Monthly Archives: October 2007
happy halloween!
It’s Halloween! Halloween and Christmas are the only two holidays that I really get into. I love it. I especially love Autumn as well. Good times. I went out last night and bought another $30 worth of candy to … Continue reading
reboot on kernel panic
I don’t remember how I found this, but I’ll pass it along. One thing you can add when booting your kernel is panic=<integer> to tell the kernel to reboot the system if it hits a kernel panic, after <integer> number … Continue reading
x11-themes/pidgin-smileys
I added x11-themes/pidgin-smileys to the tree this morning, for those of you who like me are on a LOL graphical fix. I can’t recommend the TrillyPro theme enough. (woot) Anyway, I dumped a few of them that were annoying me … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
hacking democracy
I just watched the coolest documentary, Hacking Democracy, which tells the story nicely of Black Box Voting. It’s a great movie, and I highly recommend watching it. I thought that I was watching the news closely on the insanity of … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment, General
not a unified front
I have an opinion on the whole matter of the direction that the business models of the companies that make up the RIAA and MPAA, as well as the television networks — while they may present one opinion, it’s not … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
5.1 surround sound
I finally got around to hooking up my 5.1 surround sound stereo this weekend (I didn’t have my rear speakers setup), since I also finally bought season two of Star Trek: Voyager, and I wanted to watch it in full … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
planet larry complete reboot
The time has come to make some major changes to Planet Larry, to keep things simplified and make life easier on Alex and I as well. Lots of stuff has changed, and here’s the summary: There are now only two … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
beginning embedded linux
I’ve been doing some research into embedded linux since last month, and it is some incredible stuff what you can do. Gentoo’s tools make it especially even easier to quickly create and customize builds that can be deployed, not that … Continue reading
rss and atom
I’ve been having problems with the cache of the RSS 2 feeds, and in an attempt to clean up config files, broke it completely. Whoops. As a matter of record, though, I think that I would recommend the Atom feed … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
