Matrix Fixes

1. Make it so I can see my factionmates as easily as my crewmates.
2. Let me button mash in an advanced combat interface
3. Let me email crewmates with materials and information
4. Put in some scripting language to make plugins.

Sure (4) is the most weird request. I just want the same thing that I have in WoW. Trackers of xp, loot, easy ways to reskin the interface, inventory at a glance, maps of the area I'm in with overlays of things (like bad guys and what they drop). There are a hundred different little UI type changes that I would like, but that's no guarantee that there are others that would like that. So, give me a language to plug in my changes and then if I call and ask for help the first thing tech support says is "Have you turned off your plugins" or "We have a signature to the server saying you are using plugins, we don't support that".

It's not too much to ask. Although, to date, WoW is the only game that has had this kick ass feature.

Oh and speaking of features, blogger arbitrarily cuts off posts after a certain character count is reached (I think it's actually line based). Not cool. Give me a popup saying that this post is longer than X lines and may be truncated. Don't just let the thing post and let me think I'm ok.

Testing

A test

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Well, whaddya know. It worked out just fine. Granted it's not something that replaces being able to make a REST call or something but still, this is pretty sweet.

Utilities

You know what I *really* need?

Some emacs loving that does blogger entries. I had something like it at one time, but it wasn't quite what I wanted (barrier to learning was a tad too esoteric). I've tried the mail-in option and that doesn't seem to work at all.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Ruby

So yeah came across this while browsing why's site. Very cool. I hadn't been put into a situation where I needed to match the same thing on multiple lines (what with the nature of directory based information). But still this is damn cool. Give a regular expression to a string#scan and get back all the matching elements.

Means I can slurp in an entire file and pick out the bits I want. Memory overhead goes down the drain, but still for quick snatch-and-grabs, that has be the coolest thing.

re = /pattern./
STDIN.readlines.join("").scan(re)

too cool.

And the addenda....

ONLamp.com: The Virtual Internship: Take Control of Your Future by Becoming an Open Source Developer: "The Virtual Internship: Take Control of Your Future by Becoming an Open Source Developer"


Oh the thing he should have added on the end: Stop making products that are simple in scope and simple in aspirations. No one wants to hear that "Well I've finished with this product" unless you follow it up with a "And I'm adding to this suite of new utilities that will also be great".

Seriously, end the open source heartache of "I've closed the doors on this project"-itis.

Yeah - politics comment

So I keep getting this email from various Christian fellows of mine saying "God Bless the United States". Frequently it goes on to request a prayer for this nation for the Almighty to bless it and keep it.

Uh, you know I have a problem with that. Prayers are often for 'please keep the status quo' or 'make people go back to the right way of doing things'. In a country that uses the most gasoline products, that doesn't sign the Kyoto treaty, that wants credits for the trees it has to make up for the coal it burns, and the policies it asks others to follow by gunpoint, I find it hard to want God, Allah, the Godhead, or whomever you subscribe to as the divine super-god to keep things the way they are.

I'd rather pray for clean air, responsible politicians, and intelligent designs by people who not only have to make the decisions but have to live with them for the next 50 years. I want politicians to pretend like they have to be the ones that back up their statements personally. I want the government to admit failures. And any failures they make they follow it up with a new solution.

Leadership isn't claiming a mandate by the people, it's going with something that when you look into the eyes of the baby you kissed 15 years ago you can honestly not have to say, inwardly, "Sorry kid."

Leadership isn't sending people to die over and over again hoping that the variation in people that do the killing will make one sacrifice the pivotal one that changes the course.

Leadership is making people forget the bad old ways of doing things in exchange for something new and better structured.

Leadership is making phone calls to people to say you are sorry for their son's death even when you aren't the leader of the armed forces and you didn't sign off on what they are doing currently. Oh, and then going and making sure that the sacrifice isn't forgotten and policies are changed. Each person counts. No life is squandered and noone in the news service or in the public can be allowed to forget it. And the you can't forget it either.

Leadership is saying something difficult, achieving the impossible, and fighting the ignorance. Do everything in the open, and do everything like it was going to be in the open and you won't have to squelch the requests for information. Publish the bad advice, the moronic policy suggestions, the underhanded offers. If everyone knows that someone wants to buy you off, and they didn't, there will be a great deal more respect for you. And the institution you embody.

The Voters may have put you in an office, but their children will pay the price of the decision. Stop letting every child inherit a world full of bad air, bad attitudes, and bad decisions.

