Monthly Archives: November 2006
gentoo packages that need lovin'
I mentioned not too long ago that I was working on getting portage details crammed into postgresql, and here is the end result. GPNL is meant to be a QA tool for treecleaners to use, making it easier to find … Continue reading
random book of mormon chapter
Sometimes reading / studying my scriptures can get boring (a sure sign of apostasy, I’m sure … I’m doomed!), but it occurred to me the other day that while we are instructed to read our scriptures on a daily basis, … Continue reading
wordpress in gentoo
So I pinged SuperLag the other day on IRC about the wordpress ebuilds, and somehow I came out of that conversation as being the new maintainer. Buh. I’m still not sure how that happened. I’m excited, though. He didn’t mind … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
space paranoids
I’ve been holding off announcing this for a while, since I wanted it to be “done” before doing anything, but since I’m never really going to be finished, I’ll just display what I do have. I setup a new website … Continue reading
giving thanks
Something I find interesting lately, is that with the Playstation 3 coming out, I haven’t seen hardly any positive press about how this thing freely lets you run other operating systems on it. Geeks will get all up in arms … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
ivtv-0.8.1 released
Just another quick Gentoo public service announcement. Hans released a new version of ivtv, v0.8.1, and this comes with a lot of cool updates. It’s already been bumped in portage as well, so for those of you using Hauppage PVR … Continue reading
lds-scriptures postgresql update snapshot
I have not worked on my LDS Scriptures project in a very long time. In fact, annual realeases are becoming an embarrassing reality. However, I’ve been itching to update the project for a while now, since I’ve been learning quite … Continue reading
icewind dale
I’ve been re-repping all my music CDs (again), this time to MP3s because I want to be able to listen to them in my car. I’ve got all the love in the world for Ogg Vorbis, but let’s face it, … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
death to sql server (part 4)
I’ve written about this before, but to rehash … the date functions inside SQL server suck. What’s really weird is that there’s an undocumented way to retrieve out certain datetime formats, and even that is inconsistent in its numbering scheme. … Continue reading
english feeds
Announcing experimental English-only feeds: http://www.planetlarry.org/en/ Enjoy. And for the record, we’ve got bloggers from 26 countries now.
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