Just when I think “There’s never going to be a need for me to read kuro5hin again, I have to see what’s posted, and this is there. Now I’m going to have to go back every few days to see if the next part(s) are up yet.

On the plus side, it’s a very interesting, well-written article about networking. Parts one and two are also worth reading.

. . . and they’ll help me with my upcoming headache, load-balancing the connection between the two offices here. But that’s not for a while yet; I’ll have more time to study & ponder.

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well, I think I’ve finally found what I’m looking for with my iPAQ (handheld). Opie made it to versio 1.0 earlier this month, and it’s included in Familiar v0.7.1. If you don’t know about it, Compaq made the iPAQ in a manner such that alternate operating systems can be put on it; I personally know of three other operating systems that will run on the H37xx series ( linux, netbsd, and Plan9). Handhelds.org is the “headquarters” for the open-source, linux version for the iPAQ (and sharp Zaurus, and a few other devices running on ARM processors). It’s gotten a lot better since it first started, and Opie (which is technically a fork of QPE) is looking pretty good. How good, you ask? This good:

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OK, I know I’m either preaching to the choir, or to deaf ears here . . . .

Pretty please, with sugar on top, if you write me a message, email, AIM, whatever: spell the words correctly, and capitalize where necessary. There’s not much that bugs me more than having to read something that looks like it was written by a 3rd-grader (unless it WAS written by a 3rd-grader).

Society in general, and the English language in particular, is suffering greatly at the hands of the instant message, the SMS message, and the shorthand of chats and IRC.

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And after a nice uneventful weekend, I’m back. I didn’t really do anything exciting this weekend, but I did manage to download lots of fun stuff to watch this week.

I also cooked up a nice tuna steak; for 5 bucks at HEB, it’s a pretty good start to a tasty meal that’s (a) a lot more food than your typical fast-food fare, and (2) way healthier to boot. Add on a green salad and some green beans, and you’ve got a huge dinner for about 6 bucks, and 10 minutes of cooking. And only about 5-7 “countable” carbs (depending on the salad dressing).

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On a completely unrelated note, you should go download the TMBG Clock Radio from tmbg.com.

Now.

Really. It rules. You should do it.

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heh. And from what I hear, there’s another one that’s supposed to launch a DDOS against windowsupdate.com tomorrow. Boy, I’d hate to be a Microsoft network administrator right about now. No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn? Heck, no sleep ’till doomsday…

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I don’t know if anyone reading this site has ever seen my VCD database site, or remembers it, but I’m writing a new version of it. I decided that it lacked certain features that I wanted (like an actual field for Format and Norm), so I’m in the process of writing it again. Of course, this also includes a tough choice:

• re-enter all of the information, for each CD (there are probably over 5000 at this point), or
• re-connect the old SQL server, pull the information off it, re-format the information, and insert it into the new server

I can’t decide which would be a bigger pain, so for now I’ve manually entered data for a few series (B5, Highlander, a few others), just to get some sample data to use for the database, and see what I’m missing, and what’s gonna be difficult to code.

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OK, so there was considerable vitriol in that last post. I was a little perturbed; I had just finished a call with some guy on a cell phone, who was talking very quietly, and who wouldn’t speak up. I already had the volume on my headset turned all the way up, too.

Ugh.

Not too much going on today; I went to the store earlier and got some of these kick-ass tortillas that Kathee told me about: 3 grams of “countable” carbohydrate. Good stuff. I’m going to whip up some fajitas tomorrow night, so we’ll see how good they really are.

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OK, If I’m talking on the phone to you, and I say “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. Could you please speak up”, for the LOVE OF GOD, speak the FUCK UP!

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I broke down and installed a log-analysis program on the site, so now if you’re curious, feel free to click the “Logs” over there -> on the menu, and see who’s been accessing the site.

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