Hm, some people really want me to do this at my work. I like AG myself, but eh, someone out there might know something better.
Tweets
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Futurama in a header
For those of you fortunate to have something unix-y:
lynx -dump -head http://slashdot.org | grep "\(X-Fry\|X-Bender\)"
Now *that's* funny.
lynx -dump -head http://slashdot.org | grep "\(X-Fry\|X-Bender\)"
Now *that's* funny.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Formatting and Hello
Zelda the Return
Here are some hard core folks. I mean super hard core. And they are into zelda. Well not so much the original game but taking the concepts of the character and making new legend of zeldas in the old NES sense of the word. It's just too cool. You know, I'm not really sure where I got this link from but it could have been Slashdot. A lot of the neat things I find there tend to make their way to this blog.
Yet another linux
You know, one would think that people would get sick of seeing new linux's all the time. Not me. Ubuntu is just one sort of linux. It's Debian related so it's got that apt-get funkiness. Anything that comes with apt-get or yum by default is a-ok in my opinion. Well, it's not gentoo's portage, but there are so few perfect package managers out there. I *love* portage.
Opera
Normally I pimp Mozilla and FireFox. The thing is that they have stopped being able to be compiled for my machine at work. So I've started using Opera. It's pretty straightforward and much smaller than I would have though given that it does come with an email and irc client as well as a browser. It was under 3.8 MB and that's tiny even when compared to FireFox. Neat neat stuff.
Dice Pouches
This is a kick ass site. They sell custom made dice pouches. And they are not just for dice either. You can get them for cards as well. That was a neat ass idea.
Links that Are Important
Well they are to me at least. WHenever you change your template on Blogger you lose that link section, esp if it doesn't exist in the new section. They just haven't been able to figure out how to parse the important parts out of a tinkered page. Can't say I blame them, esp with html.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Friday, October 01, 2004
Apple Stickers
Apple Stickers! For the geek that wants it all. Now if only someone would get me Thom's kick ass Ganesh sticker.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
fwknop
This is a neat program that unlike some of the others doesn't require a seperate capture library. Instead it reads iptable log files and then can also do AES encrypted knocks or passive OS fingerprinting to insure that if a windows machine does a knock, it may or may not get in. It can be found here
FreeBSD release schedule
Ok the one that was put on the original FreeBSD release site was wrong. So for those of us that want to know when 5.3 final will be released here is the schedule. Not that it appears that a lot is going to change between now and when it's Finallized. But still.
Ruby on KDE
Farscape Super Airing
Yes, every single episode will be aired on the Sci-Fi channel. Announcement can be found here on a Sci-fi fan site. WHich inicidentally is where I get a lot of my nerd information.
Now *that's* a mushroom
Link Needless to say I wonder how long before someone tries to pollute it or kill it off.
Bitter? Yes. Far off? No.
Bitter? Yes. Far off? No.
Friday, September 24, 2004
Now that's a T-Shirt
Normally I don't do politics. Especially on a tech blog. But you know, civics being what they are these days, it always fun to at least poke fun. Oh and you can Buy it here.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Pictures
Here are some pictures of Colin, my brothers second baby. Both the touched up and the old blue pictures can be found there. Kind of nice to see that there isn't a new smurf in the family.
Oh and there are some background pictures here. All the abstract ones were made by myself, and are built to be tilleable. GIMP is your friend. Warning: Those pictures can be pretty large.
Oh and there are some background pictures here. All the abstract ones were made by myself, and are built to be tilleable. GIMP is your friend. Warning: Those pictures can be pretty large.
Friday, September 17, 2004
ZFS
Oh please, oh please let this be opensourced. I have asked for a lot in my life, but this is just too damn cool. Link
The nice thing is that an admin can add to the pool hither thither and yon. And not have to change anything for the end users. Also there isn't a /usr partition anymore. It's just another directory on the drive and as such can go "over limit". Man I would love to have this for work, so that when someone fills out the entire disk, we are all universally screwed until I flip on the hard drive adder switch....
The nice thing is that an admin can add to the pool hither thither and yon. And not have to change anything for the end users. Also there isn't a /usr partition anymore. It's just another directory on the drive and as such can go "over limit". Man I would love to have this for work, so that when someone fills out the entire disk, we are all universally screwed until I flip on the hard drive adder switch....
