Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Kristina and I just bought a digital camera. It’s not a wonderful one, but it’s a pretty nice Canon PowerShot A75. Good enough resolution, takes the ubiquitous AA batteries and stores the photos on Compact Flash cards, which are nice and cheap. However, there is…
It’s occassionally useful to have the ability to apply the Rot13 algorithm to a block of text on a web page. Well, luckily because you can use javascript bookmarks in Mozilla you can. There are two simple ways to get this functionality either drag and…
Today slashdot had a link to Chuck Jones’ web page. I visited the page and found the following copyright notice at the bottom: The information on this site is Copyright 1996-2004 Linda Jones Enterprises, Inc. This site is solely for your personal use. You may…
I just wasted three hours of my life debugging some C# code because what should have been public class RandomString was only marked as class RandomString. This meant it worked fine when it was linked into the main program, but didn’t like being in a…
Dive Into Mark has a good article that describes accurately one of the main reasons why I run PyBlosxom.
I finally got around to fixing some long standing problems with my computer today. First among them was the problem that I had been having with the following errors for the last four or five years: Mar 03 08:21:35 dreams kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {…
I came to the realization that the current user interface will not be suitable for what I want it to do. Also, the entire project had become spaghetti code becuase of using GLADE for everything. So with that being said, I started over on writing…
So last night I got distracted and started playing with rendezvous, but the library I was using didn’t work under OpenBSD, so I started to hack at it to get it to work, and I got almost there, but was having problems with a dead…
Fedora ships with a lot of nice security patches which make the system more secure, at least in theory. But the problem is that when running apps under Wine, a lot of them will die because they have a hard coded location to start their…
I don’t really need to write much to explain this piece of spam. It’s just sorta strange. Maybe someone will see it as a message from God. For me it’s just something that CRM gave a score of -20 to, so it’s spam. From %rnd_word@erols.com…