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Description: The ramblings of a mildly crazy person
Last Update: 09:52:55 05/05/2004
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First Fetched: 00:18:34 01/31/2004
Last Updated: 09:52:55 05/05/2004
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after fighting with it for about an hour, i'm finally setup using OpenNic, the user owned and controlled DNS service. The main problem here is that their website is really out of date. So it took me a while to find a server i could transfer their zones from. For posterity, I'm going to paste my bind9 config section into the extended entry section...
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i wish to express praises to debian, libdecss, ogle, and vlc. these applications have made it simple for me to get dvd playing working on my linux box. now that i can watch dvds while working on code on my phatty new workstation, i forsee myself watching a LOT more dvds... so, also praises for netflix :)
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so, i've only found one movabletype client for *nix. this is PATHETIC. why is that i always have to write my own software? looks like i need to write POE::Component::Client::MovableType now... then a little poe + gtk and away we go. maybe... i need to get PoCo::ControlPort out there today. and prep the new versions of POE::API::Peek and PoCo::DebugShell to go out when the new poe gets released. oh yeah, POE 0.29RC1 should be hitting the mailing list shortly. yay ra :)
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I have to do something right now which I never thought possible. I have to give mad props to .... Cox Communications. Yeah, I know. You're wondering if i've stopped taking my meds and started supplanting them with crystal meth. I have not. The story goes likes this: I was bitching about Cox on irc the other day, about how the consumer intarweeb service was dhcp-only and heavily filtered. dvorak told me that Cox now had their business wing up and running and that they had a great SoHo plan. I called Cox and got the scoop. It goes a little something like this: 3.0M/256K static ip reverse dns no transfer cap no filters whatsoever 24/7 onsite support 79$/mth I'm ecstatic. I faxed back a signed 1 yr contract 10 minutes later. within 15 minutes, I had my configuration information and i reconfigured my home network from the office (ssh++). BAM, i was online. So, yes, the world is ending. I'm pleased with Cox. I have set up a web server with my source code and all that jazz on my new shiny ...
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in case you've forgotten what this war (and all the other not-wars we're currently waging) is costing us: From The Memory Hole
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I hereby present my new computer and my new computer desk. The computer is an EMachine T3085, which means its an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ with a 180G 7200 RPM drive and DVD +/- RW drive. Its name is rlyeh, which is a Lovecraft reference. Rlyeh has a 17" Viewsonic LCD Monitor attached for much eye-pleasing goodness.
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i have a new linux box. i'll post details about it later. but first... i was setting up my usb printer and got the message one is never supposed to get from printer.c: Apr 17 18:05:46 rlyeh kernel: printer.c: usblp0: on fire so, linux detected the printer. but thinks its on fire... great...
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i've been here for over a year now. i feel the need to summarize the difference between where i am now and where i was then (which is defined as 'a year into any other previous living situation / job). every other job i've had at this point felt like i was over the peak, sliding down from the pinnacle of fun speeding towards hell. this job feels like its just beginning. there are still challenges and fun things to do. i've been doing a lot of web work of late but at least its interesting web work. (the last few days i've been working on a really shiny graphing system using svg.) so yeah, i feel like i'm just getting started here. there's a future and a road to travel on.
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Today I visited Goose Creek Bridge, the site of a Civil War battle in the days just before Gettysburg. I really like this bridge and the land surrounding it. Its beautiful country side filled with farm land and animals and historical site markers.
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... about rat control in schools. at least its something tho :) The CNN Article
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thanks to a recommendation from a coworker and some play time at the apple store, i think i've settled on my next camera. The Canon PowerShot A80: 4 megapixel, full auto, full manual, attachment to take standard lens, and a 180 degree rotatable lcd. 4 AA batteries. its a very nice decently priced camera and i think it'll make a good next step.
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it appears that in early 2002, the marketing dept at microsoft quarreled internally as to the direction Microsoft Word would take. The following is the box design from the rejected "alternate path" advertising campaign.
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until MT 3.0 is released and i can get comment registration running, i have removed all comment author links. some spammers have been slipping through my defenses but at least this way, no one will ever see their urls.
