Kasperian Moving Parts

kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

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As it turns out, after having spent far too much time trying to debug this, I found a bug in Kopete that was causing the problems with using a SOCKS proxy in KDE. Along the way, I learned that a SOCKS proxy feature is built right into SSH!!! ssh -D
causes SSH to [...]

I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a good couple of hours and had to vent….
I needed to get Kopete (a REALLY good KDE IM client) to use my Squid proxy server. Well, it’s not designed to do that, so that’s one thing, but what it can do is use [...]

I knew it was coming.
The worst part of it is that even if I do find an uber-cool design that I like, I’ll likely soon get bored again. And what, then, shall I do? What then, donut lady?
Well, anyway, I’m looking for a good WordPress design. In fact, I wasted [...]

So, one thing that I’ve found lacking in WordPress is the ability to be notified when somebody has replied to your comments on someone else’s blog. And, not surprising, there is a plugin for it. It looks pretty interesting, and I’m tempted to try it. =:)
As an aside, I started looking through [...]

So, I stumbled upon this wordpress client and got all excited about it until I realized that it was written specifically for Internet Explorer (which I wouldn’t use if you paid me in Cheese Whiz), specifically for Windows (which I wouldn’t use if you paid me in Cheese Whiz either). Why would anyone write [...]

My friend Mike has brought up the Spongebob issue.
Here’s the thing that bothers me about this. Once again, the media has incorrectly reported the real situation. If you’re interested, you can read the cause of all this hullabaloo here. In fact, go do that real quick.
Go on, read it.
Okay, Mister [...]

You’ve just had a day off yesterday and you don’t feel at all rested.
You wake up an hour and a half late for work the day after your day off.
You would rather be shoveling snow than sitting in your cubicle at work.
You would rather be cleaning the bathroom than sitting in your cubicle at work.
You [...]

you are taking one tomorrow and don’t have a clue as to what you’re going to do with yourself, but you know that it won’t be “to rest”.
your to-do list is longer for your day off than it is for a regular day at the office.
you are feeling stressed out about the fact that you [...]

My name is Jason ‘vanRijn’ Kasper. The Jason part was given to me by my parents, though I have many times wished I had been named Richard the Third, after my Dad and Grandfather. The Kasper part was passed down to me from my Dad, though there are some pretty interesting facts about [...]

I realize that this has been out on the ‘Net since 1999, apparently, but I just became aware of it. This is a really interesting article, written by Hans Bodlaender, apparently. I think it is a very well-balanced and wise point of view to have, and as a Christian, I agree with it. [...]

Yesterday was a long day, in which my eldest daughter and her Teen Bible Quiz team came in first place in their third match!! I am SO proud of my team!! As their coach, I was nervous about the match yesterday, and in spots, it was VERY close. But my girls pulled [...]

One word seems to fit… WAHOO!!! A couple of weeks ago, I bought this incredibly cool Logitech MediaPlay mousie. Now, I run Linux by choice, and have for the last 10 years, and most probably will for the next 20 or so. This means that there are certain things you resign [...]

Just wanted to post an update to my rant yesterday about getting cursors working, etc. I was up until 2 in the morning last night, wracking my brains about how to get a simple drop-shadow to work in perlmagick (ImageMagick-perl interface). Very grumpy this morning as a result and feeling in general rather [...]

Meant to put this up yesterday, but I got distracted, etc….
Welcome to Wordpress, Mike!! =:) It looks good on ya. =:)

Okay, how hard can it really be, honestly, to figure out how to get X to change its cursor without having to restart KDE/gnome/etc.? We’re in the stone ages, folks, when the our little user (me, at the moment) has to log out and log in again from his desktop environment to be able [...]

So, I’ve discovered BloGTK just now, and this post here will be the maiden voyage of said tool in combination with my Wordpress blog…. (looks pretty good thus far!!! =:) )
In other news, I found a very interesting blog today from which I’ll quote…
One of the joys of running Linux is that all [...]