Voodoo Logic D9C

better privacy add-on breaks delicious bookmarks. A fix

2009-12-23T16:05:00.000-08:00

If you've tried the better privacy add-on for firefox and you have a delicious account, you'll find it breaks your cookies that log you in to your delicious account. Even after you've uninstalled the plugin - it still breaks delicious.

The easy fix. After uninstalling the better privacy add-on, in your address bar type about:config. click the button to say, "ok, I won't break anything." Next, in the filter bar at he top, type in delicious. you'll find a line that says:

extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.delicious.logout.status

change this value to "keep" without quotes.

done!

Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?

2009-11-19T16:57:00.000-08:00

Submitted by comandergood on June 8, 2006 - 7:06am

(copied from Stephthegeek)
Questions and Answers about Foreign Policy (and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq)

Q:Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A:Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
Q:But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A:That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q:And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A:Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q:But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A:That's because the weapons are so well hidden. Don't worry, we'll find something, probably right before the 2004 election.
Q:Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A:To use them in a war, silly.
Q:I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A:Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q:That doesn't make sense. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons with which they could have fought back?
A:It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.
Q:I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A:Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.
Q:And what was that?
A:Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.
Q:Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A:Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q:Kind of like what they do in China?
A:Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.
Q:So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A:Right.
Q:Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A:For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q:Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A:I told you, China is different.
Q:What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A:Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.
Q:Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A:No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q:How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A:Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q:Like in Iraq?
A:Exactly.
Q:And like in China, too?
A:I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q:How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A:Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us.
Q:But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A:Don't be a smart-ass.
Q:I didn't think I was being one.
A:Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of religion in Cuba.
Q:Kind of like China and the Falun Gong movement?
A:I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.
Q:What's a military coup?
A:That's when a military general takes over the government of a country by force, instead of holding free elections like we do in the United States.
Q:Didn't the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a military coup?
A:You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he did, but Pakistan is our friend.
Q:Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is illegitimate?
A:I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.
Q:Didn't you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A:Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.
Q:Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A:Because of what they did to us on September 11th.
Q:What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A:Well, on September 11th, nineteen men - fifteen of them Saudi Arabians - hijacked four airplanes and flew three of them into buildings in New York and Washington, killing 3,000 innocent people.
Q:So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A:Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban.
Q:Aren't the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who chopped off people's heads and hands?
A:Yes, that's exactly who they were. Not only did they chop off people's heads and hands, but they oppressed women, too.
Q:Didn't the Bush administration give the Taliban 43 million dollars back in May of 2001?
A:Yes, but that money was a reward because they did such a good job fighting drugs.
Q:Fighting drugs?
A:Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping people from growing opium poppies.
Q:How did they do such a good job?
A:Simple. If people were caught growing opium poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads cut off.
Q:So, when the Taliban cut off people's heads and hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if they cut people's heads and hands off for other reasons?
A:Yes. It's OK with us if radical Islamic fundamentalists cut off people's hands for growing flowers, but it's cruel if they cut off people's hands for stealing bread.
Q:Don't they also cut off people's hands and heads in Saudi Arabia?
A:That's different. Afghanistan was ruled by a tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not comply.
Q:Don't Saudi women have to wear burqas in public, too?
A:No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic body covering.
Q:What's the difference?
A:The traditional Islamic covering worn by Saudi women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers.
Q:It sounds like the same thing with a different name.
A:Now, don't go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.
Q:But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A:Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.
Q:Who trained them?
A:A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.
Q:Was he from Afghanistan?
A:Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a bad man, a very bad man.
Q:I seem to recall he was our friend once.
A:Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Q:Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A:There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke up in 1990 or thereabouts, and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.
Q:So the Soviets - I mean, the Russians - are now our friends?
A:Well, not really. You see, they were our friends for many years after they stopped being Soviets, but then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq, so we're mad at them now. We're also mad at the French and the Germans because they didn't help us invade Iraq either.
Q:So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A:Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.
Q:Do we always rename foods whenever another country doesn't do what we want them to do?
A:No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we invade.
Q:But wasn't Iraq one of our friends back in the 1980s?
A:Well, yeah. For a while.
Q:Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A:Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran, which made him our friend, temporarily.
Q:Why did that make him our friend?
A:Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.
Q:Isn't that when he gassed the Kurds?
A:Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his friend.
Q:So anyone who fights against one of our enemies automatically becomes our friend?
A:Most of the time, yes.
Q:And anyone who fights against one of our friends is automatically an enemy?
A:Sometimes that's true, too. However, if American corporations can profit by selling weapons to both sides at the same time, all the better.
Q:Why?
A:Because war is good for the economy, which means war is good for America. Also, since God is on America's side, anyone who opposes war is a godless unAmerican Communist. Do you understand now why we attacked Iraq?
Q:I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us to, right?
A:Yes.
Q:But how did we know God wanted us to attack Iraq?
A:Well, you see, God personally speaks to George W. Bush and tells him what to do.
Q:So basically, what you're saying is that we attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices in his head?
A:Yes! You finally understand how the world works. Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go to sleep. Good night.
Q:Good night, Daddy.
2003 anarchie bunker