Libre Clipart
"Open Source" Clipart Link
It's a good idea to check on things like freedesktop. This is the site for newer and neater ideas in desktops. Oh and Gnome 2.8 was released yesterdayish. And it looks pretty sweet. It has the Hardware Abstraction Layer integrated into it, so that when you plug in a usb drive or a cdrom it can insert the proper modules, or even start an application. Yeah yeah, Mac's already do this but it's nice to see that there is movement forward on a front that doesn't always require money to get the job done.
It's a good idea to check on things like freedesktop. This is the site for newer and neater ideas in desktops. Oh and Gnome 2.8 was released yesterdayish. And it looks pretty sweet. It has the Hardware Abstraction Layer integrated into it, so that when you plug in a usb drive or a cdrom it can insert the proper modules, or even start an application. Yeah yeah, Mac's already do this but it's nice to see that there is movement forward on a front that doesn't always require money to get the job done.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Irish folklore
Oh it's not tech, but it's still cool. All of the tales of the ancestors [well not even close but still a good set of highlight I had never heard of].
Oh and it's neat to hear that the spears were gained by the Druids because they said they would besmirch Cuchulains name, the name of his County and the name of His kin. Just awesome.
Oh and it's neat to hear that the spears were gained by the Druids because they said they would besmirch Cuchulains name, the name of his County and the name of His kin. Just awesome.
Friday, September 03, 2004
Music in Perl
Ok, so this is one programmers way of interfacing perl into another program to make some music. It's a damn shame that the guy didn't post any of his work though. I would have really really liked to have heard what this was able to do. Also set the bar so that i could hit my head on it as I try and jump over it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
GFS && Coral
Two interesting Ideas: GFS, is a gmailFS which is a neat idea, but still something that I think violates a person's agreement with google [since I don't see any way it couldn't spider]. A link is here.
The other thing, is that there is this new, in beta, P2P network called Coral . The whole idea is to cache various webpages so that a person never has to a) suffer a slashdot effect b)not be able to find a site. As someone pointed out, it doesn't handle dynamic content so well, but as most of the stuff that I read isn't dyn-generated, I don't care.
Oh and be on the lookout for bookmarklets both the ones listed here and in general. I've got a feeling that this could be something that's going to catch fire.
The other thing, is that there is this new, in beta, P2P network called Coral . The whole idea is to cache various webpages so that a person never has to a) suffer a slashdot effect b)not be able to find a site. As someone pointed out, it doesn't handle dynamic content so well, but as most of the stuff that I read isn't dyn-generated, I don't care.
Oh and be on the lookout for bookmarklets both the ones listed here and in general. I've got a feeling that this could be something that's going to catch fire.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Finally! A system for converting old English money
Here is a listing of the old english currency before they changed to the decimal system in the 70's! Wacky Brits. God Bless em all.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Ruby Gems Intro
This is important! If you don't read this and then go ahead with trying something like ruby_servlet.rb from RubLog you'll get all sorts of indecipherable errors. [Well actually the -I imperative works as well, but if you wanted to create a new program from the newly acquired gem, you'll be S.O.L]
Rdoc Markup
Ok, this is a link to the RDoc specification . While it isn't all that important to anyone not using the ruby, it's something that I appreciate having. And it's a neat markup language spec in some ways. Neat in that it's simple, easy to mneumonically remember various markup tags, and easy for a human to read. Generally I find that most of the markups tend to only get two of those points right.
The original Starting page
This was the original page that I started looking at yesterday when I was starting to get sort of serious about learning Ruby. Yeah it's neat. And it has tons of jump points for a person to go galavanting off into the ether and learn all sorts of new things about this language.
Jabber and Ruby
Oh it's getting neat in here. This is an interface library that lets a person talk to jabber servers via the Ruby language. While some people might not think that this is all that cool, imagine a world where each of your computers has a little personality sitting in it waiting your commands or telling you when something "odd" has happened. And all you need to do is have another client listening to a jabber server. Oh, and the other neat thing is that jabber allows for a person to have transports. What's a transport? Well it's a way for a message sent to a jabber server to be translated into another Instant messenger protocol. So a person can just sign into their jabber server and then be able to send a message to someone using ICQ or AIM. How neat is that?
