Dear lazyweb, is there a way to get a preview/screenshot of a Mii on Linux? I managed to transfer the Mii, but am unable to find a tool to give me a preview. I’m wanting to have a high quality screenshot of it.

This little editor does seem to work under Mono (wow), but I can only load, edit and save the mii, not really get a preview of how it looks. The miieditor.com seems to be killed off by Nintendo .

Update Garrett found the Mii Editor editor, but the extracted SWF file fails to open a file when run locally or hosted with apache :/.

Darn, another lazyweb question time.

I was excited to see the photos I shot today. I had my desktop running when I came home, so I quickly took out a CF2 card from the USB reader which was likely mounted on a running system (had the monitor switched off) and quickly shoved the one from the camera in. No photos, only the DCIM folder appeared as a file. Unmounted, shoved it into the camera, no content. Eeeek! The empty space shows there is data on the card. So I dd the device into a file (`dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=backup.vfat`) and begin experimenting with fsck.vfat. It gives me 4 combinations of the following choices:

dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
FATs differ but appear to be intact. Use which FAT ?
1) Use first FAT
2) Use second FAT

#and

/DCIM  and
/.Trashes
  share clusters.
1) Truncate first to 0 bytes and restart
2) Truncate second to 0 bytes

None of the combinations end up having any files. The card is 1G and surprisingly doesn’t compress with bzip at all, but I would be thankful for any suggestions on how to get the rather fab photos back. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if this happened on my New Zealand trip for example.

Update: After some more googling (should have looked at the moderated comments here for some hints I found an awesome free software recovery tool, called Photorec (packaged for opensuse even). It supports multiple filesystems and is able to recover images even on a completely hosed card or image. Man I’m so happy. PhotoRec deserves to do much better on a photo recovery linux query on google.

Dear Lazyweb,
I failed to figure out why I get no signal out of my DVI port with a DVI>DSUB dongle and a CRT attached when using Linux on my Macbook Pro. It works fine with a DVI cable, but on my CRT it’s blank. Xorg feels like everything is fine and I have a big framebuffer, my mouse is happily moving around the dead space. “Option” “WasteMoreTime” “off” didn’t seem to do the trick.

No surprise OSX works fine on that setup.

Yet another password I can’t recall. I have this noname ATA disk frame that can be hooked up to USB or serves the disk over samba/FTP. I think it’s this one, as it’s completely unlabeled (courtesy of google images — “silver ata case usb network” . At least it has a MAC address printed on it, so it was possible to figure out what IP it took after a reset.

I am, however unable to figure out the default login for the web administration. Anyone got the same beast and still has the manual?

Dear Lazyweb,
is it really impossible to reference a cell from an external spreadsheet in google spreadsheet?

No matter I did the research and found the Star SP512 receipt printer to have cups support, I can’t get it to work. Simple echo "hello world" > /dev/ttyS0" is nifty, but I’d like to be able to use more sophisticated apps .

If anybody reading this blog has experience with it and can help making the provided cups driver (particularly the PPD) actually work on a recent distro (/var/log/cups/error_log is silent, gnome-cups-manager says “** (gnome-printer-view:31912): WARNING **: model named 'Star SP500 Tear Bar' doesn't have a recognized structure” I would appreciate it.