From the css discussion mailing list, an interesting use for mozilla’s userContent.css. Most impressive css3 + mozilla
action.
The original post was written in October! Yet more evidence that I spend too little time in front of a computer…
I was googling for documentation on yelp, the gnome man/info/help browser to see if it was possible to use it as an alias for xman because:
yelp --help output doesn’t seem to offer any flags> man yelp
No manual entry for yelpOn the fiifth listing of 20 I came across an SF short story by Cory Doctrow that I highly recommend entitled "0wnz0red.
Enjoy. NB, surfing his articles has the potential to kill a lot of time 😃
J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga is considered by many to be the penultimate literary accomplishment of the 20th century. David Brin analyzes the trilogy, its author, and its genre in an excellent essay on Salon.
Linked within the story is Brin’s similar approach to another bit of pop culture to which some of us have been exposed…
How music should be accessed. 😃
RhythmboxRhythmbox GNOME music player homepagerhythmbox.orgKid Koala is opening for some funk band at the 9:30 tonight.
I’m going.
Ben is going.
Amanda is going.
Is anyone else going?
Well, I’ve given up on coding my own site for now. I just don’t have the time
=/
This system will be much more powerful for visitors. I’m not going to give up on my useless quest to successfully pretend to be a coder, but I’m not going to make everyone else suffer along the way…
Old MS Hotfix instructions for IIS4.
To Paraphrase:
Microsoft recommends that customers running IIS 4.0 on Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, protect their systems by uninstalling IIS 4.0.
I couldn’t agree more.
I know it’s somewhat silly to critisize software that old for having a crazy security hole, but one can only take so much 😉
Right now I’m looking at a dialog box caused by this fucker.
Windows NT 4.0 has been updated. Remove any disks from the floppy disk drives and choose OK to restart your computer.
Under which is a single button labled “OK”.
On a mail server that is also a file server and a web server. Be careful! Don’t accidentally hit that OK button!
Stupid.
Kid Koala.
9:30 Club
Washington, DC
November 23rd
!!!
If any of you fuckers bail on me like you did for Strickly Kev/Amon Tobin, heads will roll.
amanda: Buy me a ticket pooper. I will attend. You boys must dance (and not just w/ Shannon). 😃
Neat, I’m not the only freak that was obsessed with UU back in the day - these guys are recreating
it!
I wonder if just they have the same mental association that makes me think of the game whenever I hear Jane’s Addiction’s Three Days or anything on the Smashing Pumkin’s Siamese Dream
Making it to the 10th of 9 labyrinth levels (secret end level!) and realizing that broken piece of metal I accidentally dropped in lava on level 6 (three weeks ago in RL time) was half of the magical sword, which is the only item of the 10 magical items in the game not in my pouches (I was a mage, didn’t worry about silly swords) was going to prevent me from beating the secret end of the game (I’d already saved the princess) really pissed me off. This folks, was the last good game that existed before the net… before struggling players at two in the morning could just look online for a strategy guide - although if you were to pick up UU now, you’ve had no problem finding step by step walkthroughs.
Good stuff - highly recommended. Oh and software-3d first-person rendering that looked better than doom2 before q1 was out - sweetness.
Erotic Jesus
lays with his Marys
Loves his Marys
Bits of puzzle,
hitting
eachother
All now with wings
Oh my Marys,
never wonder…
Night is shelter
for nudity’s shivers
All now with wings…
Right on Perry. I don’t get it but the “All now with wings” part sounds cool so right on.
When you have 10 or more geeks in an irc channel (who else would be in an irc channel) talking geek talk, invariably someone says “I wish I had my own T-1”.
The general response among newbs is “I wish I had a T3!”
The educated then say something about OC-48 or whatever insane new uselessly extreme-bandwidth-gigabit-ethernet-wouldn’t-know what-to-do-with is current
My laptop is currently the only thing plugged into the LAN side of a T1 that I just set up. Now that I have it, I can’t think of anything to actually do with it! Blarg!
A silver 2001 Ford Focus pulls lazily into a parking spot directly in front of Dunken’ Donuts. With the engine still running, the door pops open as the power window begins gliding up, allowing the blue curls of cigarette smoke to
continue their rise out of the vehicle into the damp morning air. Window up, the car shuts off and out steps a young man, tie loosened, hair still wet from showering, rubbing one eye with the free hand not toying with the freshly lit cigarette.
Cars pass and Grant walks up to the sidewalk vectored to an average ‘shopping-center garden’, heavliy mulched and surrounded by a curb of it’s own.
Meticulously placing the nearly unsmoked cigaretted on the curb of the garden, filter side dangling, Grant tests the air for any hint of a breeze that would deem the the safe-place unsuitable. Discovering none, he glances around to see if anyone saw him saving the Camel for later and walks toward the Dunken Donuts.
Shots of two clerks and two customers - both female, both placing large orders. The door is heard opening and Grant walks into place behind the women in line.
Misc rambling - pull focus to see Grant staring holes into the back of their heads that they need baggels with toppings at a time like this.
Cigarette has continued smoldering but is nearly out. Zoom reveals faint line of smoke still trailing.
Women recieve breakfast to go and leave at the same time. Grant oders a coffee.
At this donut shop, cream is put in before the coffee. While the coffee is dropping into the cup, the clerk is positioning the lid to be secured to the styrofoam the instant the cup is full.
