Curse you Dosbox!
As never seems to fail, I broke down and started to play video games again. This time I was feeling a little retro, so out came dosbox and some old school games that I actually own:
Writing
Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Spam-B-Gone with CRM114
For the last year or so I’ve been quite happy with the results that Spam Assassin was able to give me when filtering my email. Lately I’ve been getting a little disappointed with it’s performance, I could upgrade to a new version, or I could…
Connecting to CMU's VPN in Linux
Odd’s are this article will be applicable to approximately 0 readers of my blog, but hopefully Google will catch it and someone else may find it helpful in the future. Here is the situation, CMU has access to a wide variety of online information sources…
First Fedora Impressions
I just installed fedora on my laptop and it wasn’t as painless as advertised. Initially I had thought that I could just do a simple upgrade from my old RedHat 9 installation, but I ran into some serious snags. The install procedure progressed just fine…
Bittorrent On A Slow DSL Line
Today the new release of fedora came out. Like any good sensible people, rather than getting slashdotted, they put up some bittorrent releases for people to download. Anyway, so while I was at school today I was getting 400k/s on both the upstream and downstream…
XSLTRenderer Now Uses libxslt
I’ve hacked together code so the XSLTRenderer plugin can now use libxslt to do the transformations on the server side. This should be more efficient than shelling out to xsltproc all the time. If I hack away on modpython stuff tomorrow then I might see…
Full Month Names in pyBlosxom
This is a little patch that will give you the ability to get the full month name of an entry in pyBlosxom. This is especially useful if you don’t like abbreviations (like myself). This creates two new variables you can use in your templates, $month…
XMLCategories pyBlosxom Plugin
In the spirit of making every damn thing on this site XML, I went through and translated the category plugin into XML spitting out fun. It’s not quite perfect yet as it doesn’t nest XML elements, but it works well enough to generate a simple…
Hiding Pyblosxom with Mod_rewrite
One of the more interesting things about pyblosxom is that it’s all based off a single URL and data is passed to it in the form of a path rather than all on the hook. Anyway, this means that unless you want a nasty looking…
Enabling DRI on a Thinkpad A31
As part of my program here I’ve got an IBM Thinkpad A31. In general it’s a pretty nice little system, it’s got a few issues that I’ll try to document here and how I’ve managed to get around them in hopes that this information can…