Rublog and it's fun
So the drawback. UsingRubLog.rdoc isn't included in the gem. So imagine my suprise when I got the ruby_servlet.rb up and running (using
ruby -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rublog-0.8.0 rublog_servlet.rb
) and it wouldn't show a new page. Nothing. Nada. Zip. The Big Nought. Well, it showed the sidebar and a search box. Which was cool. But I had read that the UsingRubLog.rdoc was integral to an understanding of the package [ie it had more to show and talk about, like a man page].
Turns out rublog requires a data directory in whatever you run it as [so I mkdir'ed a dir code/Rublog and in there mkdir'ed data/Rublog/]. From there I went here and downloaded the rdoc. Put it in, started up the webrick server and it just ran. Got a really nice picture and a rendered page. Too cool.
ruby -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rublog-0.8.0 rublog_servlet.rb
) and it wouldn't show a new page. Nothing. Nada. Zip. The Big Nought. Well, it showed the sidebar and a search box. Which was cool. But I had read that the UsingRubLog.rdoc was integral to an understanding of the package [ie it had more to show and talk about, like a man page].
Turns out rublog requires a data directory in whatever you run it as [so I mkdir'ed a dir code/Rublog and in there mkdir'ed data/Rublog/]. From there I went here and downloaded the rdoc. Put it in, started up the webrick server and it just ran. Got a really nice picture and a rendered page. Too cool.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Genius!
So I'm trying to learn Ruby. A neat language in and of itself, and it has a new paradigm, which I'm always in the mood to learn. In fact it has been keeping me up till 1:00am several times this week alone trying to learn the ways of the samurai.
One such tidbit is listed here. It's how to start your own web server in a line of Ruby. I remember Chad Fowler [blog] had this in his talk of rublog. Neat. Now if I can just figure out how he tied webrick and the rublog together and I'll be one step closer to getting one of my projects finished. Oh and it's a personal project, nothing that has to do with sysadmin. Thank God.
Oh one more book to recommend: The Poignant Guide to Ruby It's a intro to programming in general and a lovely description of various things of the ruby language. if they haven't already the Pragmatic guys *really* *really* need to get this author on board. His style is wacky and out there, but I tend to read it and really get what he's trying to tell me. And it's neat when that happens so easily. Oh and Ruby has regular expressions of the form of perl. yay. No re.compile('\s') for me!
One such tidbit is listed here. It's how to start your own web server in a line of Ruby. I remember Chad Fowler [blog] had this in his talk of rublog. Neat. Now if I can just figure out how he tied webrick and the rublog together and I'll be one step closer to getting one of my projects finished. Oh and it's a personal project, nothing that has to do with sysadmin. Thank God.
Oh one more book to recommend: The Poignant Guide to Ruby It's a intro to programming in general and a lovely description of various things of the ruby language. if they haven't already the Pragmatic guys *really* *really* need to get this author on board. His style is wacky and out there, but I tend to read it and really get what he's trying to tell me. And it's neat when that happens so easily. Oh and Ruby has regular expressions of the form of perl. yay. No re.compile('\s') for me!
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Network Console of Doom
Well not really The idea is so that when your machine dies a horrible deatth you can see/hear it's last gasps for all posterity. Neat idea. Wonder if 2.4 kernels used the same syntax....
Monday, August 09, 2004
Caffeine vs Theobromine
So, someone tell you that caffeine is in chocolate? Well not naturally then. It's called theobromine. And the reason why it's bad for certain animals? They can't metabolize it very quickly, if at all, so it just sits in their system taking up real estate and possibly to toxic levels.
Newton, Newton, Newton!
The project for Newton's work can be found here. It is some page/idea and it's interesting to find out that the great man who brought/refusted to co-claim calculus to the masses also did other things like talk about religion and alchemy. I had always read about this other side of Newton but I had thought that this was something that was rather, ahem, made up. Oh well, at least the fiction of it all is just as real as th reality. Now let's just hope that the "calculus of angels" part isn't actually made into reality.
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Firefox Tweaks
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Today's Link RoundUP
Multiple Desktops for Mac
Ktunes, itunes browser for linux!
Pirates Civ-like game for 16th century piracy
Ktunes, itunes browser for linux!
Pirates Civ-like game for 16th century piracy
Firefox/mozilla tips
Outfox Firefox or how to better search by just typing in your address bar your search terms.
