I added umpteen plus one screenshots to my Screen Shots page.

I managed to track down a pretty snazzy colorizer called grc that works with linux syslogd.

A few sites on the Interweb are starting to complain that ad-blocking software is seriously hurting their revenue stream. One computing enthusiast site suggested that less than 8% of the people were viewing their ads. Personally, I think having innocuous ads to pay for the bandwidth is OK, however, in the past 2 years, the advertising has gotten increasingly distracting and annoying. Normal people like me, who were tolerant of the advertisements up until about 2000, started to take action by installing software like Proximitron. I think the advent of pop-ups, pop-unders, Macromedia Flash, and animated gif advertisements is what pushed me to take action. I recall going to Yahoo! one day and being invaded by some Flash advertisement with accompanying music, and decided I had enough.

If you can’t afford to pay for your Web site’s bandwidth usage, how about axing of some of the graphics and installing mod_gz? That ought to take it down about 80%. I don’t see how a webmaster can complain about blocking pop-ups and ads. If you don’t like it, figure out how to defeat the blocking software. Don’t blame your readers for _not_ being dumb.

Involution.com contains no advertisements whatsoever and is viewed by over 10,000 unique IP adresses from over 30 countries every month which consumes a little over 1 GB of bandwidth.

I managed to add a couple of banners to my banner archive. I may even use one of them one day.

Involution.com was down for a short period today. No clue as to why it went down, but I think my provider may have had some security issues.

Blargh! Apparently Omnis’s servers lost this post from earlier.

Most people know that I love to see how many pixels that I can get on my desktop. At work I’m running at 3200×1200 between two IBM P260 Monitors, and at home I run 2048×1536 on a Sony G520.

The Viewsonic VP2290b basically rules the roost right now. This LCD is based on the IBM QXGA technology that’s been available since 1998 in the form of the proof-of-concept T220 LCD. The price has dropped from $22000 to around $7000 now. ATI’s FireGL and Radeon 8500/9700-based cards now support driving the max resolution of 3840×2400 on this beast. The FireGL card even has a binary driver available for XFree86. In approximately 4 or 5 years, I think this will be within reach for a high-end consumer workstation.

The 20.8-inch IBM T210 is a little less impressive than the Viewsonic V2990b as it’s max resolution is 2048×1536, but it can be had for nearly half the price. Another good thing about running at a standard resolution is that you can just add one of these along with a $600 CRT to produce a desktop area of 4096×1536.

I wrote another article today about how to fix the rpm package when you get a “Cannot handle file ‘libc.so.6′ with TLS data” error.