Grant counts out the 21 cents to even the change and hands it to the clerk.
The cigarette appears out. A hand reaches down to wisk it up, it is Grant. He trotts back toward the silver focus, slightly more awake now that the coffee grabbing mission is accomplished.
The two women previously in line in front of Grant in the donut shop are in cars on either side of the focus, still jabbering as if it wasn’t 7AM as Grant approches the vehicle.
Key turning.
Vehicle begins backing out of the spot but through the mirror view, it appears to be approaching the donut shop.
Grant slams on the breaks.
Uniformed clerk from donut shop aproaches Focus with something white in his hand.
Grant powers down the window from the drivers side and looks over to see the clerk.
You forgot your coffee.
Advice: Do not use reiserfs.
ben: told you cough
Ladies and gentlemen, I am now officially wireless. Thanks Paul for the wlan-ng help and Jeff for the free 3com Access Point.
Paul helped me get my wireless pcmcia card working in gentoo. I got up this morning and swapped the living-room hub with the hub in my bedroom (needed the uplink port) and plugged in the access point. I then brought up /etc/init.d/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/wlan. I was still configured for the guru SSID but that would soon change. The only problem was, Jeff never told me how he’d configured the AP before giving it to me… I had my fingers crossed for WEP to be turned off but it really wouldn’t have mattered that much.
> airsnort“Oh, neat, scan.” click
Airsnort saw the AP and I quickly put it’s name in /etc/wlan.conf and restarted /etc/init.d/wlan.
> dhcpcd wlan0
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop/me unplugs cat5
Now if only there were a way to make batteries wireless - using the wireless pcmcia card drains my batteries in ~45 minutes.
Ben: I have not had a cigarette in one week!
Grant: !!!
Welp, reiserfs has officially decieved me.
Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root filesystem on 03:07
> reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda7
[UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 110!
[UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 111!
[UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 112!
[UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 113!
[UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 114!It then makes it to about 133 before aborting and dying. Good times indeed.
For those not in the know, that means, I just lost my / linux partition with all of my data on it. Suck suck suck.
Edit: No seriously - this fucking sucks. hard. =/
Well, for lack of a better name, I bought jokerbone.com last night. It’s not live yet but will be soon.
When it is live, I can be e-mailed at grant at jokerbone.com and you can all update your bookmarks.
It sounds so 1997 saying ‘update your bookmarks’. Like back in the day when ‘dynamic’ sites were new ideas and taglines like hit refresh to update as content changes often and under construction animated gifs and warnings were the rage.
sigh
Every other Thursday night from 7 to 9 PM, I am required to be at the office for “Tech Meetings”. The remaining Thursdays are listed as “Game Nights” but no one has ever actually had a ‘Game Night’ since I started working here four months ago.
Last night (and into this morning) we successfully had our first lan party (unnamed) at the office. It went very well but the hour drive home at 5:30 AM was definitely rough. The boss even came and spent three hours trying to get Warcraft 3 working on our LAN - taking breaks to let myself and ben own him up in Q3 matches.
Good times. Next time we’ll definitely have a camera handy.
I had to move my ftp/ssh/www server + nat/firewall box. I had hoped to be able
to leave it up but it was strung through too many powerstrips.
> uptime
Linux pcp243892pcs 2.4.17 #2 Sat Jan 19 22:25:47 EST 2002 i586 unknown
14:27:35 up 102 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00Tears were shed.
I just wanted to extend my congrats to Paul, who is the geekiest guy I’ve ever met that doesn’t have /anything/ on the web of his own to which I could href his name.
The congrats are in order becuase he popped the question the night before last.
Now his lovely gf is his lovely fiance.
gl to the both of them 😃
My buddy Ben got a job where I work.
Aaron and I are going to drive up to Cleveland to get him on Friday to help him move to Maryland, where he’ll be my new roomate. I’m still shacked up with ol’ pink eye, so it’s going to be close-quarter living for a bit, but you won’t be able to swing a cat without hitting a computer. 😃
Good times will be had.
Back when I was an art major taking an ‘introduction to art and digital media’ class, I was given the assignment to make three animated banner advertisements.
I knew the assignment was more or less a “learn the technology” piece, which was extremely aggravating for me, as were the majority of my college art classes. The first few years of art classes focus on learning the media, then focusing on the craft. The media wasn’t new to me, and I didn’t learn the craft. =/
So anyway, my main banner ad was unintelligible sccribble with a red, then green, then blue background.
During my review, the TA pointed out that I had chosen rgb wisely and that it makes my banner ad cool. Now I’m no better artist / mind than the TA - she, and all of the other people I interracted with are extremely talented, but I just laughed and said “I was cliche-dropping wired magazine. rgb ya know?”
The so-far design of this site has been going that way so far. A parody of a designer site w/ some usability excpetions (a true parody would have 7px type somewhere). I think that, this, more than my disgust with the art department’s technology-hand-holding, was what kept me from a degree.
I’m a un-creative bastard.
The girlfriend took me ‘shopping’ yesterday. Half a newly-enlarged-paycheck later and I am suitably equipped with the first new wardrobe (half-wardrobe perhaps) since Mom took me out before my sophmore year of highschool for ‘school-shopping’.
The new threads are comfy.
I’m coming down with a mild cold. Progress will slow to a halt again until I’m fit to vim it up.