Comments (0)

By Dave, October 7, 2006 8:18 pm

Boing Boing: Enterprise sells for 1/2 million dollars

There is a bunch of folks out there with a lot more money than sense…

Comments (0)

By Dave, October 7, 2006 10:05 am

GNUzilla – Summary [Savannah]

The home to the GNU version (to be) of FireFox named IceWeasel.   Nothing here yet but a bit of text and some source code links but with Mozilla getting sh*tty about the logo and name this is the way to go.  Hope this works out.

Comments (0)

By Dave, October 6, 2006 7:24 pm

PBS | I, Cringely . October 6, 2006 – Risky Business

Cringely  has bit of a different take on the internet gambling law just passed.  Nothing like living in interesting times…

Comments (0)

By Dave, October 3, 2006 9:32 pm

If after installing Kubuntu you are having a problem getting to the local network (Samba Shares) then follow the bouncing iBook (not really but several times I felt like it). 😉
Mouse over the bar with the Home Files and Personal Folder (Kicker Panel) and such in it, Right Click over an unused space and in the menu that is presented go up to Add Applet to panel. Once the window comes up, scroll down and highlite Network Folders and click on Add to Panel.  It should put an icon with a globe with a network line at the bottem somewhere in the Kicker Panel.  Once you find it click on it and if you already have the Samba Shares default name and password set, you should be able to see and access your local network.

Oh the hours and hair that this little nothing has cost me!  So simple and yet so stupid to not include it in a default configuration.

On the iBook, wireless and able to access stuff off the other machines on the local network.  Now if only Skype would make a version for linux on the ppc. 🙁

Comments (0)

By Dave, October 3, 2006 7:52 pm

The Woz’s business card – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

I had been wondering what this thing looked like since watching the video last week.  Now we know.  Cool looking card!  And cuts meat. 😉

Comments (1)

By Dave, October 1, 2006 11:29 am

FastMHz.com :: View topic – Induction Launchers & EM Rocketry

Interesting launching of rocket videos on the site.  Neat stuff!  As a point of safety though I think I would clamp or bolt the launching coil down.  The way it keeps landing on top of the capacitor bank and transformer/coil/whatever would worry me just a bit… 😉

Comments (1)

By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:40 am

Colbert Interviews Steve Wozniak – Your Daily Dose of The Colbert Report

Love the bit with the biz card steak knife. 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:26 am

BOFH: Pulling a computer survey swifty | The Register

😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:22 am

Ubuntu 6.10 Beta Released | Linuxlookup

Time to fire up the cdburner again… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 27, 2006 8:11 pm

Teeny Linux PCs proliferate

Now this is a SMALL linux box!  Thanks for the pointer Steve.  Even if it was a while back.

Comments (1)

By Dave, September 26, 2006 12:11 am

The Swank Pad

Interesting stuff on the site but that isn’t the reason for the post. In the upper left hand corner there is the Hi-Fi button to push to listen to the radio feed. So being into some of this kind of music I try it. It takes me to Live365. Which says that the feed is only available to VIP users. This is not the first site I have gone to lately that uses Live365 and who knows it may be reasonable enough to try for a month. So I decide to see how much this radio thingie is. Go to the join now page and see that the payments are $5.95 a month or less depending on how long you are willing to, untried, commit to. Then I go and look at the TOS. Which are posted below in all it’s splender. I especially like section 8 where you have to send them written notice to cancel the service. After reading this CRAP I think I will PASS even though there are several stations that are only on this service that I would like to listen to. But not enough to put up with this kind of gargage agreement:

Continue reading 'The Swank Pad'»

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 25, 2006 11:29 pm

BOFH: Unconventional interview | The Register
How many pints did you say you can drink?

😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 25, 2006 10:58 pm

Home – KDE on Mac OS X
LOVE the KDE disclaimer!

