Posted in General, Technology on June 28th, 2005 67 Comments »
I had an old IBM Thinkpad that I bought used at a local computer show for Dena. A Pentium II 233Mhz with a 5G hard drive and 192M of PC100 RAM. Not exactly high end but hey, it’s a Thinkpad and it was fairly cheap.
After she got her Powerbook I installed Debian […]
Posted in GNOME on June 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Bill talked about Drivel, a GNOME application for posting to your blog. I tried the current version in Ubuntu but was confused when it only appeared to support LiveJournal. I caught Bill on IRC and found out he had to built the latest version of source to get it to work with his […]
Posted in General, Technology on June 24th, 2005 3 Comments »
As a whole I love C# but sometimes I find some quirk that I just don’t understand. I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation of why it works the way it does but I don’t know what it is.
I was building a Gtk.TreeView last night and setup an enum for each column in the […]
Posted in General on June 15th, 2005 No Comments »
Spam is a huge problem for everyone. Running a mail server these days is particularly painful. Spam, viruses, and phishing are enough to drive me insane. Our spamassassin + amavis solution worked well for a while but something changed recently that made it a total bitch to keep running. Amavis would […]
Posted in General on June 12th, 2005 No Comments »
We watched Empire Strikes Back tonight. While the end credits were rolling by we noticed a familiar name scroll by: John Ratzenberger (who reminds me of John Fleck for some strange reason) aka Cliff Clavin on Cheers. We were shocked that we’ve seen this movie literally hundreds of times and never noticed […]