Geek 2.0

2009-09-08T17:20:00.001-07:00

I think they missed the mark. I know geek is becoming cool, but something has got to differentiate true geeks from geek chic.

really, anyone?

D9C

Wordpress permission tip: b4 uploading to server

2009-09-06T14:37:00.000-07:00

Here's a great tip for Wordpress users who have a linux server. To help from becoming hacked, your files and folders need to have certain permissions so that they can't be edited without your knowledge.

In order to set your permissions, some may instinctively choose an FTP client. This is ridiculously harder than it needs to be. I've found the easiest way is to use two shell commands: find and chmod.

I setup my wordpress files by Installing XAMPP, that way I have a nice environment (localhost) to test, edit, and tweak my webpage. I don't have to worry about somebody messing with my files.

When it was time to migrate my wordpress to my host, I want to change the file and folder permissions to what is prescribed by Wordpress. There are over 4,000 files in several directories, a daunting task for an FTP program -- but not for the command line!

In the command line:
chmod -R 755 /your/directory/

will change the permission of all files "recursively" (it will drill down into the sub-directories). Depending on if you own the file, you may need to run sudo in front of this command (sudo chmod...)

Every file and folder will have the permission setting of 755. This is only half the trick.

Next we are going to make all the files 644.

The following will recursively search your directory tree (starting at the current directory) and chmod 644 all files only:

find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

After I've run these commands, I can then upload them to my hosting site with all the correct permissions. Or, if you ssh'd into your server, you're already done. Compare that to an hour or two of mouse clicking or having a hackable webpage. >_<

As I write this, I tried to upgrade my 1and1 hosting plan to "business" so that I could ssh in to my server and tinker using the command line. But alas, they are closed for the holiday.

D9C

64bit native flash driver ubuntu linux

2009-08-17T18:20:00.001-07:00

Adobe fixed a bug I was tracking and released an update to their 64bit native flash for Linux. I've updated the code located on a very useful post to give you this bash script. Open up your favorite text editor and paste the contents below. Save the file and (from the command line) use chmod +x to make it executable. After that, execute the file with: ./yourfilename


#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# ...then adapted for latest version of 64 bit flash by voodoologic
# headley.douglas@gmail.com

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper


echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

You can now restart firefox.

Truth of the matter is that the this version of flash still doesn't work, I'm sure it works better for some applications and is more secure. But as I type this I still can't play the song I want to hear on imeem.com.

D9C

Rugby Live from Treasure Island

2009-08-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

I am producing the ustream.tv broadcast of the Women's National Rugby 7's Invitational.

Video chat rooms at Ustream

This project has a shoestring budget. Please tweet the details when twitter comes back from a denial of service attack.

Fanboy & Evangalist Weighs in on Moonlight and Chrome OS

2009-07-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

When I convince a friend to put Ubuntu on their older computer, I inevitably get asked if it can do everything that Windows can do. My response will include, "Yes, except play your Netflix Instant Watch movies."