Wishful thinking? Maybe. But the US didn't start out with a ton of special interests being the ones listened to, where people thought twice about drinking from the river, and citizens were thinking "Let's move to Canada".

Greasemonkey

Yeah so Greasemonkey is very neat. I've got a post in right now to the greasemonkey folks to see if there is some kind soul that will help me alter CSS style elements since I'm just not getting how to do it from the Dive site. It's kind of frustrating. I could take platypus to the pages that I want to have changed but that's kind of cheese.

I just know that someone will just that I blow away the CSS style and reintegrate it my way. Not really something I want to do. I'd rather just alter the two elements and get on with my life. Guess this is how some people feel with computers in general.

Granted I love the challenge of scripting greasemoneky code. Esp without any references.

Refinery count

Refinery Stats can be found by putting in each state and manually counting up.

Montana: 4 Refineries
Wyoming: 5 Refineries
Virginia: 2 Refineries

So How much does a person pay per gallon per refinery?

Montana: 2.11$/g / 4 Refineries = 0.52$/g per Refinery
Wyoming: 1.98$/g / 5 Refineries = 0.39$/g per Refinery
Virginia: 1.81$/g / 2 Refineries = 0.90$/g per Refinery

So, clearly, Virginia's low gas price isn't related to their sheer number of Refineries. And being landlocked isn't a big factor as Wyoming is as landlocked as Montana in relation to sea ports. Could another refinery make up for the difference? Probably, as it would be a drop of about (2.11/5 - 0.39) 0.03$ per gallon per refinery.

Gas Costs across the states.

Ok the 2003 average wages were (according to the National Census):

Montana: 34,375 USD
Wyoming: 41501 USD
Virginia: 52,587 USD

Given the 2.3% national growth we have the following, assuming wages grew at least as much as inflation:

Montana: 35,165 USD
Wyoming: 42,455 USD
Virginia: 53,796 USD

Now lets say that we have a family in each state that uses 10 gallons of gas per week or 520 gallons per year.

Montana will shell out 1097$ or about 3.11% of their wages per year.
Wyoming will shell out 1029$ or about 2.42% of their wages per year.
Virginia will shell out 941$ or about 1.74% of their wages per year.

Ok, yeah, looks like either a vast shortage of refineries is to blame, or being the 41st in income and yet being almost #1 in tourism helps to keep Montanan's with less in their pockets than others.

Cheap Gas

So today I was checking out Cheap Gas. It's a really neat site that combines data with google's map. The data that it uses is that of gas prices and then the locations of places.

Ok, bottom line. Montana cheapest: 2.11$/gl Viriginia: 1.81$/gl. Yeah this makes sense. I mean totally. Virginians have to drive a few miles to work each day, and the average commute in Montana is like 10-20 miles. One way.

Wyoming? $1.98. Ok, it's starting to sound like Montana is getting it in the shorts as a tourist state.

Maybe someone should do a price comparison of per capita and gas costs. I bet you dollars to donuts that Montana is having to shell out the most per gallon.

My Opera Community

Opera8 is a sweet , sweet browser. It's fast, friendly, and if you want more components it'll download them for you and install them in the background.

Oh and the skins/themes are just awesome. They are pretty and you can even overlay a color to them, making them even more personal.

Yeah definitely thinking of switching from Firefox for the majority of my surfing. The "only" thing I need to find is an adblocker with regex's for it and I'm set.

I'd suggest anyone trying it out. Disclaimer, this link gets me one step closer to a fully registered version, but if you don't want to go through that go here to their main website and download it that way.

Did I mention that this full featured, kick butt browser that's faster than snot is just 4 megabytes and can do email?

Slashdot Moderation

Slashdot Moderation, apparently is what i can do now. Maybe. It's kind of, ahem, weird that it's possible for someone like me to wield the power to stop or start a thread hither thither and yon.

Esoterica Bulk to Order

Esoterica Bulk Tobacco can be ordered at Knox Cigar. A half pound, as of this writing, was about 20$ without shipping. Spendy, but from what I've read of the reviews, it's worth every penny.

Esoterica Tobacciana - Stonehaven

An interesting blend is reviewed here. What does this have to do with tech or anything else? Nothing.

One sweet Photo Place

Image * After - currently 9985 free textures and images available. and it doesn't suck. Some of the pictures are downright neat.

