Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
After seeing Edd Dumbill’s raving reviews of Skype I decided to check it out. Unfortunately, I don’t have anyone to call on it. I can vouch for the fact that it does indeed start up on my computer. I should try installing it on Kristina’s…
Well, the van is dead. It proved to be a good vehicle and had a good life. In the end it just couldn’t keep up, and in the words of my Dad, I was supposed to “shoot it and put it out of it’s misery”.…
One of the more interesting things about living in Pittsburgh is that we’re a lot closer to the coast and mountains (or hills, or bumps, whatever you call the Appalachians) and as such we get weather from the coasts. Last year I had to try…
Like most people, I find how both parties are using September 11th as a political device morally apalling. I also find the purple heart stickers that republican delegates are wearing a disgrace and shameful. But back to the main topic. The New York Times has…
Hot on the heels of me starting to use Log4Net in OSSim, comes my first code addition to the project. The original ColoredConsoleAppender only works on Windows because it calls Win32 APIs. I don’t really like that fact because I use Mono under Linux. However,…
I’ve decided that finally need a nice logging framework in place for OSSim. Without it, it’s going to be hard to track down what is going on in the application. Being as it’s written in C# I’ve decided to use log4net. Which seems all nice,…
For some reason I got an uncontrollable urge to force OSSim to use autoconf, automake, and assorted friends. It’s kinda nice knowing that I know have a real set of make files for the project. Unfortunately, it still is written in C# which means I’m…
So rather than doing work today, I decided to write a nice little tutorial on how to use PyGTKMoz. It is basically a mirror of Erik Dasque’s similar C# tutorial. But that was only half the fun. In true overkill style I felt that I…
Last week, Kenneth decided to try and coin a new term, “Luddition Through Economics”. Such a term basically means that someone is a luddite because they don’t have the money to not be one. I guess that describes me fairly well. Well, actually, it was…
Today the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, which serves the western 1/5th of America, begins work on Gilmore vs Ashcroft. A brief summary is in order. John Gilmore made millions as one of the original programmers at SUN. He has since retired and become a…