May 07, 2004
Break free from Radio
Are you stuck with a lot of data tied up in a Radio Userland driven weblog? Fear not, I've just...
May 05, 2004
IE DNS problem?
Using Internet Explorer and moving hosts from one DNS address to another? Find that IE doesn't seem to want to...
April 29, 2004
Server changes afoot
Bear with me folks as I move from one host to another. Both web service and mail might be a...
April 23, 2004
Googling for sensitive info
A sysadmin should be responsible for assuring that sensitive info doesn't get published to the web. Here's list of googledorks...
April 16, 2004
Outlook 2003 and IMAP, a marriage made in Hell
I'm really disappointed with how Outlook 2003 interacts with IMAP servers. Basically, it sucks. Outlook can't seem to correctly handle...
April 06, 2004
Speakeasy rocks
If you're looking for an ISP that knows their stuff technically look no further than Speakeasy. Their phone support folks...
March 06, 2004
MS Photo Editor error?
Ever used Microsoft Photo Editor and gotten the error message "Insufficient memory to complete operation" from it? Well, here's the...
February 29, 2004
Hash generator
For those in need of such a thing, I've resurrected the old Hash Generator. With it you can create various...
February 20, 2004
Using imapfilter with mailing lists?
Anyone out there using imapfilter to handle rerouting of their mailing list messages? I'd like to find a way to...
Getting kerberos stuff to compile on RedHat 9
If you see something like /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory when you're trying to compile something using kerberos...
January 30, 2004
Double-scrolling?
I've a Toshiba Satellite laptop that's giving me fits. The button on the touchpad is either sending two clicks or...
January 16, 2004
Extracting files from an RPM archive
Should anyone else need it, the command to extract files out of an RPM file is: rpm2cpio RPM_file | cpio...
January 15, 2004
Sacrificing goats to the kernel gods
Good lord but is it a huge pain in the ass to get the 2.6 kernel up and running. I've naively wandered down this dark and threatening road before and have made the mistake again.
January 08, 2004
Oh the joys of kernel upgrades
What fun! Upgrading the linux kernel to support a USB network connection (the slots are all full) triggered it's own...
December 08, 2003
COM issues?
I've been struggling with a box that seems to run into trouble with it's LSASS and SVCHOST activity. Something on...
December 03, 2003
Expanding your DirecTivo
Got an RCA DVR39 DirecTivo? Want to expand the number of hours it can record? It's not all that hard to do.
December 02, 2003
Think different, screw the consumers!
Apple, a company I've long chalked up under the rubric "if you saw hot dogs made, you'd never eat them...
December 01, 2003
Die! Die! Die!
I despise the F-lock key most new keyboards are coming with these days. The damned thing just doesn't work consistently....
November 21, 2003
GPS in a coke can?
Australian IT gives us the low-down on Coke puts prize genie in a bottle. They didn't put GPS in a...
November 20, 2003
Putty and line drawing?
Using RedHat and PuTTY and not getting the vt100 line drawing characters when using screen? I've a simple fix for that...
November 19, 2003
Time is more relative than you think
Raymond Chen gives a little insight in managing daylight savings time in his article Why Daylight Savings Time is nonintuitive....
November 14, 2003
Explorer not showing thumbnails?
Running Windows 2000? Has your Explorer stopped showing you pictures when you view files in the thumbnail mode? As in,...
November 05, 2003
Samba 3 and Active Directory
Heh, not satisfied with just getting my old machines brought back from the grave since their drives died, I also...
November 04, 2003
Das Boot!
Translating software is just such fun. A page, originally in German, when translated to English gets it just a little...
October 29, 2003
Bluetooth headsets?
Anyone out there using a BlueTooth headset with their PC? I'd like to make use of one as a wireless...
October 17, 2003
Getting beta and better!
I love using Skype. I just had an hour and 35 minute phone call with a guy in New Zealand...
October 16, 2003
Deliberate scratches on CDs?
Re: Fade. This goes way back to the idea of punching minuscule holes in 5.25" floppies. We used tricks like...
October 14, 2003
Tech costs over time
Here's some FYI links on the cost of CPU Performance, memory prices, and disc storage over time. Ah, the days...
October 12, 2003
Googlebot and moving site?
Anyone out there know the implications of moving a site from one IP address to another and it's impact on...
October 10, 2003
Search and replace
Need to change some text across a lot of files? As in, moving from one comment or trackback URL to...
October 07, 2003
Freight trains of data
In moving Syndic8 from the old box to a new one I've had to move over 15gb of mostly compressed...
Heinous security hack thanks to MT
Basically there's a way simply be editing templates and files to cause MT to write some files and execute a daemon that'll let you login to a shell with no authentication.
October 04, 2003
New p2p voice telephony?
Anyone out there using Skype yet? Supposedly it's a p2p telephony application with sound quality that's better than even landline...
October 02, 2003
Vintage PDA
I've lucked into finding an Newton eMate 300.
October 01, 2003
Autoconfig proxy settings
If you run a network and people on it are using Internet Explorer you can help them find and use your network proxy (if you have one, that is).
September 30, 2003
Yet another stupid idea
It seems Network Solutions, part of Verisign, has added what's known as a wildcard A record to the root DNS servers.
For the non-geeks out there this means they've added a hack that damages how web sites are found.
September 15, 2003
Mac-on-Linux via Cygwin?
Hmmm, if I'm reading things right I ought to be able to use YDL on a Macintosh to startup Mac-on-linux...
Back online long enough to get demoted
This has been the Summer from Hell for machines around here. From drive failures to electric brownouts, it's been rough....
