http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...what has happened to a server that keeps falling over. 2 Million (a number I just pulled out of my hat) geeks are descending on your server. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/30/in-case-anybody-needs-to-know/ I've been playing around with a CrossOver Office trial from CodeWeavers. It's awesome...absolutely awesome. It installs and runs "supported apps" quite well. Some non-supported apps run great too. Noteably (no pun intended), NoteWorthy Composer runs very well. CXOffice even adds items to the KDE menu and desktop! Of course, when ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/29/crossover-office/ Yay! Macromedia released Flash 7 for Linux. It's suspossed to be faster with a few new features. You can download it from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash. Installation was pretty easy. I couldn't get it to install for Mozilla...I don't know why. I have three mozilla-* directories in my /usr/lib folder, so that could of ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/28/flash-7-for-linux/ Total Transfer remaining this month: 32MB. Sheesh, I wasn't even Slashdotted...instead I mirrored KDE 3.2.2 for 10 days. -- I've been working on Icepack lately and have an implementation of dependency resolution plan on a piece of paper. Maybe I'll get enough time to implement it this week. Hell's Half Acer (The lettuce ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/27/utho/ Wow...a lot's gone on this weekend. As I said in my last post, we went to a fiddle contest. Had a good time. Lots of great fiddling! My brother and I competed in the twin devision and placed 5th out of 10 places. The next day I competed in the ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/24/wow/ Bye! I'm off the the Oregon Old Time Fiddling Contest. I'll be playing in the twin and junior divisions. See you Sunday! Anyway, you might want to check out this page: http://www.hometownmotocross.com/pages/asinine_laws__all_locations.htm http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/22/fiddle-contest/ Heck, won't I ever stop posting depressing stories? Maybe, but in the mean time more depressing news came up. The feds want Bev Harris, ownder of BlackBoxVoting.org to pony up her access logs that tell who visited her site. Looks like they'll get their way too. The logs probably weren't even ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/20/black-box-voting/ Well, it happened. Shame, shame on them. How long before we see the first patent on a button or scrollbox? What will happen to SuSE and all the other European Linux distros? There is of course a /. article. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/19/eu-approves-software-patents/ The family of Professor Edward Kasner is sueing Google over their name. Kasner first used the word Googol in his book Mathematics and the Imagination to describe a very large number. A Googol, by the was is a 10 raised to the 100th power. It does appear that Google is a ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/18/googol/ ...is what Alexis de Tocqueville Institute says. This is the same person who crafted the report proving that terrorism works better with Open Source software and that all the US's IT troubles are because of open source. Never mind the fact that these studies were funded by Microsoft. A quote: "It is clear ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/17/torvalds-did-not-invent-linux/ Went to CCT's (Corvallis Community Theatre) production of Fiddler on the Roof last night. Wow. It was awesome, and required a lot of hard work (over 200 people were involved). Sorry, no pictures due to copyright restrictions. The local newspaper might have something, but their search function is broken. Anyways, it ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/17/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Well, what would you expect. Someone has released a worm called Dabber, which exploits a security hole on Sasser. It scans for machines infected with Sasser, then opens up port 9898 so that crackers/attackers can enter and check our your computer (or run something, make your computer crash...whatever crackers do. ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/15/dabber-exploites-sasser-hole/ http://www.fredsvagt.dk/intern/bomb_iraq.html Yes, Paul sent me that one. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/15/bomb-iraq-songs-for-peace-demonstration/ CNN has an article up about how the US may deploy tiny robots into the nations water ways to sample water in real time "...to protect our waterways from terrorist attacks". Maybe this could be used to monitor pollution from chemical and other plants? Or maybe not... http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/05/14/water.robots.ap/index.htm http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/14/robot-patrol/ Hmm, what next. The Justice Department has forced the ACLU to remove a paragraph from their website about what FBI agents could do under the PATRIOT act. The article is located on the Washington Post website. You can still get the text via Google cache (read /. for a link). Ugg, ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/14/justice-department-censors-aclu/ Well, it looks like Google is going to start adding "targeted image ads" to websites (not its own, though). No animations, and they must be a standard size. However, they will be distributed, editing HOSTS won't block them. However, downloading the AdBlock Extention for Firefox and adding some filters for ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/13/google-to-post-image-ads/ The US Postal System (USPS) is getting driven out of business by private companies. I recently (well, three weeks ago) purchased a battery from CompUSA. They only ship via FedEx. Only. The FedEx truck couldn't find us :(. It was "returned to sender" without any notification from CompUSA. I requested ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/12/the-state-of-the-us-postal-system/ I downloaded and compiled Scribus 1.1.6. For those of you who don't know what Scribus is, it's "GPL Desktop Publishing and More". I have an upcomming concert brochure that I need to do and thought that I'd try out Scribus. The build was simple, just the regular ./configure, make, make install ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/12/scribus-116/ http://www.thesunmachine.net/image_archive/archive/oct03/al_sahhaf_microsoft_no_bugs.jpg Thanks Paul! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/12/redmond-mis-information-minister/ Andrew Morton released version 2.6.6 (please use a mirror!) of the Linux Kernel yesterday. Soo, of course I downloaded the 2.4 MB of bzip2'd patches. Shucks, well it broke support for my wireless card AND my PS/2 mouse stopped working. Now I'm back to 2.6.3. Now you know why I have ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/05/11/the-266-kernel/