I mentioned this flash cartoon (spoof on the Mac commercials) to some of you guys at the BBQ. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s hilarious.
I’m Christer, and I’m a supervillian.
I’ve been having trouble getting XGL / Compiz running but I think I’ve figured it out. For anyone with an nVidia card this *should* work for you.
This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) and my nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 card.
In an attempt not to flood the Utah Open Source Planet I’ve moved the Howto to a static WordPress page. (sorry guys). Check out the instructions here.
Today I decided to try out the Dvorak keyboard layout. From what I’ve read it sounds like it could improve my performance and help avoid in repetetive stress injuries, but we’ll see how that goes. I have decided to use Dvorak for the month of June and track my results. I will test myself and post results weekly on both platforms.
Current QWERTY: ~95wpm avg.
Current Dvorak: ~0
I just wanted to vent about one of my biggest pet peeves in life. This drives me crazier than just about anything else. Worse than people who don’t use their blinker!
What makes me absolutely furious and instantly blacklists the site for all eternity is when a site tries to resize my browser window! It should be illegal and the webmaster should recieve a brutal beating! Leave my freakin’ browser window alone!
If anyone knows how to combat this in a firefox setting or plugin I would very much appreciate it. I never want to see my browser resized again.
If anyone is using amavis + clamav on their mail server could you drop me a line? I’m getting an error that I can not figure out–it doesn’t make any sense. It’s the only thing holding me back from finishing this mail server.
amavis[6116]: (06116-01) Clam Antivirus-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Permission denied, retrying (1)
amavis[6116]: (06116-01) Clam Antivirus-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Permission denied, retrying (2)
amavis[6116]: (06116-01) Clam Antivirus-clamd av-scanner FAILED: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Permission denied) at (eval 42) line 180.
I’ve made sure the /var/lib/clamav/clamd.ctl is chown’d clamav:amavis. I’ve added clamav to the amavis group (and visa versa for extra measure). I don’t know why it wouldn’t have access to that file. Any ideas?
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Darwin Awards. People who show us why ‘survival of the fittest’ is as true as its ever been. Well, I propose we put one together for the PC world. I’m drawing a blank on appropriate names, but I nominate myself for this first prize.
My Desktop has been randomly locking up lately & I haven’t been sure why. I was suspicious that it had something to do with testing Dapper Beta, but my two other machines running Dapper have no such problems. I noticed today that the case was pretty warm so I thought I’d look into the heat.
Well, moron-that-I-am, I realized that when I replaced the fan on the heat sink I put it in upside down! The fan has been sucking air off of the heatsink instead of what it should be doing. Hmm, I wonder why its been getting warm?
I’m glad that it hasn’t done any permanent damage (none that I’m aware of).
At this point I’ve reversed the fan, drilled some holes in the case & I’m going to mount a large fan in the panel. This thing is going to more closely resemble a wind tunnel than a PC when I’m done but it sure wont be locking up!
(Disclaimer: not at all ‘nerd’ related but local and fa-reakin’ hilarious)
Employees are returning to work this morning at the sight of a domestic dispute that turned violent. Police say a woman drove her SUV through a building near 700 East and 4000 South and chased down her husband. She is in jail this morning on attempted homicide charges.
Witnesses say they saw the same couple arguing in the parking lot of Woodland Towers at lunch time Wednesday. Investigators say late Wednesday afternoon Brenda White chased the man around the parking lot in her SUV.
“She just floored it, just hit her gas and went right into the building and came through,” one witness says.
Annalee Rowley, Witness: “I thought to myself she’s going to hit the building. No brakes, no nothing, just heading full speed towards the building.”
Tire marks are visible on the courtyard concrete where the woman pulled into the building, chasing the man into the lobby.
Drew Lambourne, Witness: :”I just saw broken glass everywhere and I saw the car in the lobby.”
It happened as most people were trying to head home.
The SUV went in one side of the building and came out the other. Police say, a domestic dispute went too far.
Drew Lambourne: “I heard the big boom. I heard a big boom.”
Shattered glass litters the lobby of this office tower.
Drew Lambourne, Witness: “You could not not step on glass walking out of the elevator.”
Sybil Terry, Witness: “I was in shock actually, in disbelief whether or not that was really a car coming out through the front door.”
Witnesses say this was no accident. Police say White was trying to run down her husband. They were arguing, and she chased him through the parking lot.
Lt. Chris Bertram, Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office “He was running as fast as he could trying to get away from her.”
The man ran into this building, but he still wasn’t safe. His wife drove through the lobby, and hit him. But that didn’t end it.
“She actually struck him when they got to the end of the hallway. She wasn’t able to stop in time and crashed through the front window. She actually backed up and tried to strike him again,” says Salt Lake County Sheriff’s.
By then, witnesses had called for help. They say the victim managed to hide in a closet.
Drew Lambourne: “I saw the man bleeding. He looked like he was in shock.”
They say the woman showed little emotion.
Annalee Rowley: “She just sat there in the truck as calm as could be.”
Drew Lambourne: “To me, it looked like she couldn’t believe what she had just done. She was in shock herself. She was wide-eyed.”
Witnesses are just as shocked. They say, more people could have been hurt.
Annalee Rowley: “A lot of people leave at 4. It could have been a whole lobby full of people. She could have killed someone.”
Witnesses say the man pushed a little girl out of the way, just before the SUV crashed through the building. Police aren’t sure what the argument was about, but say the couple is going through a divorce. The man suffered serious leg injuries. His wife had minor cuts and was taken to the hospital.
It could be the fact that I stayed up W A Y too late studying for my last finals but I can’t stinking get a javascript clock to load on my theme here.
Does anybody have some suggestions of good configurable javascript clock-code &/or how to display it. I found some via google but they just don’t seem to display for whatever reason.
I picked up two new (new to me) machines this evening. Big wave over to Steve. He picked up a PIII from a BYU liquidation and later decided he didn’t need it so I picked it up. I guess it was a Buy 1 Get 1 sale because he threw in a PII as well. I’ll definitely find a use for these machines. The only question now is what to name them? So far my network names are based on shape/size or color. Already in the family:
I suppose I could come up with a new naming scheme.. or I’ll have to think of something to call these new machines. What does everyone else use to name their machines? I’ve heard of things ranging from animal names to cities.
These are both white. PIII and PII…
Hey Steve, did you have names for these? I suppose if I adopt a machine I could have the courtesy of keeping its given name. 