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28
March

Linuxworld, Boston, 2006, Here I Come!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 3 comments Posted in: Life in General

Oh man, this is going to rock.  I’ve wanted to go to LinuxWorld for a LOOOONG time.  Now, finally, thanks to my new employer, I’ll be there.  I am hoping to be able to come home with the nice and nifty leather jacket they’re giving away for early registrants.
Any KDE folk going to be there? [...]

27
March

Delete the Internet

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

Darnit, I hate it when I accidentally delete the Intenet!! =;)

22
March

Treo 650, VMWare, HotSync Woes

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

So, after several weeks of beating my head against the wall, I’ve found this simple fix for syncing my WinXP guest VMWare virtual machine inside my SuSE Linux host.  Basically, it looks like because usbfs wasn’t being mounted at boot time, VMWare wasn’t getting notified of my Treo 650 as it was trying to HotSync.  Make [...]

14
March

Fantom o’the Opera

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

Tickets to the Phantom of the Opera: $380

Wearable memorabilia for the whole family: $130

5 Smiling Kaspers and a cross-eyed dog: $Priceless

10
March

Log4j, Tomcat, and Family Campfires

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

First, the family campfires bit…
We have an AMAZING house that God has blessed us with, and with it a really nice back yard. And we have TONS of trees all throughout our property (note to self: take pictures of house and back yard for our little viewers). Well, as happens in a forest [...]

08
March

Now I Remember Why I Don’t Run Sid

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

It used to be that I used Debian’s unstable tree (Sid–named after the “unstable” child from Toy Story) for my work machine and home machines. The only problem was that occasionally, when I would update to the latest and greatest packages, things would break and then it would take a bit of time and [...]

06
March

A New Family Car

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 3 comments Posted in: Life in General

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2000, Family Pictures, originally uploaded by vanRijn.

No, it’s not the trike I’m sporting in the picture, but I thought it was blog-worthy all the same.

Oh.
We broke down and bought a 2005 Chrysler Town [...]

05
March

I Win!!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

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My New Toy, originally uploadd by vanRijn.

The funniest thing happened to me on the way to the Store Support Center the other day….
I’d been getting e-mail notifications from someone I didn’t recognize like this:

This message [...]

03
March

The Night of the Terrible 406s

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

I have not been able to do the “blog this” thing from Flickr for a while now. Irritating. I finally had enough of it tonight, so after a few minutes Googling, I found that some hosts are blacklisting xmlrpc.php and sending back 406 errors intentionally because of security problems with old versions of [...]