How to get that perfect shave

A link from Weekend Edition - MSNBC.com that describes how to get a good shave. It seems to have worked kind of well, and I'm really excited to see what sort of manly creams and moisturizers I can go buy. Taylor's on Old Bond ST looks like it has some really neat items to use. Oh and badger hair brushes are expensive! Hua, they are spendy.

My computers

Actually more my work'scomputers. Also keep in mind that my work asked me to set this up for them to use the cycles and 'burn in' the system more.

It's weird looking for stars being stuck in a basement. Oh well.

4Dos

Ah the good old days of Fidonet. I remember spending a lot of time with the local sysops reading stuff and wanting to be that cool to have my own BBS and the network feeds that it entailed. I really think that was why I was so thrilled the first time I dialed into the Internet with a 14,400 baud modem. It was total information gluttony. Granted the 90/10 rule hadn't set in yet as much so there was a lot of *easy to find* information that I could read.

And there was 4dos on the BBS's.

4dos was a godsend. It let me do command historys and paint my prompt and all sorts of things that I do now in bash shell. It was the defacto shell I used on my old Gateway. It had everything, aliases being the nicest part of it. Man now a days I recommend people use cygwin, but 4dos will always have a place in my heart telling me not to settle for crappy shells.

Computer Loving

So got a new motherboard and some new memory. The computer was still not working. However the wife, bless her soul, mentioned that maybe I should try the old memory in the new mobo. Sure enough, it booted and stayed stable. Yay. Now I can surf again.

Oh and she got me a dvd+-r/w Sony DR710UL external. The successor to the one I have at work. And it's a sweet piece of hardware. The Nero stuff isn't that bad either, but then again I didn't really get a choice in burning software and the native stuff for Windows XP tried to think that the drive was a CD writer. The only weird thing now is that one of the cdrw drives in the machine (of which there are two) wouldn't detect or show in the items known category till I did an 'Add Software'. Very odd.

Blogging not liked by the Librarian

Slashdot | ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers

Frankly I'm not overly suprised. This is something that I've always expected to hear from the old guard. Sure there are times that blogs are complete crap, but then again when was the last time that something that you read, that was professionally made, was less than what you expected.

Fave quote:
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

I am a Moron

So I reread the gabeart section. Seems he did mention Yoko Matsugane as a pinup. I, as a skimming moron, did not read that part and just read "name" and went "== illustrator".

Oh well....

The Computer that would just not work

Replaced the motherboard last night. Then spent three hours trying to figure out why it is still resetting. The memtest came back clean, and it's almost [now] all new parts. Hooked it into another computers peripherals and power and it still reboot horribly. It's off to the last desperate measure of installing XP onto another hard drive in the machine, installing WoW and trying to get it to reboot. If it does, then the only thing left that is the same from the old computer is the video card.

And it's not a cheap one. . .

Shoe Lacing

Where else are you going to find a site on how to lace up your shoes? This site has things like Straight (European) Lacing or Shoe Shop Lacing, which was purported to be used in the early british army for lacing boots. So far the various lacings that I have read about have both talked about easy of removal to get at injured feet. *Not* something I think of when I am lacing my shoes....

*Not* An Illustrator

So I was looking at gabeart_v2.0 and he mentioned Yoko Matsugane. She is *not* an illustrator. She is a model. Remember this, if I teach you anything, be wary of illustrators when they say things like modelling curves. . .

The Tale of The Glitchy Computer

For those of you who want to check to make sure that everything is working fine on your motherboard: Memtest86 - Memory Diagnostic Page is the page for you.

So far this is what has been tried to fix my computer:
New Power Supply
New Mouse
New Keyboard
Old Keyboard reinstated
Defragged the Hard Drive
Moved the most fragemented file from harddrive C to D, defragged C, moved file back to C
Reduced mouse polling speed [slower icky mouse and when it freaked it just hung the box]
New graphics driver [end result the login screen refreshes slower]
Replaced the DirectX9.0c installation with a fresh one
Turned off the sound card [no sound, no stability]
Reduced the Memory speed from 166 to 133 [slow memory still not stable]

One of the coworkers seems to think that it's a ram power module has gone south. Reason being that the memory on the motherboard at home kept posting errors on memtest. I brought it in, and voila, no memory errors whatsoever. How cool is that?