In Linux adoption, this shortcoming becomes the lynch pin: a good avenue in which to deny Linux a fair shake. Consequently, instead of installing Linux, I endThis process can take days and will still not compare to a clean XP install. I don't start to seriously lament until I am scanning their computer for viruses for the first time since 2004. But, I digress.

Mono, and subsequently Moonlight, represent Linux's pursuit for compatibility. In Battlestar Galactica, Cylon technology was incorporated into human technology; MS and Linux need to wage peace. In the end, the evil Cylons are going to die off. Long live the hybrids!

Speaking of hybrids...

Google Chrome OS is going to flip the industry on it's head. It's has the business leverage of Microsoft with the glory that is open source. I predict the OS will become the catalyst needed to get hardware companies to make open source drivers. Who knows, maybe retail games will jump on board.

Until Microsoft ports their DRM stacks over to Linux, I'm just going to wait and watch Netflix Instant Watch with an XBMC hack. But, for the group of people who want Ubuntu to "just work," mono development seems to be the path to integration: dark and stormy as it may be.

If R2D2 can't plug into the Deathstar's computer mainframe, we all lose.

D9C

Thieves, Dreams, and Dawkins

2009-06-26T00:13:00.000-07:00

My Weird Day

I went to the store to buy some provisions for my sick girlfriend. While in the produce isle, I spotted a elderly man putting what appeared to be produce in his jacket. In seeking some bullion, I also did some soul searching about my moral obligations.

With some quick typing on my quirty keyboard, I directed the checker to read my note, "I think the guy in the trench coat is stealing" The message was received, I payed for my groceries and left.

After caring for my girlfriend, I managed to purposefully pass by the store without peering in, but noticed a cop car parked in the corner. My walk home was filled with the contemplation of the old man's guilt and the driving force that motivated my reaction.

Later, I passed out for several hours. My dreams centered around having a broken neck and included night paralysis. A four hour affair.

My day ended with fighting with my roommate, cooking chicken noodle soup, then surfing the web. I watched a Richard Dawkins youtube video (my roommate is a rabid fan).

My roommate's description of Dawkins rivals an epiphany of logic. I can see how his thesis on neo-purpose (29:26) makes sense. My actions at the grocery store were morally driven and served a neo-purpose. Dawkins' goes on to say that neo-purpose may be subverted by virtue of it's flexibility.

One can argue the same is true of religion. It provides moral foundation to which people can realize their own neo-purpose in an environment that champions life. Of course, it can be a double-edged sword. Dawkins' decides to fault religion rather than look at it objectively. I regard it as painfully biased and unscientific.

I don't disagree with his model, but he asks that I forsake religion. Why is that necessary? Dawkins' says to me, my way describes life as without purpose. By the way, cast aside your God/religion.

I can prescribe to Dawkins' description of human evolution. However, it does not offer me values, or the fortitude to defend those values. I become the indifferent shopper. I might turn you in if I feel your stealing with change the price of my goods. That's ass-backwards to me.

Obama at White House Correspondents' Dinner - Hulu

2009-05-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

retweet hack - add text to someone's retweet

2009-05-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

I'd like to share how I, a common user, can send hyperlinks that will link to twitter and add text to the input box. I learned this trick by looking at twitter_tips. In the example, the retweet URL will bring the user to their twitter homepage and pre-enter their tweet with the wordage. Take the hyperlink from the example above and input it in longurl.com.

My example:

Twitter the women's sevens tournament

Why would you want to do this.

This can best be summed up as it helps your event or link become "viral."

Three reason you'd want to do this. One, it lowers the barrier to participation. This means rugby players -or anyone- can now promote your event without trying (two clicks). the easier it is, the more likely people are to retweet. and the more likely they retweet, the more your message gets out there.

The second reason is message consistency. You will be controlling the message, linkage and grammar.

Third, most rugby players AREN'T Twitter users, the ones who are, haven't logged onto their account since they heard it mentioned on Jon Stewart. A single hyperlink will bring the user to the loggon screen and place your message in the input box.

