Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
I’ve decided to start working on Priblog again. Basically I’m getting sick of how utterly slow Pyblosxom becomes under load. I still like Pyblosxom more than I like solutions such as MovableType or WordPress. But it’s not optimal when you’re running your server on a…
I’m pleased to say that Mono.ReadLine now has a page on SourceForge and also has a record on FreshMeat. I guess this means that my little repackaging is now officially submitted to the open source world. If I get a chance I’ll make a record…
So I’ve got plans for a larger scale social network analysis tool in my future, however for right now, I need to get some of the groundwork laid. I realize that some of the key components of such a tool are going to be IronPython,…
Anyone know of a reason why GCC would sometimes crash my computer while compiling? More specifically, it seems related to large projects. I had the problem several times while compiling Gentoo over the weekend (one of the major factors that made me go back to…
Run for your lives! Apparently Cat Stevens is such a dangerous terrorist that the flight he was on from London to Washington, D.C. diverted because he was on the terroist watch list. Here is the kicker, they didn’t notice he was on the watch list…
I sacrificed the good part of my weekend getting Gentoo going on my computer only to boot it. I realized that I don’t have the time for such a commitment. It’s like buying a nice house, you need to keep it up. I’d rather get…
I decided to finally reinstall the Myth box yesterday. I found out some pretty valuable things. First, a lot of the problems with the box can be attributed to the motherboard not liking the large amounts of DMA transfers the WinTV PVR 250 does. I’ll…
Once again I got distracted, imagine that. So you might know that I’ve been interested in a lot of the things that the Semantic Web has to offer. In particular is the use of MetaData, such as RDF, to describe documents. This is actually a…
I’ve recently had the need to start using encryption again. I’ve had my current encryption key since 2001, but never really had the need for anyone to sign it. So, anyone out there want to sign my key? Then I can feel like the cool…
I haven’t done anything to really upgrade my computer in the last three years. With one notable exception, I purchased a WinTV-PVR 250 card from Hauppauge last may and installed MythTV, which at the time had just gotten suport for the hardware MPEG-2 encoder on…