Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
I just noticed another interesting Bloglines problem. Apparently BlogLines doesn’t properly handly article updating as it should. This means that if it fetches my mythTorrent feed while a show is recording then it will include the show twice, adding it again after the show is…
Apparently my RSS feed is sick. I’m not quite sure why. There are two major ways that this sickness is showing itself. Firstly, it’s not putting spaces around links on BlogLines. This was pointed out by a helpful reader and it appears to be doing…
I’ve had my MGA G400-MAX dual head video card since I built my current desktop computer back in April of 2000. I’ve used the second head for xinerama and dual monitor work in the past, it always worked pretty nicely. I sold the second monitor…
It’s spring break so I decided I would play a few video games. I’ve got a bunch of the old Linux ports of games from LokiGames (which went bankrupt in a mess of supposed lies and missed payments in January, 2002). Unfortunately, these games need…
Last night Kristina and I went out with a group of folks from school to the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center and hung out with the Pittburgh Curling Club. It was different to say the least. I think every one of us fell down…
The title about sums it up. Apparently Ubuntu is being bit in the ass by a rather nasty NFS server bug that prevents writing to the NFS drives. It just creates 0 byte files. Well, not exactly. I realized that when my laptop (2GHz) is…
Now that my system has some reasonable hard drive, I’ve been working on other bells and whistles with MythTV. After the 0.17 upgrade I found that my remote no longer worked, mainly because I forgot to tell Myth to compile with LIRC support. I decided…
Mark Cuban takes a lot of crap from people for being a little out there. He reminds me a bit of Howard Dean, he’s doing things to shake people up and get them off their comfortable asses. He’s not only the owner of the Dallas…
I found out that I passed both parts of my qualifier at “well above the Ph.D. level.” This means that I need to get new business cards that read Ph.D. candidate. In general, the qualifier is biggest hurdle in getting a Ph.D. Next up is…
I’m not sure if Dave is going to post my response to interesting people, but I figured that I’d post it here. I don’t like how Googlebashing seems to be the in thing. I happen to like Google. Their autolink feature of their toolbar is…