Tonight I sat down, flipped the TV on, and browsed through the TiVo menu trying to find the movie I had been watching last night.
Then I remembered it wasn’t a movie. I was reading a book.
It’s been a long few weeks.
Important new information I learned:
One can have LILO boot Linux to single user mode by adding “single” to the end of the image to use e.g. LinuxOLD single — this turns out to be important when…
Linux 2.6 uses LVM 2 (only), so you need to have upgraded to LVM 1.x BEFORE you fire up [...]
From: Amazon.com
Subject: [placeholder for winning team] Wins the NCAA Tournament!
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
Congratulations, [placeholder for winning team]! As someone who has purchased sports-related products, we thought you should be the first to see our selection of NCAA championship products.
Amazon.com trying to say they don’t care who actually wins the NCAA Tournament? Or an amusing [...]
I whimsically (after backing everything up) tried Dreamhost’s new(ish) One-Click upgrades. Since I installed both notes and whatcartoon.com using One-Click installs of WordPress, I decided to give One-Click upgrades a shot. I already upgraded this site (notes) by hand, but What Cartoon was woefully out of date.
It all worked very smoothly [...]
I don’t remember what I was searching for. Somehow, I stumbled upon Radio News on Radio Days, which has a collection of Creative Commons-NC/ND-licensed recordings of old radio broadcasts, including Edward R. Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell broadcast of December 3, 1943.
I had never heard such extended recordings from this time [...]
Also, apparently something else is also behaving differently on NearlyFreeSpeech, breaking the ImageMagick processor.
I compensated with an awful hack and, just to be sure, pregenerating all of the view images so I can go to bed without, hopefully, leaving photos.xythian.com woefully broken.
I think NearlyFreeSpeech is going to have to go. They seem [...]
It looks like Windows media Player will cheerfully play tracks downloaded by Yahoo Music Engine. Indeed, I didn’t realize this before but it looks like YME is using WMP at a much higher level than I thought to play tracks, since WMP knows about recently played and most frequently played tracks.
Sooo, I can log [...]
It’s been a couple weeks now. I have some more comments about the Dell DJ:
1) In shuffle play mode, the random track selection happens with the “next track” rather than when the playlist starts playing. This means if you navigate back a song or two and then forward, you get different songs. [...]
My shiny new Dell DJ 30G arrived a few days ago. It arrived in a box-within-a-box arrangement from Dell.
I quickly unpacked the various bits and set up the dock next to my computer and plugged it in. I only installed the Dell DJ Drivers rather than the whole mess of software on [...]
Heat recently smote a disk in my Linux server. The machine had two SATA drives in the 3.5″ bays. Several months ago, one of these failed. I assumed it was a typical statistical lossage and replaced the drive.
The new drive failed within six months. [...]
I’ve been eyeing this lens for a while and finally bought one. I’ve wanted a better travel lens set up than having to haul the Sigma 17-35 and the 28-135 IS. I’ve never been very happy with the Sigma. It’s an OK lens optically but it just [...]
Dreamhost recently started offering quick, automated set-up for WordPress. I decided to try it out. I used their “web panel” to set up this subdomain and then to install WordPress on it. Everything went very smoothly. WordPress appears to be more polished than Moveable [...]