You can download the Redhat 9 bitlbee 0.83 RPM

Some crazy person is managing to use Gnu m4 as a CGI type language. Weird. Apparently they never heard of PHP or ASP.

I managed to update the about page with an asinine number of new mp3s. Including a jam session with the famous Bumper playing the Miles Davis classic So What.

I managed to take down my gallery at marshal.frognet.net today. I did this mostly because of some rude and unnecessary comments posted to the galleries. You can mostly thank 24.153.194.168 aka rrcs-sw-24-153-194-168.biz.rr.com for being an idiot. Way to be! I have a private gallery now running on another server that I share my with my family and friends now.

Micros~1 has come up with a handy-dandy guide on how to remove Linux from your hard drive and install a “real” operating system. All the details are spelled out in this Knowledge Base article which is suprisingly agnostic. I don’t in any way condone following this guide unless you are on heavy medication though. I just post it here to fuel my dreams of having involution.com become a low rent version of Slashdot.

I just did a search on google tonight for some mp3s by searching apache indexes like this: “parent directory index of last modified your_artist_here mp3″. You’d be surprised how many indexes come up that are still fully functioning.

BJ Golding is my hero. He made this swanky video by piecing together like 40 small 15 second clips of random practices and such taken with my Canon S200 camera.

Reap the whirlwind sheriff, REAP IT! OK, and here’s the 0.8.8 rpm:

For about 5 years, hard disk manufacturers were able to double the amount of data that could be stored in a consumer 3.5″ drive. This phenomenon has seemed to come to a grinding halt on January 2003. Consider the following:

1996:  5  GB: $300
1997: 10  GB: $300
1998: 20  GB: $300
1999: 40  GB: $300
2000: 80  GB: $300
2001: 160 GB: $300
2002: 200 GB: $300
2003: 300 GB: $300

Maxtor actually announced a 320 GB drive in November 2002. They eventually came to market with a 300 GB drive sometime late this summer. Even today, the external 300 GB drives are still very difficult to get a hold of in the channel.

Technically, we should probably have affordable 1 TB drives by now. I think perhaps some of the problem is that many companies now want to follow the Dell model. The top management must think, “Let someone else do all the R&D, and we’ll sell services and solutions with Intellectual Property developed in other countries and companies at a fraction of the cost. So, now there’s less competition in the R&D space due to consolidation and outsourcing.

I managed to produce a whole cadre of RPMs to update Redhat 9 to PHP 4.3.4 and Apache 2.0.48. In addition, I created a short guide on how to install these RPMs to RPM upgrade your Redhat 9 box to the latest SRPM builds produced by built on my Lunix machine. The article is here and the rpms are here.