I've been needing to be able to remote desktop my new Ubuntu machine from the login screen and information on the net is always confusion. So here I will share my solution I ended up with. This is how you access your machine over VNC from the login screen with Ubuntu 13.10 which uses LightDM for the...

It snowed last night. I went to let the dogs out, and my smallest dog wanted in immediately after I let her out. As she tried to let me know by standing up, she slipped on the ice. I let her in and she ran straight for her pillow and looked at me weirdly.

Finished writing code for http://www.bsideshuntsville.org/, I basically made the Rotary Phone into a juke box which plays whatever song you choose by dialing a number. This can be extended to be two digit, 3 digit, you name it... So you can basically have infinite number of songs. In my code, I on...

Published documents for the Rotary Gecko at https://github.com/GRMrGecko/Rotary-Gecko

A look at the internals of the Rotary Phone. Way more messy than when I first got it.

Changed my mind on a design choice for the phone circuit. I'm going to hook up GPIO9 (command mode toggle) to the Arduino so that I can easily go in and out of command mode in firmware.

I'm going to need this for another firmware I'm going to write to make this phone into a Jukebox. Have my comput...