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By Dave, June 21, 2007 12:45 pm

Catholic World News : Holy Grail buried under Roman basilica?

If they say so.

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 12:43 pm

Future Tech: DARPA Looking Into Invisible, Shoot-Through, Self-Healing Armor – Gizmodo

Getting so it’s harder and harder to tell what’s real and what’s sci-fi. Gonna have to read up on the metamaterials. Seems like I read something about them a year or so ago but tis flushed from the memory stacks now.

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 12:40 pm

Linux.com :: How to create poster presentations with Scribus

Another blow against overpriced publishing software. I’ve tried Scribus before but not in a while (but I haven’t needed to do any layout or print work in a while either). Guess I will install it and try it again just to see how much it’s changed.

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 12:34 pm

Microsoft: We patch faster than Apple, Novell and Red Hat – Computerworld UK – The Voice of IT Management

Yea, and the check is in the mail…

I’ve read what the article states but I still wonder what this supposed study is based on. Is it total actual exploits fixed or just the ones that they admit to? Seems like the numbers don’t make a lot of sense with Winblows having 90 patches and apple 129 (?) etc. But then depending on HOW you slant your data you can make anything mean anything you want. Show all the data and results and then we’ll talk…

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 11:32 am

Upon entering PerlMonks.org this morning (June 21, 2007) I was greeted with:

Happy Monkday!!
You’ve been here 6 years.

Had no idea I had been a member that long. Time really flies when you’re having life…

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By Dave, June 20, 2007 8:29 pm

Abney Park Portal

Awesome music! Love it! They have quite a few free downloads as well as a hell of a deal on grabbing all their music via download vs buying the individual albums which I intend to take advantage of as soon as I get some spare cash.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 8:22 pm

Gambas – Gambas Almost Means Basic

Interesting looking programming environment. Just saw a reference in TiraEcol, the comic that I posted a link to earlier today, and looked it up. Turns out that PCLOS has it in the package manager so have installed it. Now to see if I can figure it out and then see if I remember ANYTHING about programing in BASIC.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 5:13 pm

Been working on getting some of the books in order. Talk about a tall order. At this point I can’t even begin to guess how many titles we have. Most places on the shelves they are stacked 2 and 3 piles deep and in NO order what so ever. And the shelves are all full. So one of the next steps is to figure out where I can put more shelves. Right now I have been moving titles around to try to get the most prolific authors titles together. And even that is not exactly true as I have only been working in two or three rooms. Haven’t even started in the most crowded buildings where the majority of the books are stored. Just in the living areas where I would like to be able to find things. But as the saying goes “The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step” so this seems to be mu first step in this madness. If energy allows I suspect I may finish sometime about 3 years from now. More as it gets done…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 4:14 pm

Sycamore Ceiling Fan: Works Smarter, Not Harder (TreeHugger)

Interesting concept. From what is posted in the comments the efficiency is way on up there for the amount of air it moves. Cool! in more ways than one. 😉

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 2:09 pm

BurningBeach
: playa recipes

Food for the Playa! Only complaint I have with the site is that the recipes are in .doc format. Some of them look good, others not so, but all seem to be eatable.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 2:06 pm

freshmeat.net: Project details for Frog
Frog is a tool for publishing and maintaining contents on a Web site. It is a rewrite of Radiant CMS and features an elegant user interface, flexible templating with layouts, snippets, and flexible page parts, a simple user management/rights system, search engine friendly URLs, password protected live administration, and support for Textile.

Another bit of software that I am somewhat interested in looking into further.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 2:04 pm

TreeLine
What is TreeLine?

Some would call TreeLine an Outliner, others would call it a PIM. Basically, it just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html.

For what it’s worth. Looks interesting enough to try. Just got to get off my ass and do so…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 2:01 pm

iPod Breathalyzer: With FM Wireless Transmitter

Just not quite sure how to take this one but here it is for whatever…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 2:00 pm

Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » My Alan Turing Story

Good listen. Thanks Rudy!

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:37 pm

Selling a soul

A comic (that I have added to my daily reading list) that Steve pointed out to me. Thanks Steve!

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:29 pm

Boing Boing: Steampunk gallery

Hot stuff! Follow the link…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:27 pm

freshmeat.net: Project details for HTTrack/WebHTTrack

Need to browse a site offline? Check this out.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:26 pm

Runners — Let thirst be your guide

Makes a lot of sense to me. Too much of anything is not good fer ya…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:25 pm

Organic Cuba Libre!

Back to the land, a different look.

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:23 pm

Linux Today – Tuning LAMP Systems [Parts 2 & 3]

Mainly a link for me as I need to set up a local system for the ranch so we can use it over the wireless net here.