Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
When it comes to freedom, there are several levels of software out there. At the most difficult level is subscriptionware. This covers packages like SAS, a very powerful statistical analysis package. These tools typically cost thousands of dollars and require a new license to be…
In my previous post on setting up Tracks and Ruby on Rails to run behind an Apache proxy, there was a bit of symlink hokerey hat one had to do to make it serve the static content properly. What if we didn’t have to do that?…
Like most geeks, I suffer from a profound lack of an ability to get things done. I’ve read a lot of the stuff on 43 folders and even thought about trying a few, but never really got around to it. Yes, I’m that bad at…
Today was the day for my yearly homepage update. The full diff of which appears below. For more history see this previous post :::diff --- index.xml (revision 230) +++ index.xml (working copy) @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <my:infobox title="A Little About Me" minheight="255"> <p> <img src="resources/images/me.jpg"…
Today, more than two years after I started work on a gallery program, I finally have something that is workable and presentable. No, I did not spend the last two years working on this software. In fact, it’s been almost entirely written since I got…
I finally got off my duff and obtained a GNOME CVS account. Also, Cesar made me the bugzilla maintainer for the project. Over the next few days, I’ll be merging my code back into the GNOME CVS repository (or GNOME Subversion repository when it gets…
A few weeks ago I served as an election judge for Allegheny County. Today, four weeks after that election, the results have finally been certified. I’m a little worried that they claim they were finding misplaced ballots, but it’s not that surprising, all things considered.…
To my loyal reader (or perhaps readers, who knows) – you probably noticed some issued with the accessibility of this site over the past few days. It seems like two different things were conspiring to take down my site. The first is that my uplink…
Ah yes, spring time in Pittsburgh. That wonderful time of the year when you leave the windows open, enjoy walks in the park, and get excited because baseball is now well under way. Well, most years this happens – just not this year – a…
Apparently some of my original emails to Cesar, the author of MCatalog got lost in transit, or his replies did, or something. Anyway, after my requests, Cesar asked if I would like to maintain MCatalog, I agreed to the task. So that will make my…