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September 30, 2005
Linucon, the combination Linux and Science Fiction Expo, kicks off today at 3:00 PM in the Austin, TX Ambassador Hotel. Eric S. Raymond and John Quarterman will be speaking, and, if that’s not enough, we’ll be making batches ice cream using Liquid Nitrogen. See the schedule for a full list of talks, events, and times.
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September 28, 2005
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I managed to run the entire Emma Long Motor/Mountain Bike Trail yesterday morning at 7 o’clock in the A.M with the famous Eric Holbrook. It’s a new experience for me getting up that early. I rather enjoyed it though as absolutely no one was up at that obscene hour. The total distance was exactly 5.00 miles according to Garmin Forerunner, but as you all know it’s rather difficult to determine a precise distance measurement when the route is sufficiently windy. |
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September 28, 2005
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I found the three bugs with the Linucon Wordpress site this morning. First, some JavaScript countdown code wasn’t really working correctly on IE (it worked fine on Firefox). So, I ported it to PHP. Then, some comment form textarea was borking my column width on all the commentable pages. For some reason, Internet Explorer thought it a good idea to expand the column width when textarea cols was set to 100%. I fixed that by enforcing a static cols value for the textarea. Then, the biggest problem of all was that Internet Explorer < = 5.0 was causing navigation problems on undefined JavaScript mouseover that inadvertently got copied into my wordpress theme.. |
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September 25, 2005
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And, here’s a gallery from Emma Long City Park’s Turkey Creek Trail. I managed to snap a macro shot of a little frog and a snake heedlessly slithering through the grass. A pretty good 2.75 mile trail if you ask me, and it’s like right across the street from my apartment. |
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September 25, 2005
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I just put up a gallery of pics from Brushy Creek Park in Round Rock. |
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September 25, 2005
One time, 
nugget said, Apache is great except for when it isn’t. As such, I spent about 3 hours yesterday trying to make mod_autoindex play with php scripts. Eventually, I pieced together about three emails and found out that I had to apply the following foo to my httpd.conf to make it work.
<Directory "/path/to/rpms">
AllowOverride Options FileInfo Indexes
Options +Indexes
AddType text/html .php
AddHandler php-script .php
IndexOptions +SuppressHTMLPreamble
HeaderName /HEADER.php
ReadmeName /FOOTER.php
IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* FOOTER*
</Directory>
This basically makes the rpm directory (and its subdirectories) use HEADER.php as the header and FOOTER.php as the footer which Apache strangely calls ReadmeName for some bizarre reason. The original impetus for this foo was nugget’s stuff directory and Dag’s RPM warehouse.
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September 24, 2005
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I decided to be a little bit more organized with RPMs the other day, and I added some custom dns foo to index what was what. I also quietly added bitlbee.involution.com which is a pointer to the bitlbee rpms that I compile on whatever Linux distro I happen to be running at the time. At any rate, today, I installed Fedora Core 4 on VMWare, and compiled my newest patched Bitlbee RPM on there, and my on Red Hat RHEL4 server in Ohio. Wilmer has since updated http://bitlbee.org to point to my new repository. Have fun kids. |
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September 22, 2005
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Well, Ivo managed to produce some awesome Hurricane Rita imagery using Google Maps, the NOAA web site, and his mad computer skills. I sent Ivo’s link over to Phillip Torrone who writes for Popular Science and runs the Makezine Blog. He posted them to their blog, and then, apparently, they ended up on television in Canada. Also, I’ve been mirroring them, and other stuff in my gallery today. Ivo just posted his gallery as well. Also, I will also be adding digital pictures from Austin if we are affected.
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September 17, 2005
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| After 45 consecutive days without a gallery update, I managed to pootle some pictures from my trip last week to Poughkeepsie, NY onto the gallery. Also of note, this Gallery is #100. |
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September 17, 2005
I just organized all of my rpms that were on uberh4×0r, and placed them all in a semi-organized folder struction on hudge. I also associated an appropriate mime-type icon for the rpm file type as well (why hasn’t Red Hat done this already!?). You can inflict your self with some rpm love here:
http://rpm.involution.com.
Also, I was at a conference all this week in Poughkeepsie, New York. I talked to an IBM c4eb (IBM’s distro) user there and he says that most of these Red Hat 9 RPMs seem to work on the c4eb as well. So, there still is some use in compiling these old Red Hat 9 rpms…
In addition to rpm.involution.com, I made bitlbee.involution.com which points to all of my bitlbee builds, including the one supporting Google Talk and all of the Hanji patches.
