I capped a 3 minute video of me playing with the boys from Gravity Test here:

• http://www.gravitytest.com/ibd.wmv

I managed to pass the RHCE on Friday March 12. It was a lot fun taking the class and filling in the random gaps in my knowledge.

In other news, I wrote another little article about some of the drummers to whom I enjoy listening.

I had a conversation with some 1337 Austin h4×0rs about how to build some type of contraption to sync an analog battery powered wall clock to an ntp server like time.nist.gov automatically using an assorted cadre of googaws and doodads. It’s not really an article, but a long drawn out chat transcript here.

• http://bitlbee.involution.com/bitlbee-0.85a-hoyhoy.rh9.i386.rpm

Involution.com is receiving what appears to be a DoS attack from

host-24-225-153-16.patmedia.net

. I’ve contacted my provider and patmedia.net to attempt to stop this.

I just updated the about page with some new gigs. Ted Smith, my old EE buddy from OhioU emailed me tonight and got on me for slacking off on involution.com. So, I needed to add something.

Is there anything wrong mshtml.dll? I don’t really think so (outside of the infinite security fixes). At any rate, I’ve been experimenting around with different browsers on Windows recently. I’ve tried Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera. I read about
MyIE2 on the The Inquirer today. So, I decided to have a go of it, and I was really just amazed at the quality of this. Essentially MyIE2 is Microsoft’s HTML renderer rapped around a slick interface incorporating ideas from Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera. In addition to all the cool stuff in the interface, MyIE2 provides additional advertisement-bustin functionality. Using MyIE2 Ad-Hunter with Proximitron is absolutely divine. I haven’t seen a pop-up in about 3 years as a result of Proximitron, but with Ad Hunter + Proximitron, this takes webvertisements to an all time low.

15397 unique IPs visited involution.com in during the 29 days of February 2004 consuming 2.11 GB of intraweb bandwidth. I’m permitted to use 10 GB per month from my provider. I started tracking involution.com’s access_log with awstats in April 2002. I produced an updated copy of my famous traffic.png plot to show the number of visitors (unique) each month.

I’m always meandering about compiling various nifty toys for Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1, however, if that’s not enough to wet your whistle, you should use the mega uber repos of Redhat 9 and FC1 RPMs:

DAG, is an IBMer from Belgium that maintains a grande archive of tools and such here:

• http://dag.wieers.com/packages/

The old standby archive is freshrpms. The RPMs there have only been occasionally useful to me though. I must admit, I did use their alsa-lib rpm to get xmms 1.2.10 to go on Fedora Core 1 the other day.

• http://freshrpms.net

I managed to compile the xmms 1.2.10 rpms here:

• rpm.involution.com/xmms