And the reason why I went through the steps of replacing vid/directx? Well the folks at blizzard on the forums suggested those steps. Oh and then other posters would cite that turning off their sound seemed to make it better. What was going on was that my mouse on occasion in game would just start jumping all over the screen like a chinchilla on speed. And it would click along the way. I'd lose icons, target friends, camera would go all over the place. Not fun. New motherboard is at the delivery place and here is to hoping that it is delivered today.

Focus Follows Mouse

Got this from one of the coworker/mac fan/all around good guy:

> Hey,
> I am not sure if you guys have seen this... there is a hidden option to
> enable the "focus follows mouse" feature in Apple's X11:
> Q: Is there an option for no-click-to-focus for X11 applications?
> A: Yes there is a hidden option. From an xterm or terminal execute :
> defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true
> I got this tip from the following page:
> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html


Very nice. I can have my ffm back! I've so been missing it.

Yeah I'm the speshul munkey

I set up an email to send new entries to in blogger. Then I forget it. So I came back today to see what the fark it was. So what do I do. I blog instead. Yeah, the allure of a blog is pretty large.

Ruby ruby ruby

Yeah there are times that I've wondered about my sanity. I really enjoy Ruby. Now some folks would start to talk about how they think there isn't any money to made in it or how they are missing some critical library that makes it an unusable language. To the first group I say "A hacker does for love what others would not do for money" and the other group "If you have a scratch, itch it and then send us the backscratcher". This is a really neat and wacky language. Just look at Redhanded. _why is in a class all by himself, and unlike myself, actually takes time to blog each day. Maybe I should code up some gui widget in Fox which comes standard on windows installs of ruby that takes text and emails it to an address. Then I could have an autoblogger

And the neat thing about ruby is that you can write code like this:

(1..10).each {|item| puts "Ruby is neat"}

Realize though, that my leet coding skills in Ruby are like 1 month old and I'm no David Heinemeier Hansson.

I will say this, Ruby has been for me, a side effecty language. I write some code and in one line I can do three things to the current array and get back the changes I've made at the same time. It's a good thing, but some of my old professors would have a heart attack if they ever saw that code. Oh well, at least I realize this.

/rant

Parts of Deepfreeze

This is a part of the deepfreeze program. Note that I'm using diff -ru to generate the differences between the Nth snapshot and today's snapshot. The really nice thing is I account for two things both that the target is different than the current one and that the file is now unique [ie having been deleted since the Nth snapshot was taken]

open(FP,"diff -ru --brief $SOURCE $TARGET 2>/dev/null |");
open(FP2, "|(cd $TARGET ; tar jcf $DESTINATION$SCRUBBED_TARGET.$SUFFIX -T -)");

while (){
s/: /\//g;
#this is if the file that was in TARGET is different than SOURCE
if (/^Files .* and (.*) differ$/){
$tmp = $1;
$tmp =~ s/$TARGET/\./;
print FP2 $tmp,"\n";
}
#this is if the file no longer lives in SOURCE at all
if (/^Only in ($TARGET.*)\n/){
$tmp = $1;
$tmp =~ s/$TARGET/\./;
print FP2 $tmp,"\n";
}
}

Work Backups

So I wrote two backup strategies at work lately. Both seem to work rather fine, but I can see that unless I document them somehow they are going to overlap in my brain and that would be bad.

The first one is the the snapshot.rb/deepfreeze.pl/rsync strategy. In this one, we take and do a synchronization to a target disk. Then each day we rotate this snapshot and any other snapshots on disk to older directory names. So disk.2 would be moved to disk.3 and disk.4 to disk.5. Depending on how many snapshots are in the disk the last one is removed each time we rotate. This is where deepfreeze.pl comes in. He basically goes in and checks to see what is different from this snapshot and the latest snapshot and then archives those differences in a tarball [archive file] on yet another disk. This means you get all the files that have been changed since the final snapshot was taken. This is cool and lets a person go back to any day as long as you have snapshots and tarballs and get file *at that day*. [Mental note: Check deepfreeze and see how it's diffing]

The second strategy is to take a timestamp file and find all the files on a drive that are newer than that file. Then tar them all up. Simple, eh? The other neat thing is that you can change the timestamp so that it says "Back up everything since 1969" for example and get a full backup. It's really smooth and makes backing up stuff on an odd schedule really easy. Just touch the file once a week to be a week old and it'll do a weekly backup. Touch it once a month and get one, two, or even three month backups depending on the date you specify.

Yeah it's cool.

Tada!