Granted it doesn't really matter when you have the google bar, but some folks don't know about the other tip
in this article, that of keywords. Being able to type yahoo blah blah and have it go to yahoo search and search for terms blah blah is really handy.
Granted it doesn't really matter when you have the google bar, but some folks don't know about the other tip
in this article, that of keywords. Being able to type yahoo blah blah and have it go to yahoo search and search for terms blah blah is really handy.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Procmail tips galore
Monday, June 28, 2004
djbdns
It's a nice caching nameserver. Couple with some decent ideas when it comes to the server side of security.
Oh and I'm calculating how big I need my cache. Kind of odd, one would think that you'd say "24 hours" and the cache would grow or shrink based on 1hour windows.
Cache Size article here
Oh and I'm calculating how big I need my cache. Kind of odd, one would think that you'd say "24 hours" and the cache would grow or shrink based on 1hour windows.
Cache Size article here
Another Filesystem
And this one is cool! The overall idea of gfs is to make something that not only
replaces NFS but is imminently vertically scalabe. And the nice thing is that if your server goes down and it's on a redundant share,
the network can reroute packets to a new machine that will server the *exact* same files. No downtime, no appreciable sync times.
Sweet. Oh and here is their GPL Press Release.
replaces NFS but is imminently vertically scalabe. And the nice thing is that if your server goes down and it's on a redundant share,
the network can reroute packets to a new machine that will server the *exact* same files. No downtime, no appreciable sync times.
Sweet. Oh and here is their GPL Press Release.
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Ok Another Cheesy Personality Test
I just put this here, since well they were kind of an "Engineers for Evil" group.

You are Devastator. You are incredibly big and
incredibly strong because you are actually 6
Decepticons combined. You do as your told and
your main purpose is to build whatever Megatron
commands you to. You are the very first Gestalt
bot.
Quote: Thinking and winning do not
mix.
Which Generation 1 Decepticon Are You?
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You are Devastator. You are incredibly big and
incredibly strong because you are actually 6
Decepticons combined. You do as your told and
your main purpose is to build whatever Megatron
commands you to. You are the very first Gestalt
bot.
Quote: Thinking and winning do not
mix.
Which Generation 1 Decepticon Are You?
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Friday, June 25, 2004
Differences Between 3.0 and 3.5 in D&D
Ok, so it isn't tech but the differences in the change over were important to know.
And this is something that some tech folk are: gamers.
And this is something that some tech folk are: gamers.
Google Beta Groups
Now this is a handy interface to see the newsgroups. I don't know for sure but I think I could make my own newsgroup for things like local hobby clubs. Neat.
Find it here
Find it here
Life Out There
Join the new setiathome. And it's so much cooler in a lot of ways in terms of the underlying structure of the program. And at last, now you too can get the source and compile it to work on your own machine [or have it call multiple processors or some such on a HPC grid].
Fun!
Fun!
RubyX
Rubyx is a linux configuration program and iso roller and a distrobution all in one. It sounds kind of scary at first, esp since they do away with the init.d, which most other distro's use to get the normal programs up and running. But heck, it sounds like it's a really good idea in some ways. I just wonder if they do some form of ruby-sh as the login shell as well.
Encap packages
There are some folks that have made some encap package sites available here.
Neat stuff. What I like about this extra utility is the idea that I don't have worry if I'm using redhat on one box or suse, it's never really effected by what I have in /usr/local/bin/ and that'll be where the new binaries of recent stuff will go.
Neat.
Neat stuff. What I like about this extra utility is the idea that I don't have worry if I'm using redhat on one box or suse, it's never really effected by what I have in /usr/local/bin/ and that'll be where the new binaries of recent stuff will go.
Neat.
Source Management in Linux/Unix-like OS"s
idea for a source package manager.
Granted there is a another package called encap and also another one from the GNU buddies called stow.
For those of you who don't know, this is one of the plagues I suffer from daily. A package is out with a new version that I really need or want to test. However my OS bundle (SuSE) tends towards a wonderful obsoletism that while stable means that I don't get a version within 4 release cycles of a current version.
So I hit the source and compile it. You'd think that this wans't a bad thing, but after a while I have three or four versions of libraries running around in weird spots trying to get it all to work for one install.
Not fun.
