I traveled to Peru over winter break and managed to scratch one of the wonders of the world off of my bucket list! We utilized Alpaca Expeditions (aka the Green Machine) to organize our 5 day hike of the Inca Trail and had an amazing experience full of awe-inspiring sights and exquisite three course cuisine. It’s pretty crazy how much the Chasquis (our porters) can carry given the altitude and then at twice the pace that we were going at. We also used Tarantula Expeditions to explore Sandoval Lake in the amazon forest near Puerto Maldonado where we saw hundreds of species of plants, insects, birds, and animals including leaf cutter ants and giant river otters. I highly recommend this if you’re a fan of animals. I’m still amazed that I saw a bunch of plants and animals that I had only previously seen on PBS. Some things I should mention to people who want to come...
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I purchased a NETGEAR Centria N900 router at a fire sale nearly a year ago. I’m happy with its functionality but was always disappointed that I wasn’t able to flash a community created firmware such as DD-WRT or Tomato onto it. Luckily, the official firmware is forked from OpenWrt and as per the GPL the sources need to be publically available. Armed with those sources, a hacker name shibby managed to create an alternative 1.0.0.52 firmware which includes the dropbear ssh server that we can use to gain root access to the router.
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I own a ASUS Z87 Pro and an Intel 4670K that I’ve overclocked to a respectable 4.4 GHz which had started exhibiting problems. I noticed a few weeks ago that the bus speed was fluctuating between 95-99 MHz by looking at it with CPU-Z. I orginally believed that this was happening due to an imminant motherboard death. In attempts to debug the problem I had: Increased input voltage to 1.9v Decreased/increase uncore multiplier Changed CPU multipliers Increased/decreased voltage Force BCLK to 100 Mhz Disabled/enabled spread spectrum RMA’d my motherboard to ASUS Oddly, the problem only exhibited itself when I was overclocked because the behavior disappeared when I reset to BIOS factory default settings. In truth, the issue was because I had Hyper-V installed on my Windows 8 machine! I discovered this after I disabled Virtualization support in the BIOS and noticed that the fluctuations stopped. After that, I uninstalled Hyper-V, re-enabled Virtualization...
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Copy and paste the following into your blog description: <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/run_prettify.js"></script> Use the following <pre/> tags in any of your Tumblr posts: <pre class="prettyprint"> Many lines of code </pre>
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I’ve recently started using a new Tumblr theme called Optica. It’s awesome, it’s minimalistic, it looks exactly like what I want it to look; but it doesn’t allow me to display Tweets. Bummer! But wait, there must be a way we can hack it in, right? We can always hack the theme’s HTML directly but then we will lose any sort of improvements that happen naturally when the author updates it. So let’s hack it in by (ab)using your blog’s description! Create a embedded-timeline widget using your Twitter account. Edit your Tumblr blog’s theme. Append a custom <div/> element to your blog’s description. For example:
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