From those wacky guys who made the Basecamp site comesTa-da. This is basically a part of the basecamp code that has been extracted out so that those of us that just want a to do list can get one really easily. And share parts of it with the world and parts of it just keep to ourselves.

How can that be bad? Answer: It can't. And from reading the author's blog it took, 500 lines of code. That's it. That's nothing. Nada, zip, zero, naught.

Some of my computer science projects took more lines of code and did a lot less work. That's just amazing.

rebecca blood :: ten tips for a better weblog

rebecca blood :: ten tips for a better weblog

Some of these tips are really spot on. Others are more of what should be common sense, but apparently is not. Such is the lot of the logger.

US right attacks SpongeBob video

BBC NEWS | Americas | US right attacks SpongeBob video

Ok, how stupid is this. Yes we can see that there is evil in the world. Yes it exists on our very doorstep. It does NOT take the form of small yellow cartoon characters waiting to seduce our children into becoming homosexuals. The evil is inside the people that think that it is. No child in their right mind thinks anything sexual about cartoon characters, unless those characters are doing something 'naughty'. Holding hands with your friends is not 'naughty'. Touch is one way we communicate friendship, caring and honesty. When I shake someone's hand it's not because I want to jump their bones, it's cause I am greeting them. I think some people need to get out and realize that if God wanted us to live apart from each other, we'd be predators like tigers.

SVG Weather Center - Tom Groves.net

SVG Weather Center is a place that takes the XML data that is being put out be the weather service and puts it into svg's. It's a neat concept and in the future could let us do things like weather movies from xml data....

Ruby vs Perl

So this is the current dilemma I am having. There is this great language Perl and this other language Ruby. Some people have said that Ruby is a better Perl than perl. I'm not overly convinced. There are too many times that I'm looking at a project that I'm thinking about and I see that I can do it in Perl with a few modules and a little elbow grease.

Then I look at ruby.

Ruby has elegance. It has style and taste. Just not many modules. So I start to try and decide what to write. The only problem is that I tend to think that less code is better. Maybe it's a learning curve issue. The other conundrum is that I really want to take this app into Rails. It would really handy in terms of creation and shoot, things like BaseCamp were written in ruby. It's responsive and looks just all sorts of fast. Now with that said, maybe I'll just have to clamp down and write some stuff in ruby.

Lol

Slashdot | Switching to Contracting?

Slashdot | Switching to Contracting?

Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users

Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users

Ruby Pipes....

Google Groups: View Thread "Bidirectional named pipes on Linux"

Or more correctly named "how to maybe get a fifo working in ruby without killing your brain"

Wikipedia:Wiki Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia:Wiki Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For you crazy kids out there.....

RubyForge: Project Info- Hobix

RubyForge: Project Info- Hobix

I might have already posted this, but the guy that did the project is just plain wacky. And I like wacky.

ConceptNet

ConceptNet is a neat ass idea for AI. Let you infer given a few sets of phrases that they are asking about 'topic'. Now that is intelligent.

I might have to send this to my brother.

Fonzie

Fonzie was someone I always wanted to be. Now I'm not sure why, other than his method of debugging a jukebox. That would be priceless in my line of work.

Second Life and Peter Pan

New World Notes: AND STRAIGHT ON 'TIL MORNING

No I don't know if this will stay up after next week. Yes it looks like it rocks. I want it mommy. I want it bad. Oh well.

Some things are best left desired, for the mind shall clothe that which reality leaves naked. -Me

Donovan's - The best VGA Planets information site around

Donovan's - The best VGA Planets information site around

Novermber 8, 2004 Aurora

Novermber 8, 2004 Aurora

Gaim Filesharing Plugin

These folks are trying to scrape some cash together to get a P2P filesharing plugin for gaim up and running. Which would be awesome if it used some crypto. Then at leastwhen I go to share with my family some picture of my son I can cringe less knowing that the RIAA/MPAA are just champing at the bit to sue the people that support them.

Wow, this is a real book.

Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies

Yeah it's a real book. No, I have no idea what possessed someone to write it, but maybe it's a good thing that Hasbro bought out D&D. I wouldn't have thought that something this *mainstream* would be published any other way.

TripleA :: Strategy Engine Framework

TripleA :: Strategy Engine Framework for Axis and Allies. Too neat the idea that you can play this classic game.

read4me

Welcome to read4me project page a program that can read a bunch of RSS feeds for you and then make mathematical guesses as to which ones would be interesting for you. I am so thinking of putting this up somewhere. It's a sweet idea.