These tools would let me sidestep most of this, or I could just convince everyone at work to go to Gentoo.
Granted there is a another package called encap and also another one from the GNU buddies called stow.
For those of you who don't know, this is one of the plagues I suffer from daily. A package is out with a new version that I really need or want to test. However my OS bundle (SuSE) tends towards a wonderful obsoletism that while stable means that I don't get a version within 4 release cycles of a current version.
So I hit the source and compile it. You'd think that this wans't a bad thing, but after a while I have three or four versions of libraries running around in weird spots trying to get it all to work for one install.
Not fun.
These tools would let me sidestep most of this, or I could just convince everyone at work to go to Gentoo.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
New Interfaces
You know, I'm as supple and moveable as the next guy. But I really hate the 'change your UI' without some form of beta test offer. It's just plain silly.
Case in point. Yahoo when it was going to the new mail interface (2 yrs+ ago) they offered anyone the option to try it out. Then when i changed over, you were more likely to be prepared for it. Generally here I don't get those offers. Although being a poor blogger at times, I can understand why.
Case in point. Yahoo when it was going to the new mail interface (2 yrs+ ago) they offered anyone the option to try it out. Then when i changed over, you were more likely to be prepared for it. Generally here I don't get those offers. Although being a poor blogger at times, I can understand why.
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Mutt Love
Please be aware of SASSER!
Mutt themes can be found here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/configs/dot-mutt/themes
Mutt themes can be found here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/configs/dot-mutt/themes
Sasser
There is a new worm out there. It doesn't require you to read an email or open a file. Just not patch your machine.
If your machine is window 2000 or windows XP, and you haven't been updating your machine, you
might very well have been compromised by W32.Sasser.
Get the removal utility here.
Also after removal you'll have to enable your Firewall on your machine in order to go online and get the updates. If you don't,
well, you'll be infected probably before you get the change to update.
If your machine is window 2000 or windows XP, and you haven't been updating your machine, you
might very well have been compromised by W32.Sasser.
Get the removal utility here.
Also after removal you'll have to enable your Firewall on your machine in order to go online and get the updates. If you don't,
well, you'll be infected probably before you get the change to update.
Monday, May 03, 2004
For those of use who want to stay on a command line for a while there is catdoc
Just put tthe following in your mailcap after you get it installed
application/msword; catdoc %s; copiousoutput
oh and it comes with an excel to csv file converter xls2csv
Just put tthe following in your mailcap after you get it installed
application/msword; catdoc %s; copiousoutput
oh and it comes with an excel to csv file converter xls2csv
Friday, April 30, 2004
Neat sounding Utility
As per their website:
TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can:
* Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc.
* Automatically change your system's sound-effect files every few minutes or every few seconds if you want!
* Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's Minimize button with your mouse
* Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
* Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
* Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them to the taskbar tray, etc.
* Lots more!
* Oh yeah, and it's free!
As per their website:
TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can:
* Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc.
* Automatically change your system's sound-effect files every few minutes or every few seconds if you want!
* Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's Minimize button with your mouse
* Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
* Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
* Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them to the taskbar tray, etc.
* Lots more!
* Oh yeah, and it's free!
Insouciance
Insouciance
Why do you need this word? Well I did when I went and read a Dawkin essay.
What does it mean? It's that feeling when you go "Eh whatever". But in a happy way.
Why do you need this word? Well I did when I went and read a Dawkin essay.
What does it mean? It's that feeling when you go "Eh whatever". But in a happy way.
DBACL and Email Categorization
DBACL homepage
"dbacl is a digramic Bayesian classifier. It can distill text documents into categories, and then compare other text documents to the learned categories."
IE, plug this into your procmailrc or use it in some classification program and voila, you can seperate out your emails into
their categories without having to sit there and read them. So, all my administrational emails can go to the Admin folder and well
my home emails can get put into the Home_Email folder.
Oh and I can learn it on english and say "Not English, pitch it.". That would be nice. Spam in another language is Still Spam.
"dbacl is a digramic Bayesian classifier. It can distill text documents into categories, and then compare other text documents to the learned categories."
IE, plug this into your procmailrc or use it in some classification program and voila, you can seperate out your emails into
their categories without having to sit there and read them. So, all my administrational emails can go to the Admin folder and well
my home emails can get put into the Home_Email folder.