If you want to do this to:

type the words you want your twitters to enter on a text editor/word processor.
place this text into this site here (input boxes on the bottom of the page). Now you have the correct syntax.
make a link in your email or tweet or tinyurl that includes your message (from #2) preceded by: http://twitter.com/home?status=
If it's going on twitter, then the link should be shortened. I recommend burnurl.com because it lets you track the clicks and offers options to share.
Use this hyperlink in emails or directly on twitter.

D9C

download and save music from myspace, playlist.com and last.fm

2009-03-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

Rip songs from Myspace, playlist.com, and last.fm -

This is much simpler than any other method I found.
I've been having a lot of fun with this trick for a while. While posting this might eventually lead to more people using it the music distributors catching on, and eventually leading to the demise of this hack- I can't not share it with the people who read my blog.
**for informational purposes only**

Myspace:

What you'll need:

Firefox
Downloadhelper add-on

Once the add-on is installed, visit any Myspace page with music. Play the song that you wish to download. At this point the downloadhelper button will detect the mp3 and start to animate. Next, there is a drop down menu arrow just to the right of the button. Pushing it will reveal the name of the mp3 file. Click on the file and a window will open allowing you to save the song. All the artist and album information are stored in mp3 itself. Still, I recommend renaming the mp3, it will make finding the file from the others you download much easier later on.

Playlist.com
What you'll need:

Firefox
Downloadhelper add-on

This is the exact same approach. but on playlist.com you can locate pretty specific MP3s without all the myspace CRAPPY personalized designs and bloated code to sift through. Good news everyone! Sony has just made all their recording artists available to playlist.com!

Last.fm

What you'll need:

Firefox
Downloadhelper add-on
a Last.fm account
Fire.fm add-on

This technique is a bit more of a hack than the others. While the last.fm library is huge, it has many protections setup to keep downloadhelper from working all the time. When you set up an account fire.fm is a great add-on to Firefox to give you a pandora.com experience, delivering full songs (instead of 30 second snippets) through your browser. It also is easier for downloadhelper to detect the mp3. Just let the music play and hit the download button as soon as you hear a song want to download.

D9C

5 steps to becoming a web 2.0 early adopter

2009-03-06T20:26:00.000-08:00

The VoodooLogic Method to becoming an early adopter:

I feel my method is as bare-bones as in order to surf sites quickly, organize your account credentials, publish and share your findings.

I wrote this because it's become apparent that there are so many applications out there that end users don't need to be techie to create really cool/useful sites. We are digital DJ's, mixing user apps on web pages to rock our audience. All you need is a good sense of style and utility to dive in. And now is a great time to be an early adopter who is well versed in the best the web has to offer. Have fun being a power user and remember, never pay for software.

I am assuming you have plenty of social networks that you enjoy using. If not, you won't really care about Web 2.o.

1. Firefox

Firefox is a highly customizable browser. The additional add-ons help you customize your browsing experience. The best way I've heard Firefox explained is that it is like vanilla ice cream and its add-ons that act like toppings to make the browser a real treat.

2. StumbleUpon- surfing with speed

StumbleUpon is an add-on for Firefox and is the essential key to this post. Based on some initial criteria you set, Stumbleupon will display a random site with a click of a button. It gets rave reviews on the web and with the right settings you can become a guru.

Setup your account and select some interests. Make sure to include web development, Internet tools, and Firefox. Additionally, select humor - because it's funny. :P

That's pretty much all you need. By pressing thumbs up, you direct traffic to those sites you like. While at the office, you can stumble 3 pages in the time it takes to print an average work document. Even the busiest person can passively surf through the bleeding edge of the Internet. This kind of frequency lets you peruse websites quickly and getting to the real web gems. (You can even give this post a thumbs up!!)

3. Keepass

Once you discover a site to try, Keypass is going to help you keep your account user-names and passwords organized.

**But you can't leave it there. You'll need to prove among your friends you know what's cool right now.**

4. Delicious

Set up an account. Next, add the delicious firefox add-on. Now, you aren't just pressing "thumbs up," now you can catalog sites you like into your personal online bookmarking system.