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - High Performance Computing on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - High Performance Computing on Gentoo Linux

What's going to happen to the project ? - Starbase Delta Forums

What's going to happen to the project ? - Starbase Delta Forums

UGO.com Games - The History of Contra Super Feature

UGO.com Games - The History of Contra Super Feature

Buycostumes -- Lady Renaissance Adult Costume

Buycostumes -- Lady Renaissance Adult Costume mmmm Costumes aaaaaah

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - 2004.3 Release Information

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - 2004.3 Release Information

Not much else to say about this. This is one of the distros that I am thinking of going with for the new cluster here at work. Granted I have never hated a piece of machinery so much in my life, but eh, beggars and choosers.

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - 2004.3 Release Information

Gentoo Linux Documentation - - 2004.3 Release Information

Gentleman's Emporium :: Products::Civil War Flags

Gentleman's Emporium :: Products It's a site that caters to the old school in all of us. And the interesting thing is that I found this off of del.icio.us a neat social bookmarking site. Yeah you need to go look at this site. It's a cornucopia of interesting things. And my bookmarks are here.

The 20' By 20' Room

The 20' By 20' Room a blog about roleplaying.

The American Street � The Rise of Pseudo Fascism

The American Street � The Rise of Pseudo Fascism

Netcraft What's That Site Running Results

Netcraft What's That Site Running Results

IN case this ever gets erased, Microsoft is trying to launch a search engine that will rival google. With that said a few weeks ago, Balmer sent out this message saying "Linux is spendy, and Windows isn't as spendy." And then the company goes and uses Linux for their server.

IRONY. Kind of like picking a bug for a mascot....

Joe Straitiff: The Man!

joestraitiff: So I'm posting under my real name -- you


Basically EA is the devil. I would never ever work in an environment that showed such blatent disregard for the family [which is why a person works in the first bloddy place]. Anyone that chooses family over work gets an A in my book.

ea_spouse or "Hell no I'm not working for EA"

ea_spouse Read this persons blog entry here.... 5s overview: EA feels it's appropriate to bill 85 hrs/week to a person, yet none of that time over 40hrs is paid, nor is it available to be banked to take time off after serious projects. Just plain sick.

begs the question

begs the question

Remember formal logic. Everything raises the question. Nothing Begs the question.

Tired

Well, I'm heading off to bed. On the bright side, I've been out of town and got some goodies. And some serious brewing equipment, like roasted barley, and mutton's Dark Malt Extract. And a smack pack of wyeast. Oh yeah, thank God for Jimmy Carter.

Yeasts at the Wyeast Labs

The One List
I've got one pack of Thames Yeast for a stout. It's a smack pack, boasting 100 Billion little yeast buggers. This should be most interesting. Granted it's not fruity yeast, but then again, stouts weren't meant to be fruity.

Tutorial - The home of Spybot-S&D!

Tutorial - The home of Spybot-S&D!

Home - The home of Spybot-S&D!

Home - The home of Spybot-S&D!

Verbum Sapiente Sat est. I *think* this is the official site. But with 2.1 million links in google, one can't be too sure.

Mental note: get antivirus software pronto.

Image Zoom Installed

Image Zoom Installed

Mozilla Firefox - Tabbed Browsing

Mozilla Firefox - Tabbed Browsing described for the ordinary Joe. Now, for those of you still using IE and it not having tabs, this is a *critical* feature. It is what keeps my sanity. Imagine a world where you don't have to keep 10 IE windows open of the various websites that you are looking at. No also imagine that the names on the tabs are informative and you don't have to search for the page you were looking at three pages back. Now that is sweet. Oh and there is (or will be soon) a undo close tab feature. I can't tell you how many times I've cursed the luck that I just closed the one coolest page and in firefox, I can get it back.

Woot!

Woot! Yeah I already blogged this. but
This speaker set was only 29.99 with 5$ s/h. that's awesome.

Mozilla Firefox - Live Bookmarks

Mozilla Firefox - Live Bookmarks

Oh yeah, live bookmarks. Check that out.....

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Release Notes

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Release Notes

For those of you with good taste in Browsers

Mozilla Update :: Extensions - List - All Extensions - Page 1

Yes, Firefox 1.0 is out. While it doesn't have *all* the items that I was looking for [like duplicate tab] I know the code is in there and well, this is going to be *the* browser.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info: FlashGot

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info: FlashGot

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info: FoxyTunes

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info: FoxyTunes

Ok, I can now control my iTunes while I'm browsing? Hot damn!

