Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
So my broadband connectivity has really sucked the last few days. I think it’s because I have snow on the transceiver. It seems to be working just fine now, so the site should be better. Either that or SprintBroadband has got issues. I also managed…
Apparently I’ve got problems when using the WCF12 and the Zaurus. At first I thought that it was just my problem, but another person seems to have the same problem. After inserting the card, about 5 minutes later it will just magically stop working. If…
So rather than utilize a junk windows PC for my computer for research, I have been allocated a SunBlade 100, not a bad computer at all. The problem is that I need USB network device driver support for it. Solaris doesn’t cut it. So I…
It’s a good thing that I live in an area where not that many people have computers. I doubt that anyone above or below me has a wireless keyboard. My neighbors are old folks who probably don’t have a computer. But in Norway, well there…
I’m glad that I started using the MySQL stuff for movable type. I just wrote snippet of code that selects the five most recent entries from my blog and produces links for them. Here is the code (where it’s assumed $GLOBALS[“dbh”] is a handle to…
For a long time I was a bit of a MySQL bigot. I preferred to use PostgreSQL because it had some more advanced support built in for things like transactions. Well, the conversion back to MySQL has been pretty nice. I just found out about…
I’m sure most people by now have heard of the evils of the RIAA and how Hillary Rosen is just plain misguided about technology. Apparently at a conference in Cannes, France, Ms. Rosen suggested that there be a surcharge for people who utilize peer to…
So, after the fiasco with ecollege.com I decided to look up how to change my browsers user-agent (I use galeon). Here is how you do it (take from the Galeon Faq): To get the current user agent type: gconftool -g /apps/galeon/Advanced/Network/user_agent To set a user…
Okay, so I tried to contact these people and the addresses bounced, go figure. Here is the followup email that I just sent to their techsupport and evaluation@iit.edu. This is a followup to a phone call I just had with your technical support people. The…
The IIT Course Evaluation Site does not currently support Mozilla. Let them know that you use Mozilla and would like it to be supported. Email evaluation@iit.edu and techsupport@realed.com and ask them to support Mozilla based browsers. Here is the email that I just sent. As…