Author: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

So, the Knotes conduit in Kpilot doesn’t work for me, and several others. After talking with Adriaan de Groot for a while yesterday, I’ve come to the following conclusions: Knotes is not the right application to be syncing a Palm’s memos with. It doesn’t know anything about categories, etc. KJots is close, but that’s still not right either. There is no correct memo editor for KDE yet, that is designed to cater to the things that a Palm’s MemoDB provides. So, after discussing these with Adriaan, I’m going to break out my coding lederhosen and create a Directory/Filesystem-based memofile conduit for KPilot so that I can start syncing my notes again. =:) My goals: Understand enough about KPilot’s internals to Read more…

So, I have just come out of a self-imposed exile from KDE (you remember them, right? the team that wrote KHTML–the HTML rendering engine that Apple uses?). A while ago, a friend of mine challenged my manhood by saying that Gnome had everything I wanted if only I would get used to it. I’d been using KDE as my Desktop environment previously to this exile for a good couple of years. The problem was that, then, the applications that I need/use most (web browser, PIM/e-mail application, IM client, IRC client) were VERY weak in KDE’s side of the court. KMail/KOrganizer/Kab/etc. just were not as polished and functional as their Gnome counterparts (Evolution, Gaim, etc.). So I used KDE as my Read more…

So this time, I took my little Ashleigh to the toy store to spend her gift card so graciously given her by her thoughtful Aunt and nephews (Hi Jen, Elijah, Nate!!). And… wouldn’t you know it… there sat that same, dejected, all-alone-looking instant photo booth again. So we punished it with our silliness. That is why it’s there, you know…. The big one here…

In case anyone else in this world gets this error message, having found themselves in the same position as me, wherein said individual is using a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router, has a Linux box behind it, running fetchmail from one’s house, through said Linksys router, and has purchased Linksys’s Parental Control feature to protect one’s home, children, self, wife, and pets…. Apparently “Your use of this service has been blocked by Artemis” is Linksys’s way of saying “hey, you’re not logged in, silly person.” Fetchmail on the other hand, tells it to you like this: fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Your use of this service has been blocked by Artemis. After an hour of some pleasant conversation with Linksys technical Read more…

This is the coolest thing since sliced mustard, just let me tell you!! =:) I spent more time trying to figure out how to do it than actually doing it. As it turns out, Fedora gives you a disk image for precisely this reason. It turned out like this then…. 1) Search Google for a good hour at least, trying to find any references to anyone else doing this. 2) Failing at #1, search for something obscure and find a link to a README for something else which mentions that the diskboot.img is intended to be used for USB thumb drives, etc., and that one should download it instead of boot.iso for this purpose and use dd to get it Read more…

It was and truly. It was my beautiful bride’s birthday today. So the kiddos and I surprised her with (among other things) what she wanted for her birthday… a new vacuum cleaner!!!! This to replace our classic model that we’ve been hanging on to for the last 5 years or so. You can tell it’s a classic, by the way, from the classic Sleek Wooden Support Structures that adorn its sides. They don’t sell ’em like that, you know, no sir. You have to custom-build them baybees!! Anyway, this new vacuum aquisition could not have come at a worse time, as I was just preparing to stain the custom wooden paneling a lovely dark cherry oak finish–you know, to complement Read more…

Okay, I’ve wasted the last 3 hours trying to get this to work and am done with it. Here’s what I’ve found: – NetworkManager has to have the mode set to “Managed” in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw. This conflicts with FC’s insistence on making the mode “Auto” so that I can change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500). – unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my laptop. No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug this. Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say Read more…

Just found this page. I don’t know how I got there… I think I followed a link from Kevin Fox’s site. Anyway, this is quite funny…. And not just any old digital toilet. Japan’s Toto, the world’s largest toilet maker, has taken a bidet and added an impressive array of high-tech wizardry to create the Jasmin Washlet, a remote-control, computerized toilet seat with more functions than your VCR. It is all intended to — how shall we say this? — cut down on paperwork. Forget the reading material. Jasmin will keep you busy setting digital controls that allow you to adjust the temperature of the water, water pressure, and the gender-appropriate direction of the water. … But it’s the buttons Read more…

So, I’m using Opera again for a bit. =:) Actually, I’m using the just-released Opera 7.60 TP2 for Linux, and it is REEEHEEEEHEEEEALLY nice!! I have always been very impressed with the Opera team, but this release is the best one evar. It looks like they’ve finally improved (dare I say “fixed”?) the printing issues in Linux!!! And this release works with gmail now too!! All I can say is… Opera guys, you are doing a FANTASTIC job! Please keep the great work up!!