Dietrich Ayala | Foxylicious - Firefox and del.icio.us bookmark integration

Dietrich Ayala | Foxylicious - Firefox and del.icio.us bookmark integration

del.icio.us

del.icio.us And with foxylicious this is a winning combination!

Woot!

Woot!
Woot Site

Gadgets, cheap. Granted it's only one at a time.

RAA - podcatcher

RAA - podcatcher Podcasts? I'm not sure what they are. but I thought it was related to IPodding. Probably wrong.

Google Groups: View Thread "a game like Stars!"

Google Groups: View Thread "a game like Stars!"

Google Search: rec.games.computer.stars

Google Search: rec.games.computer.stars

Freestars, a Stars! clone

Freestars, a Stars! clone

Thousand Parsec:News

Thousand Parsec:News Saw this on the Stars newsgroup. Seems it's a open source work-alike. INteresting.

The Stars! FAQ - File Info

The Stars! FAQ - File Info

Stars! AutoHost KN-2050 Central Computer

Stars! AutoHost KN-2050 Central Computer

Aside from the demo of Stars, there was apparently a hint that led me to a site I think is selling stars. It's the company Empire Interactive. Granted their buzzline for the game doesn't sound like Stars! but the images look simular, and it's under strategy as well.

Hm. Here is the link to the store.

Google Search: rec.games.computer.stars

Google Search: rec.games.computer.stars

Hm, yeah, it's spam. But I think I'm interested. Of course I could be a sucker.

Awesome mini's

Daring Adventurers!
I have to say this is awesome. No where else have I heard being able to buy a mini of Sir Richard Francis Burton. That by itself is the best thing I've ever heard.

And suprise suprise it appears that the wife's 'i' key has died. :(

The Stars! Directory

The Stars! Directory Ah the good olde days might be coming back....

Konfabulator - Downloads

Konfabulator - Downloads

Already blogged this once, but now I have a link for the windows and the mac clients. Might have to see if they have a weather widget for home....

Index [Wills' Projects]

Franki/EarlGreyLinux. It's odd and one floppy only, but then again, that's a good thing in a lot of ways. And fwiw, a person, I think, can write a floppy to an iso and have the ElTorito use it as too boot up...

WYAE - MoSSHe - Lightweight, secure server monitoring

WYAE - MoSSHe - Lightweight, secure server monitoring

Frozen Tuxy

Software Suspend for Linux will allow me to suspend a session to disk. Which, as I might point out now, is the *only* thing that Windows does better than linux in the long term. I really like being able to stop what I am doing, power down, go home, and power up and see the session as it was. And that just hasn't happened for me yet on linux.

GNOME War Pad Site

GNOME War Pad Site

Ah VGA planets. How I remember ye. I'd on many occasion rig up a set of robot opponents and then proceed to try and conquer the galaxy. 'The Borg'-like group was my favourite, but then again I played with anything and anyone. Turns back then were painful to turn in, requiring someone who had a BBS and the appropriate BBS door. Nowadays I suspect turning turns in is a lot easier. And shoot, with the robot opponents I just played solo. And I registered as well :)

Course I also registered and played Stars! but I don't know if that is still even around.

ONLamp.com: OpenBSD 3.6 Live

ONLamp.com: OpenBSD 3.6 Live

Ok, so the major thing of note is ssh multiplexing sessions. That's sweet as buttermilk.

Just when you thought things couldn't get geekier......

Source Wars: Week 23

Schneier.com

Crypto-gram by Bruce Schneier. I really wish my work could get him to come and talk about something sciency, if nothing else than to thank him for his book, which helped immensely in my graduate studies and kept things in perspective, at least from a theoretical standpoint.

OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community

OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community That's all I've got to say about that.

OpenBGPD

OpenBGPD might allow me to make my new firewall be more of a router and less of a computer. Hm. Might be something interesting to say the least. . .

[ale] and today's paranoid Linux hack is....

[ale] and today's paranoid Linux hack is....

Oh yeah. This is the neatest hack ever. An encrypted swap space with a random password. That is serious neatness. It is cheese, but then again, it also means that people aren't going to get your swap info. And trust me, it's scary.

Xbox DVD repair

Xbox DVD repair

Gah. I might have to do this :(