August 22, 2003
Blocking spyware
Two tools no Windows should ever be without: Spybot Search and Destroy and SpywareBlaster. The combination of these two will...
August 21, 2003
Yet another drive crash
Cripes, yet another one of my machines has decided to have a drive crash! This time it's the linux box...
August 12, 2003
Power supply testing
The AnandTech folks have done a comprehensive review of PC power supplies. Their Power Supply Roundup offers a rather extensive...
August 07, 2003
Video drivers redux
Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece...
August 05, 2003
No such thing as the good old days
Ever had to go back to using 640x480 resolution? Some video driver jiggery-pokery has landed me into VGA safe mode....
August 04, 2003
Where good products go to die
Novell Acquires Ximian And of course the various nitwits will chime in about how this will or won't affect open...
August 02, 2003
UI memory issues?
Riddle me this, when using Windows 2000 and opening a LOT of browser and other windows sometimes the UI starts...
July 31, 2003
Trackball Explorer guessing games?
Anyone undestand why the the Intellimouse software sometimes doesn't understand when the Trackball Explorer is attached? Every so often, when...
Google toolbar deleted my bookmarklets?
Hmmm, I recently installed the latest beta of Google's toolbar. Prior to using it I had a couple of JavaScript...
July 29, 2003
MIME type info
http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces http://www.iana.org/assignments/access-types http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/ http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types A wealth of "let's not go reinventing things" resources......
July 26, 2003
Giving the finger
An interesting look back at the finger protocol....
July 25, 2003
Talking past each other?
Dan Brickley's on a roll lately. His posts into the rdfweb-dev mailing list regarding Julian's inquiries about FoaF have been...
July 22, 2003
No time for this crap...
Grrr, sometimes I hate linux. Yeah, yeah, one distribution versus another and upgrades and all that crap... save it, I...
Gathering mail
Got a lot of different e-mail accounts? Tired of having to check the manually? Got a linux server handy? If...
July 20, 2003
Satellite and Tivo?
Anyone out there using a Tivo/DirecTV combo? Which unit offers better features? The Hughes or the Phillps? With either of...
July 17, 2003
Proxying IRC?
Anyone got a favorite IRC proxy?
Extracting files from RPMs
If you've got files bundled u p in an RPM archive you can extract them using the rpm2cpio and cpio...
rpm segfaulting?
Anyone out there in the audience an RPM and strace expert? I'm trying to get rpm to delete and install some packages and it's segfaulting. Here's an
strace from it.
July 13, 2003
And some folks wonder why they're not getting help
Rogi, when he's not commenting about pie always comes up with a gem:"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making...
July 10, 2003
Lazyweb! Compression please!
I call upon thee, oh mighty and poweful LazyWeb, to make a way to use gzip even when the blogging tool doesn't directly support it!
July 05, 2003
IRC proxy?
Is there such a thing as an IRC proxy? One that would let me use 'more than one' local IRC...
June 05, 2003
Outlook Express not resolving addresses?
In an attempt to continue cleaning up after the Quicktime upgrade fiasco I discovered Outlook Express won't properly perform it's...
June 03, 2003
IE lost it's PNG support?
Has your installation of Internet Explorer lost it's ability to display PNG files? I recently attempted to upgrade Apple's QuickTime....
May 20, 2003
Closing threads?
How useful is it to close comment and trackback threads after a set period of time passes? Is it the...
May 16, 2003
Vouching for you?
Or consider that foaf:Group allows a site to offer up information about it's membership, if so desired. From this perspective...
Extra, extra get your wheel, your reinvented wheel
What's the saying? Oh yeah, everything old is new again. Apparently CDF is now retro. Gee, I've been generating CDF...
May 14, 2003
Longhorn and visualization
Well, this picture is interesting. A 'carousel' view of your contacts. That and more coming in Longhorn....
May 06, 2003
New exporter version
If you've using Radio UserLand and want to switch to MovableType you may want to try using the new 0.4.4...
May 05, 2003
Resolving namespace URI?
Why is there no consensus on resolving namespace URI? Me, I'd prefer there being an HTML (or XHTML) page at...
April 30, 2003
Blogshares
Zoinks! Apparently all this must be worth something, at least according to blogshares. This reminds me of the crappy a...
April 28, 2003
Coddling bad software?
Should we bother trying to coddle bad ways of doing things simply because those are the only tools people possess?...
Step away from the aggregator...
Apparently slashdot is starting to feel it's own pain. Now they're limiting use of RSS downloads to only once an...
April 25, 2003
XP media player supports Blogging?
blogger, mt, audio, mp3, media player
April 24, 2003
Doing sitewide Foaf
With the addition of Brad Choate's MTAuthor plug-in it looks like it should be possible to do a site-wide FoaF...
Exposing your XML
I'm doing a little experimenting. This is a link to an XML representation of an article here. I've used a...
April 23, 2003
Connection overload
Zounds, I'm so connected it hurts. IRC channels into rdfig and etcon, Confab, MSN and RSS. Pardon the mess while...
Bad RSS readers
How about we all start mining our server logs and start 'outing' the bad RSS readers? Ones that don't: honor...
April 22, 2003
Interacting with Caches?
Why don't RSS readers act proactively with proxies? I run Squid on my laptop. Why don't the readers have a...
Feeds in Readers?
Has anyone who's written an aggregator given consideration as to how crappy a feed's site will look in it? I'm...
April 18, 2003
WiFi workarounds
When travelling be sure you've got contingency services available. Ben Hammersley's travelling and discovers the WiFi provider is blocking port...
April 17, 2003