Oh and I can learn it on english and say "Not English, pitch it.". That would be nice. Spam in another language is Still Spam.
Another muttrc . . .
Can be found here.
Yeah I like mutt. Who else would let you tunnel an smtp connection to a remote server through ssh?
And why is that good?
Well sometimes there are people that don't allow for connections going to the outside on port 25. IE,
you can't send email unless it's through their approved server. But most will allow you to ssh out to another
machine. And then it's the policy of that machine and their email that matters.
Yeah I like mutt. Who else would let you tunnel an smtp connection to a remote server through ssh?
And why is that good?
Well sometimes there are people that don't allow for connections going to the outside on port 25. IE,
you can't send email unless it's through their approved server. But most will allow you to ssh out to another
machine. And then it's the policy of that machine and their email that matters.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Pet Feeding via HAL
A link here
Well this is the weirdest thing. It throws up a picture on the Internet, which a user can interract with
and then tell the thing remotely to feed the animal. Hm, Whisky and Cheeto would love this.
Well this is the weirdest thing. It throws up a picture on the Internet, which a user can interract with
and then tell the thing remotely to feed the animal. Hm, Whisky and Cheeto would love this.
A better MP3 Player
Toshiba Gigabeat G20
Neat, wireless, and a much larger disk drive than a previous one I mentioned. The other thing that is of
note is that a person can get Japanese hardware sent to our shores early. . . . check the link in that link.
Too Cool. The only thing is that you have to call them and order it. And this is 599$. But still it's kind of cool.
I'll still go with something from iRiver. FM tuners and mp3 capabilities cannot be sneezed at.
Neat, wireless, and a much larger disk drive than a previous one I mentioned. The other thing that is of
note is that a person can get Japanese hardware sent to our shores early. . . . check the link in that link.
Too Cool. The only thing is that you have to call them and order it. And this is 599$. But still it's kind of cool.
I'll still go with something from iRiver. FM tuners and mp3 capabilities cannot be sneezed at.
The Web is a Vast Pit
No I've never heard of these sites, but I have learned more in the past half hour on homunculi, neural anatomy, and well computer stuff. Granted the neural items are due to an external influence. The rest was pure good ol' surfing.
Gizmodo Reviews Aggregator
DesignTechnica Reviews
MIT's Roofnet project
Wireless Community FAQ A Wireless Mesh Project
Gizmodo Reviews Aggregator
DesignTechnica Reviews
MIT's Roofnet project
Wireless Community FAQ A Wireless Mesh Project
Neat MP3 Player
One neat looking MP3 Player
The only problem is that is doesn't have an Open Source Operating System on it. Oh well.
So the big sell point is that it's wireless. So it will take and install mp3's anytime you are near your hub. Which is a neat ass idea. Granted I think the USB 2.0 speed ismuch faster than wireless 802.11B.
Technical Specifications:
Size: 2.8” x 4.5” x 0.9’
Weight: 6.8 oz
LCD Display: 128 x 64 blue LED backlit
Battery Life: 7 hours
Firmware: Upgradeable
Connectivity: USB, Wireless
The only problem is that is doesn't have an Open Source Operating System on it. Oh well.
So the big sell point is that it's wireless. So it will take and install mp3's anytime you are near your hub. Which is a neat ass idea. Granted I think the USB 2.0 speed is
Technical Specifications:
Size: 2.8” x 4.5” x 0.9’
Weight: 6.8 oz
LCD Display: 128 x 64 blue LED backlit
Battery Life: 7 hours
Firmware: Upgradeable
Connectivity: USB, Wireless
Dawkins fan-site
Got Meme?
Yeah it's an unofficial site, but still, if i knew where the real one was,
I'd put it up in a heartbeat.
Yeah it's an unofficial site, but still, if i knew where the real one was,
I'd put it up in a heartbeat.
And this is why people get Mad
So, I'm reading about the people that lobbyed for and think that the DMCA is a good idea.
Well, if you are an engineer and want to make a HDTV after 2005 you can't unless you want to
get the cops on you. Likewise for the design of DVD reading software for alternative Operating Systems.
The Interview
I think it's priceless that in this interview the MPAA people are saying things for normal users like
'perhaps buy a DVD player instead' rather than we want to expand our market any way possible, so let's get Linux on board.
