The Love Shack

It’s as though the Mozilla guys knew that Google was cooking up Chrome and wanted to make sure that Chrome didn’t steal all their glory. So about a week ago, they gave us Ubiquity. If you need to know why Ubiquity is cool, I’ll let their page do the talking. But, if you already think [...]

So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be [...]

I just threw together a little script I call rdiffdir to allow me to make rdiff deltas of entire directories easily. All it really does is create a tar archive of the directory and use rdiff on it. But it’s easy to use (well, for me at least ), quick, and it gets [...]

Last night I signed up for Twitter and went to add my Jabber account for notifications. Only to find out that it didn’t work. A little bit of digging showed that while my Jabber client of choice, Gajim, does have some support for XMPP URI’s it’s rather limited. I started to just hack a fix, [...]

Sad news. Blackdown Java Linux is no more. The project has been retired. For those who never knew Blackdown in its prime, it was the only way to get proper Java support in Linux for years. For years Sun was under the impression that Linux == Red Hat. So for all of us non-RH users, [...]

So I did a bit of hacking on my WP install today. I’ve been using the excellent TrackBack Validator Plugin to manage trackback spam on my blog. So far it’s done an AMAZING job. I have not yet had a single piece of TrackBack spam get through, nor have I had a single VALID TrackBack [...]

Now that I’ve gotten over the initial hump of learning enough Ruby (on Rails) to get some productive work done, here’s my list of quite-possibly-essential tools for the job:

Ruby (and Rails, if you’re doing web stuff)
Ruby Interactive Reference – Currently v1.8 (ri1.8 package in Debian)
A good text editor. I prefer Emacs for heavy coding, vim [...]

The OpenID wordpress plugin is up and running. It’s not without its share of hiccups, but it works well enough. One of my favorite features is that it allows you to associate any number of openid’s with an account, so if/when I start collecting more ID’s, I can just add them to my account and [...]

So my MythTV box, Roosevelt, is an ultra-quiet Dell Dimension 5150. That’s actually how it got it’s name. When I first got it and turned it on I thought it was broken because it didn’t make ANY noise. I recently found out, however, that it’s only as quiet as the system load you throw at [...]

So this is pretty interesting stuff and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before. A group of programmers are out to reimplement some proprietary software as free software. The only catch is, their target is not Freecell, Minesweeper, or even the Character Map… no… their target is Windows XP! A fully binary-compatible (apps [...]