Month: December 2004

sudo rpm -e openoffice.org-i18n Good grief. Also, I cannot begin to tell you how frustrating it is to play the disk space shell game every couple of months and try to free up space here and there so that I can compile a new kernel. DANG I need a laptop hard drive that’s bigger than 30 megs!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas, all!! =:) I have had a wonderful time with my family for the last several days, and am not at all looking forward to going back to the grind. Among other things, my beautiful kids and bride gave me a XXL Old Navy fleece hoodie (VERY warm and snuggly!!), and the new Tobymac CD (also VERY good and snuggly). OH–also, I got a cool little iced-tea maker!! We’ve probably gone through about 8 pitchers of home-made peach iced tea in the last couple of days. =:) So, here’s wishing you and yours a very blessed time with your family. Here’s to hoping you have/take the time to enjoy your family and friends. Here’s wishing Mike and Liz a Read more…

I just saw this $498 linux laptop the other day and thought I’d mention it. That’s a pretty danged inexpensive laptop. =:) All that, and without Bill!! =:)

At some point, in the most probably distant future, someone will stumble upon these ramblings and wonder what sort of maniac would leave such entries as these, mine. But for the present, as my readership exists solely of myself and Opera’s refresh button, I shall conclude my Chronicles of Riddick(ulous) : The Quest for One Good Camera. That is to say that I hope this is the conclusion of said Chronicle, because I have invested enough of my time on this planet on it already. The Kodak DX7440, combined with a free 256M PNY SD card, and a $20 coupon at my local Staples has declared itself as the most eligible bachelor. Thus far, I am very impressed with the Read more…

I have learned today that, despite what you might think, using an aluminum propane camping grill is not a good option for disposing of a large stack of paper. What you will find is that: – there is a LOT of smoke from said approach and your neighbors might be seen peering from afar at you – you will severely warp the grill of said camping grill – your clothes will smell like smoke and your teenage daughter and wife will complain that you stink – you will have an appreciable mess to clean up from all of the half-burnt paper and ashes, which don’t simply disappear on their own – you won’t actually be able to burn all of Read more…

Maybe I’m just feeling melancholy today. Maybe I’m just frustrated by having invested literally more than a dozen hours into researching what the best digital camera would be for my family, and still don’t know which one to get or where to get it from. Maybe I’m burnt out from work-without-vacation-days-off for quite a while. Maybe I’m just tired from not having slept consistently or well for a while. Maybe I’m frustrated by my career path. Maybe I’m suffering paralysis from prosumer over-analysis of the available camera choices. Maybe I’m dreading going out into the mad sea of almost-Christmas consumerism, cringing from the very thought of the fighting with traffic, unavailable items, checkout lines, ad nauseum. Maybe I’m frustrated at Read more…

Just to answer my own question, sort of, I’ve found this. which turns out to be very useful. It’s not quite as automatic as I would like, but it seems to work. In case the page is moved/removed/whatever, I’ll paste some of it here… Assumptions – that you know how to log in to CPanel – that you know how to use Outlook, or know how to configure your Email client based on my descriptions of using Outlook, to add an IMAP account – for these examples, the LunarPages account name is lpaccount and password is lppassword ; your domain name will be mydomain.com ; I’ll do my best to keep those colors used throughout this text to highlight where Read more…

After a good couple of days of research, I’ve decided to take a chance on vortexhost.com. Unfortunately, I could not find any feedback on the webhost-reviewing sites about them, which doesn’t help put my mind at ease. But in the end, the really good comments I’ve read in vortexhost.com’s forums, combined with the really quick and professional replies to the e-mails I’ve sent Justin Reel (the admin of vortexhost) won me over to at least give them a try. They offer a 14-day money-back period, so here’s to hoping that I won’t need to see if I can get my money back. This is the first time that I’ve ever wanted to leave my e-mail on my webhost. Previous to Read more…

So, I’m tired of having things sort of work and sort of not sometimes with regards to my web hosting company and e-mail. In researching for webhosts, I’ve found some interesting comments from others, most notably that most people start off with web hosts searching for the best price (like me–currently using hachour.net for their really cheap prices), and then after becoming frustrated with the lousy service and support and unprofessionalism, become willing to pay money to not have to deal with it. That’s me. If you know me, then you know that I am currently in the running for the top 10 cheapest individuals in the world. However, I am now willing to pay (as little as possible) for Read more…

I realize most won’t care about this, but it’s an encouragement to me nonetheless. Adriaan has kindly accepted my new memofile conduit into kpilot’s CVS repository!! =:) I need to fix it up some as soon as I get a chance and make it kde-compliant for translations, etc., and I still need to get my hand-drawn UML diagrams into a tool and into CVS to go with the code, so those are the next 2 things on my todo-list. Speaking of UML tools…. Umbrello does a very nice job of reverse-engineering my C++ classes, but it does a lousy job with drawing the diagrams. For methods that call other methods internally (you know, like just about every method in the Read more…