Just classic. Also, the fact the engineer made a dvd-reading script so he could watch the program in 6 lines,
and showed the MPAA guy, just show moxy. The best part is the MPAA's rep's reaction.
Well, if you are an engineer and want to make a HDTV after 2005 you can't unless you want to
get the cops on you. Likewise for the design of DVD reading software for alternative Operating Systems.
The Interview
I think it's priceless that in this interview the MPAA people are saying things for normal users like
'perhaps buy a DVD player instead' rather than we want to expand our market any way possible, so let's get Linux on board.
Just classic. Also, the fact the engineer made a dvd-reading script so he could watch the program in 6 lines,
and showed the MPAA guy, just show moxy. The best part is the MPAA's rep's reaction.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
My Next PhotoAlbum
My Photo Album
Yeah, it's sparse, but you know it was a one click install. And it didn't take that long over
a modem. . . .
Did I mention that I love the mac?
Yeah, it's sparse, but you know it was a one click install. And it didn't take that long over
a modem. . . .
Did I mention that I love the mac?
Five Free Calculus Textbooks
No I haven't reviewed them, but at the same time, it's something that bears mentioning.
See the links here.
See the links here.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Onyx Orison
Here is the definition of orison.
Yeah, a Black Stone Prayer. And here I had thought it was a Black Magic. Oh well, beggars cannot be
choosers.
Yeah, a Black Stone Prayer. And here I had thought it was a Black Magic. Oh well, beggars cannot be
choosers.
Memes
What's a meme?
Ok, basic idea, a cliche is a meme. It's an idea or thought pattern that spreads from
person to person more or less like a virus. It's a neat idea in general, and has been written about in
Snow Crash. Imagine if you could create an idea so simple, so straightforward that it spread amongst everyone and effected a change.
Got it? Cool.
Now here's something that is not a popular thought. Personality tests for blogs are a meme complex. We take them,
and thinking they denote us then put it up. It then catches the eye of the people who are reading the blog and
they take it, spreading the virus. The only reason they don't spread faster is because they are reliant on someone
willingly exposing themselves through reading and having an existing context shared with you.
Granted this isn't a condemnation of these 'What X are you' tests . Being infected by a meme isn't a bad thing. Some of
our best ideas are memes. No one ever accused another person of being weak for learning and propogating E=MC^2.
Apparently some people have posited that any tool using culture has memetic complexes running around in their population.
Another interesting meme is that pipe smokers are "smart". What told us that? And how many pipe smokers have you seen lately
at the latest symposia?
If anything, a personality test, is a community strengthener between people. If you have ever taken a test and then compared
it with your friends, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Oh one other thing. I've taken this tests before and as you will see a few months back, I posted one up.
Ok, basic idea, a cliche is a meme. It's an idea or thought pattern that spreads from
person to person more or less like a virus. It's a neat idea in general, and has been written about in
Snow Crash. Imagine if you could create an idea so simple, so straightforward that it spread amongst everyone and effected a change.
Got it? Cool.
Now here's something that is not a popular thought. Personality tests for blogs are a meme complex. We take them,
and thinking they denote us then put it up. It then catches the eye of the people who are reading the blog and
they take it, spreading the virus. The only reason they don't spread faster is because they are reliant on someone
willingly exposing themselves through reading and having an existing context shared with you.
Granted this isn't a condemnation of these 'What X are you' tests . Being infected by a meme isn't a bad thing. Some of
our best ideas are memes. No one ever accused another person of being weak for learning and propogating E=MC^2.
Apparently some people have posited that any tool using culture has memetic complexes running around in their population.
Another interesting meme is that pipe smokers are "smart". What told us that? And how many pipe smokers have you seen lately
at the latest symposia?
If anything, a personality test, is a community strengthener between people. If you have ever taken a test and then compared
it with your friends, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Oh one other thing. I've taken this tests before and as you will see a few months back, I posted one up.
Ah the trap
So, I've been experimenting with the layout. I so know where this is going.
It's like graphics or gimp. Pulls a perfectionist in and makes them want to check
everything to make sure it *flows*. Before they know it, 2 hours are up and
they have a wonderful page, and not a lot of content.
Here is an alternative to slashdot. Granted some of them have an axe to
grind with slashdotters.
