My weekend was amazingly productive. Yesterday I got a bit of cleaning done, but spent most of my day at the computer. Doing various updates to websites I maintain, catching up with emails that I had neglected (my inbox is almost empty!). I got caught up with blogs and news sites. I worked with to […]
Archive for March, 2007
My wireless card and Ubuntu upgrade
March 11th, 2007 by pleia2
Before you get bored and stop reading, does anyone have a PCMCIA Wireless card they know works in Linux that they can sell to me? I don’t want model names in comments, I don’t want “Just get one with $chipset” – that’s how I ended up with my wonky wireless card that has mysterious firmware […]
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Reasons I hate MySpace #1
March 4th, 2007 by pleia2
The users are primarily idiots who have no respect for others on the web. It was over a year ago that I realized most of my image bandwidth was going to people posting my images on myspace pages, so I wrote some apache rewrite rules. I then neglected to recheck these rules and was disappointed […]
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Cats, curtains, and radio
March 4th, 2007 by pleia2
After work on Friday the cats went to the vet. True to cat form, they acted the complete opposite from how they act at home. Caligula was behaving badly, hissing, growling, showing teeth. Simcoe was the picture of a good kitty at the vet. The only recommendation was that Caligula lose about a half a […]
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Beer Shipment
March 3rd, 2007 by pleia2
Last month and gave us the gift of a three month membership to the Amazing Clubs: Beer of the Month Club (you two rock!). I was excited about this, but skeptical about the quailty. Were they going to ship us a box of lagers? Would this be real microbrews or some lousy microbrew attempt from […]
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Ubuntu and other projects
March 3rd, 2007 by pleia2
I haven’t been making real updates lately. This is a mix of being busy and just not feeling like it. Mostly not feeling like it. So Ubuntu. In November I finally made the leap, replacing Debian Etch with Xubuntu Edgy on my primary workstation. Of course being so used to the older stuff in Etch […]
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