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I like strange and funny news. Straight from The Bondage File, here's the latest roundup: Robbery foiled after hostage notices robber trying to jam .40 caliber bullets into a .22. Investigators are baffled as to why someone would dump a rotting cow carcass in the reserved parking space of the Culpeper, VA county planning director. Trail magazine publishes hiking trail that would lead hikers off a cliff. Man convicted of disorderly conduct after yelling at teenagers to turn down their music and get out of town. Students seek punitive damages after other students replaced mayonnaise in the school provided sandwiches with wood glue.
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does anyone else have problems with their tivo and showtime? i lose sound when shows on showtime start. makes it really hard to watch anything.
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Iain Truskett, aka Spoon, passed away on Dec 29th. Iain was a perl hacker, regular on #perl, and all around great guy. He will be missed. ... But ... what do we do about the fact that he's still logged in to irc? What's etiquette in a situation like this?
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dear verizon, i hate you. openly and without remorse or regret. your 0.15$/minute charges to china became 2$/min. you did not care. you did not see a problem with me getting 300$ phone bills every month. i have found a remedy to my problems. I am no longer your customer. As you have no doubt noticed, I have ordered the transfer of my telephone number from your control to that of Vonage. They will provide me with the services you cannot. These services include internet accessible voicemail, 0.05$/min charges to china, and multiple phone numbers in multiple localities. Best of all, they are not you. Every month, I will relish the fact that i am no longer your customer. I will delight in sending someone else my money for phone service. I will moisten myself at the thought of all the services i now have and can get for less than half of what my normal (non-china) months to you were costing. Please serve notice to your cellular division, Verizon Wireless, that come May when my contract ...
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Look ma! It's fun to play in the unnamed and foul smelling sewer gases!
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Happy Holidays to all and, to all, some good rum
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The version of the counting crows song "Big Yellow Taxi" that you desire is currently on "Films about Ghosts", a best of collection available from the itunes music store. :)
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My brother andrew is playing the piano. My mother disappeared during the wee hours of the morning to go do ... well, no one's really sure. Probably shopping. Probably church related. *shrug*. My father is working in his shop and working with the gentleman who is building the new porch on the front of the house. I am in the living room typing this and drinking coffee. Things really don't change. It's been 2 years since I was home, since I saw any member of my family for longer than dinner. Yet nothing has changed. The routines largely stay the same. Well ok, some things have changed. There is no fighting, no arguments about who left a dirty cup on the counter. I wonder sometimes if life was mostly like this when I was younger. I suppose it is possible that there only a few nights a week when the fighting and tension crossed the red line. I suppose it is possible that the explosion of those nights tainted the rest like nuclear winter. I just don't know. Everyone remembers something ...
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The flights went pretty well. The trip from Dulles to Cincinnati was amazing. We were flying into the sunset and went through some very pretty cirrus cloud layers. The clouds were thin enough that I could watch the wind push them and ripple through them. The stewardess was fun and we had a good conversation. It is always interesting to see how a simple smile and a decent attitude can improve both my experience in situations like these and the experience of the staff involved. The trip from Cincinnati to Dayton was kind of frightening. We were in a very very tiny jet that looked like a blob of silly putty with wings. Initially, my seat was all the way in the back where I could hear the crew load the luggage and supplies and things. To my right was a service station of some variety that looked like the lavatory from the space shuttle. There lots of switches and removable panels and gauges and lights and things. A young lady went to the bathroom just before takeoff and upon exiting, ...
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for those that missed it, i'm going to my parents' house in indiana for xmas/kwanza/etc. for the concerned, the interested, the stalking, my flight info is as follows: Delta #5802 from IAD to CVG (Dec 21 4:40PM - Dec 21 6:19 PM) Delta #6154 from CVG t oDAY (Dec 21 7:25PM - Dec 21 8:08PM) Delta #5755 from DAY to CVG (Dec 28 8:25AM - Dec 28 9:14AM) Delta #5800 from CVG to IAD (Dec 28 10:50AM - Dec 28 12:13PM) if my plane should blow up, disappear, or other wise send me into the great beyond, someone please come take zim and give her a good home. be careful. she bites. :)
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Stylist's hair bursts into fire as she pumps gas. [via The Bondage File] The fire was probably caused by static electricity from Marshall's hair rubbing against her clothes, said her husband, Camilla firefighter Lt. Bill Marshall. The static electricity apparently mixed with gas fumes and ignited the fire Sunday. Moral of the story: STOP USING SO MUCH HAIRSPRAY!!! :)
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