Back to the Grind
It's like graphics or gimp. Pulls a perfectionist in and makes them want to check
everything to make sure it *flows*. Before they know it, 2 hours are up and
they have a wonderful page, and not a lot of content.
Here is an alternative to slashdot. Granted some of them have an axe to
grind with slashdotters.
Back to the Grind
Yay Subjects!
Well, so I'm going along and noticed that I was lacking titles. That was sucky. It's hard enough to parse stuff out sometimes, with all the per day traffic I generated today at the least. Fun.
Good news/Bad News
Good news, bad news.
Good news: I've got something that works in Emacs.
Bad News: It's the only game in town. Which I still think is
odd.
Good news: I've got something that works in Emacs.
Bad News: It's the only game in town. Which I still think is
odd.
The search beyond weblogger.el
Moving on.
So, going to check and see if there is some other utility that
interfaces with emacs. weblogger works, but I wonder if there is any
simpler interfaces that a person wouldn't have to code up themselves.
So, going to check and see if there is some other utility that
interfaces with emacs. weblogger works, but I wonder if there is any
simpler interfaces that a person wouldn't have to code up themselves.
Hm, not much else is going on. Did you know that there is a site out
there with some fantastic beats?
there with some fantastic beats?
Ok, so the weblogger.el says to edit
out the pinging section and point the RPC at the correct
directory. Wackier things were never said, and I would have thought
that they would be stated in the main file, but it didn't appear
anywhere in there.
Oh well.
out the pinging section and point the RPC at the correct
directory. Wackier things were never said, and I would have thought
that they would be stated in the main file, but it didn't appear
anywhere in there.
Oh well.
My Workplace
You know, this job isn't all bad. I still don't know
any other place where they would allow you to read
tech journals and boards and let it be called research/professional development.
any other place where they would allow you to read
tech journals and boards and let it be called research/professional development.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Hm, maybe I should start using this blog for tab history....
p2p articles
Now tthat would be a cool. A tie into mozilla that when a new tab is opened and stays open for a period of time > X
it gets listed somewhere on a person's blog. A "what I'm surfing" sort of channel.
Lol.
p2p articles
Now tthat would be a cool. A tie into mozilla that when a new tab is opened and stays open for a period of time > X
it gets listed somewhere on a person's blog. A "what I'm surfing" sort of channel.
Lol.
No wonder there isn't a person around that can get ahead financially....
Financials for Belgrade and the US
Financials for Belgrade and the US
The Eco House.
Will it come to fruition for the rest of humanity? Good question. I sometimes think people are too attached to their
SUV's.
Will it come to fruition for the rest of humanity? Good question. I sometimes think people are too attached to their
SUV's.
FISH, stands for possible files over ssh. Wacky, since anon access is *bad* for most folks, regardless.
But it's great if you don't want someone else to see what you are transferring.
A little ditty on it
But it's great if you don't want someone else to see what you are transferring.
A little ditty on it
Neat. So I have this .mac account, aptly named after me. The only problem is that is costs money.
Not tons, but still, it ain'tt cheap. So, looking on the boards, I found a site that offers strong
.mac integration for a reasonable price here
Not tons, but still, it ain'tt cheap. So, looking on the boards, I found a site that offers strong
.mac integration for a reasonable price here
Doh! Need to be semi-active to get a gmail. What I need to do is get my butt in gear and use
emacs to post or sometthing. That way I don't have to grok the blogger interface.
Links:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105335&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=126&tid=95&mode=thread&cid=8965086
At least I'm not this guy.
emacs to post or sometthing. That way I don't have to grok the blogger interface.
Links:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105335&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=126&tid=95&mode=thread&cid=8965086
At least I'm not this guy.
Hm, Well, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Sometimes I have this go into my sig. Probably not do this at work's sig.
(echo 'See the Card Game @ http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/' ; lynx -dump http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/ | head -4 | perl -ne 's/^\s+//; print $_;') | perl -e 'while(<>){push (@t,$_);}print $t[1],$t[0].$t[2];'
Sometimes I have this go into my sig. Probably not do this at work's sig.
(echo 'See the Card Game @ http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/' ; lynx -dump http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/ | head -4 | perl -ne 's/^\s+//; print $_;') | perl -e 'while(<>){push (@t,$_);}print $t[1],$t[0].$t[2];'
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