Silicon Valley Tech Life

Oculus Touch controllers — first thoughts

Initial setup and a few games

Palo Alto

Almost nobody will care, but I’ve boiled it down to several possible choices for getting to work.

If I want to drive, I need to leave Los Altos around 8:15 and take 280 N to Page Mill to Alma North. No other route will suffice.
If I want to take the train, I need to leave Los Altos no…

Strange Kerberos / sudo error

We were seeing the following error today when trying to run sudo:

sudo: kerb5: Cannot verify TGT! Possible attack!: Clock skew too great

Clocks were synchronized, so it wasn’t that, and the Internet wasn’t helpful for this…

Minecraft screenshots

One of the nightly routines I have with the kids is to play Minecraft while they eat ice cream and watch me and tell me to give carrots to the piggies. I started up our own private server with the hopes that other kids and parents might join at some point. In the meantime, here’s what…

Linux networking with DSR and the NOARP flag

Seeing something odd at work with Linux networking using DSR and wanted to share it. It has to do with the NOARP flag on an interface. It’s not affecting my work, but I try to delve into strange things in an effort to better understand. I don’t think…

Euro Truck Simulator 2

I just want to sleep.

I don’t even know where I’m going. All I know is I picked up a trailer in Verona and I’m heading west with it, wearing my Oculus Rift. And this stupid country road I’m on doesn’t have anywhere to sleep and my guy keeps yawning at me and I’m…