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29
December

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 [...]

27
December

Merry post-Christmas!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

27
December

Linux laptop

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

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!! =:)

20
December

The Quest for One Good Camera… over?

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

18
December

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 [...]

18
December

Life is too short.

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

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. [...]

15
December

Training spamassassin from a cpanel-based webhost

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

14
December

You had me at “Re: Information Request”

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

11
December

Wookin’ for Dub…

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

09
December

kpilot memoconduit accepted into kpilot proper!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Life in General

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 [...]

05
December

An update, whether you need it or not

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

Wow, been lax lately on keeping this up to date.
My kpilot memofile conduit has been released upon an unsuspecting world. And as of yet, I’ve only heard back from Adriaan about it. =:/ Guess I was hoping for someone else (other than me) to actually care about it. I guess I’ll [...]