Great, now we've created two layers of bookmarking. Stumbleupon's 'thumbs up' (an RSS feed) and delicisious' bookmarks for when you want to return to a site. The add-on also integrates your browser's bookmarks with your delicious account.

**This is the next layer is going to solidify your reputation of being a someone who's always in the know.**

5. Sharaholic

I really like the sharaholic add-on. make tagging websites your various social networks easy. real easy. This tool give you simple access to your social networks to share your web-app gold.

"As a certified social networking and link-sharing addict, Shareaholic has become my favorite new enabler!"
- Veronica Belmont, Host of Tekzilla on Revision3 and Qore on PSN

This 5 pieces of software are layered by relevance. Firefox being the most critical because it is the platform I built the entire model on.

There are many other ways of familiarizing yourself with the latest technology. For instance, I could tell you to bookmark an RSS feed like Makeuseof.com, this is a very informative site that lets you check out lots of new stuff. However, my strategy incorporates this by bookmarking these feeds in delicious as you stumble them. I would consider this to be another layer of relevancy that is a bit too cumbersome for my bare-bones method.

D9C

Also, be sure to check out Linux as a free desktop solution. I've found it an adequate alternative to Windows XP and Vista for several years now. I'm just waiting for everyone else to catch on to the trend. ;)

Passion and Patience - Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

2009-03-04T12:10:00.000-08:00

Motivating words from the person knows his shit. Now that I'm living the unemployed dream, I'm going to need to refer back to this video get motivated.

But do you know someone else who has got his hustle on: my friend Ethan, http://wsyk.opensermo.com/ Each of these guys are on the same energy wavelengths.

D9C

Jock/Nerd update for February

2009-02-26T12:02:00.001-08:00

Nerd
Well, I'm unemployed and making money under the table helping people with their XP laptops. Tomorrow I help a friend reinstall Windows and I'm anxious to try some new software: Windows Post-Install Wizard.

I used Magicical Jelly Bean to find the lost XP key and a pirated copy of the software get it a legit copy reinstalled. The goal is to make Windows XP work again despite the efforts of well, Windows XP and Microsoft.

BTW, If I hadn't given Majorgeeks.com any props, then I really should now. Everything a newly installed XP system should have can be found there.

Spybot
AVG free
Advanced System Care
Firefox
iTunes
Adobe Flash
Final Burner
Java Runtime 6

Jock
Last Saturday, we beat the highest ranked team in our league - Something the Fog has never done. Our current record is now 2 and 3. With no signs of slowing down, we may be able to pull off a winning season.

My face is just starting to heal from the bruses and cuts from Saturday's win. A memorable point for me was during a ruck, someone on the other team tried to two-handedly twist my ankle. I got to my feet and draged him out of the ruck by his collar. I waited with one fist clenching his jersey and the other hovering over his head for him to strike me first. The ref blew his whistle before he he could connect. No yellow cards were issued and my point was made - Don't f*ck with me.

update: The video size limitations are pushing me to use Google video for our games (4 gigs). While I hate putting all our eggs in one basket, it would appear to be the most practical for me because acidrip/viddler solution gives me a poor quality for exchange of in-line comments that nobody uses. :-(

I'd rather build it myself than pay $$$ for a P.O.S.

2009-02-11T12:10:00.000-08:00

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

So I saw this video today and LMAO. Fortunately for me, I'm banging my head against the wall trying to build my own digital media fucking piece of shit. It's much more rewarding. =)

My links for building your own fucking piece of useless shit.
http://trailfire.com/voodoologic/trails/65902

This project was conceived in June of '08 and is roughly about 20% complete.

D9C

Jock/Nerd update for January

2009-01-25T12:36:00.000-08:00

Jock
Yesterday, the San Francisco Fog won it's first game in over a year and a half. In addition, I can now put Flanker on my resume of positions I can play. I predict that winning will become easier now that we have a taste of victory.

If I want to get more muscle mass, I have to start working out again. Which may not be a bad idea once a week or so in addition to Tuesday and Thursday practice.

I am toying with using viddler.com to host our games online.

