this information):

Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 1192.75

Get your basic Arch environment installed using the instructions at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray for the E02 version.  For other models, you’re on your own.  For my E02, I was operational in the Arch environment after following these steps and rebooting.

Next steps are as follows (currently incomplete, but a good start):

#Update your base system
pacman -Syu

#Install Apache 2.2
pacman -S extra/apache

#Install PHP (I think this will include several of the required modules for ownCloud, as commented below)
pacman -S extra/php

# Confirm installation of php-json later using:
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/php_json.h
# php /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so
# Add “extension=json.so” to /etc/php/php.ini
# per http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=7928
# May be same for PHP XML per http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/php/files/
# ^ also mbstring
# ^ and gd
# ^ perhaps zip.so, but under modules.
pacman -S curl
# Say “y” to install
# php5-curl as usr/lib/php/modules/curl.so?
wget http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
mv owncloud /srv/http/

Right now, I have a working HTTP server, but that’s all I have the time for this evening.  PHP is not yet operational, permissions are not yet configured, and there is nothing in place to lock things down.  With a little luck I’ll have an opportunity to revisit this article and post some additional information to finalize your setup in the near future.  Good luck!

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