(Disclaimer)

They may not work. They may not even install. They may make your monitor explode in a shower of glass. EVEN LCDs! They may make your children grow horns, and cause the people in your neighborhood to explode spontaneously while doing the Macarena. They will rip out your eyeballs, and eat your soul with a really dull spoon, laughing and cackling while forcing Cheerios up your nose. They will make your intestines explode in a rain of confetti, while evil clowns bite your feet.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 25, 2006 1:03 pm

Techdirt: European Newspapers Look To Reinvent Robots.txt

Tis plain that these folks have no grasp on standard usage of robots.txt.  You don’t want the page/site indexed just put it in the damn robots.txt file and forget it.  The spiders respect that file IF it is written right.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 24, 2006 11:55 am

Session Manager :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

If you use Mozilla and use multiple tabs/windows and have had the experience of having the browser quit on you, then not remembering what tabs were unread even after digging through history, then this is for you.

This extension adds a tool to the tool menu called Session Manager.  If the browser crashes or you quit or close the main window instead of just the tab, when you restart you have the option of selecting from the last X # of sessions. Option is set to 1.  I have mine set at 3 just to see how it does.

Another feature is closed tabs memory.  With this little gem an incorrectly closed tab is only a Tools Menu > Session Manager > Closed Tabs click away.  Preset option is 10 closed tabs and this seems reasonable to me so I left it as is.
Check out all of the options after install to enable Sessions Manage and set your prefs.

So far seems very stable. Don’t note any speed difference. Will have to try it with a couple of days worth of tabs and see how it does.

In my opinion this extension should become a part of the standard distro. A must have!

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 20, 2006 2:43 pm

Session Manager :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

Just installed this and am hoping it works as advertised.  Am more than a little tired of having Firefox quit and loosing a ton of tabs that I havn’t gone through yet.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 20, 2006 12:07 pm

The Internet Craftsmanship Museum

So much to see!  This site will take a LOT of time to get through.  Wonderful stuff!

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 20, 2006 9:17 am

New Scientist Technology Blog: Spaceflight on the cheap

I remember a russian SciFi story (can’t remember the name though) where the people launched rockets off of high altitude balloons to get to an (almost) abandoned space station and then boosted it back into orbit.  Wish I could remember the name of the story now.  There was a russian cosmonaut on board that had suffered such bone and muscle degeneration that he couldn’t go back to earth and was gonna die when the station deorbited.

Love these bits and pieces of memory…

Glad to see this anyway.  Suspect the FAA and probably NASA will move in to stop this on the grounds of national security or something equally lame.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 20, 2006 9:06 am

Boing Boing: HOWTO pick a Master padlock with a BART card

Ain’t nothing safe anymore…  I have seen and done this with a piece of aluminum can before just to see if it would work and it does.  Course a hammer is quicker but not quite as neat… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 20, 2006 8:43 am

After downloading the latest Ubuntu distro and burning it to disk I started it up in the iBook. Fought with it for a while but as there was a storm going on at the time and all the wired computers were off, was unable to get to the instructions for making the airport extreme work so rebooted into OS X and waited till later.

Later came today. After updating the backup software I did a full backup to the firewire drive and rebooted into it just to check. Worked fine so then booted into the Ubuntu cd and started trying to get the wireless going. First step was to run an ethernet cable to it so I could do the apt-get thing as well as getting to the Ubuntu site with the instructions. 😉

First page was WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx – Community Ubuntu Documentation which told me to:

In a terminal, type lspci , which lists the PCI devices in your system. Mine is the same as the example and this will be a new install so next page was WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper – Community Ubuntu Documentation.

Since this is a new install I skipped down to section 1.2.2 Obtaining the firmware.
It told me to enable the Universe repository and after following the links I did that. Next up was again in the terminal and was:

sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter which gets the package needed. Then taking the easy way out and using the script:

sudo /usr/share/bcm43xx-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh When it quits doing its thing we’re ready to setup the wireless card.

First up is to load it in the kernel: sudo modprobe bcm43xx then check to see what it was loaded as with iwconfig. Should be eth1.

Then see if you can scan the network: sudo iwlist ethX scan and then you get to pick and choose and restart till the damn thing works on reboot.

Not there yet but close.  I still have to start the network manager and choose the wifi card as the network device but it IS able to find it and load it.  So closer and closer.

Downloaded and installed the KDE base packages and am now back with my perfered desktop.  Bit more tweeking and then to try to get my years of mail moved over…