I am getting negative feed back from influential people who think posting our game online is a bad idea. First, they think the game videos could be studied and used against us. Second, some feel that the ability to let anyone comment may not be wise. If anyone can comment on the game footage, then good game commentary might get lost among terrible game commentary.

The compromise might be to let only certain people comment on the game and then later releasing the games + commentary to everyone else later. Some level of exclusivity is probably the best route to get a good service adopted. In the end, I feel that the viddler service could help give players access to game footage which is a great tool that The Fog could utilize.

Nerd.
Nerd stuff is going slow. Now that rugby takes up most of my time, I am unable to work on my projects. right now I'm stuck on two points. Making a cat 5 cable and troubleshooting the software that controls my Haupauge 1600 . After these problems are solved, I will need to figure out how to use my modified xbox as a MythTV front-end for my home TV. Also, I purchased a year subscription to Schedules Direct to fill in the names of shows on each of the channels.

Linux has been treating me really well. I'm learning that there is an acceptable amount of bloat that I am willing to tolerate for the eye-candy desktop on my aging computer. I'm running Half-Life 2 very well with Wine and looking forward to beating it and playing the two expansion episodes.

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It's a new day

2009-01-20T08:05:00.000-08:00

What I love about being an American: our collective ability to churn the political unjust out of our system. The pendulum is swinging back towards education and humanity and I am happy today.

One page Linux Manual

2009-01-08T17:16:00.000-08:00

THE ONE PAGE LINUX MANUAL

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Technology eLearning/Online Lea free software

NEW Macbook Wheel

2009-01-08T12:09:00.000-08:00

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Folsom Street Fair 2008

2008-12-30T17:19:00.000-08:00

Here is a collage of me and my former roommate Jessica, built by Picasa 3, from Folsom St. Fair. It is a leather themed street fair of which I was working one of the beer booths for the San Francisco Fog Rugby Club. The photos were taken by Dave, a friend of the club's president.

SantaCon 2008

2008-12-15T08:44:00.000-08:00

A small part of my crazy holiday-party filled weekend.

Tip for efficient username and password organization

2008-12-02T19:06:00.001-08:00

creating a cross-platform database of all the websites you use and then make it accessible from anywhere. This system is nice because you do not have to grab an attached file from a self addressed email every time you want to update your database.

What you will need
Dropbox and keepass.

Dropbox
is a cross platform program that creates a virtual folder that syncs between all of computers. when you move or update files within a dropbox folder it is automatically updated across different platforms

Keepass
you enter your username and passwords (or any other credentials) into a file that is locked by a master password. I've been using if for years and find it much easier than having the website email you a replacement password.

Simply create a keepass file and save it in your dropbox. Get in the habit of entering the passwords and usernames into keepass and you will get access to them wherever you are at your machine(s).

I actually will write down the website in a planner and go back into keepass and update several websites at once. It's hard to believe all the sites I have set up an account with over the years.

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LazyTown featuring Lil Jon

2008-11-30T08:47:00.001-08:00

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Screenshots

2008-11-17T10:26:00.000-08:00

Here are some screen shots from my Ubuntu system

Had problems with the cylinder shape until I enabled the desktop wallpaper in compiz settings manager.

Want this? Start with ubuntu-tweak.

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Changing Icon Themes in Intrepid Ibex

2008-11-16T09:20:00.000-08:00

Changing Icon Themes in Ubuntu: Intrepid Ibex
I been baffled by this since I started using Ubuntu (Dapper Drake).

Using gnome-art to get themes.
In the terminal type:

sudo aptitude install gnome-art

You can find the new menu in System>Preferences>Art Manager

From here, you can download and installing new icons themes.

The other alternative is to visit gnome-look.org and check out and download those themes.

Once you have the file...

System>Preferences>Appearance>Install
Select the downloaded .tar file -

Everything should install without hiccup.

Implementing your new icon theme.
System>Preferences>Appearance - under the theme tab, select a theme that you want to change the icons for, then press Customize - navigate to the icons tab. Select your icon theme and viola!

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