I always have a hard time finding good tutorials on basic stuff (like X11 forwarding, in this case), but I found this one, and just had to pass it along: doink.
Good stuff, I learned all about passphrases. I’m still not sure how secure the whole password/phrase-less login thing is, though. I gotta read up some more before I get into using it too much.
I love comics, and One Big Happy has always been one of my favorites.
Here’s another classic. 
As part of the Mormon Documentation Project, I just uploaded the first release of a new project of mine, CDDB files for the General Conference session discs.
Available here: http://mdp.nephi.org/cddb/
I’ve been putting off doing that for years, I’m glad I finally got it out the door.
Lately I’ve been renting a lot of James Bond flicks on my Netflix account, since I go through a phase every now and then where I get the urge to watch all of them, and as I sent one back I got an e-mail confirmation saying they received it. In the email is a link to other Action movies that they recommended, so I clicked on the link. I enjoy a good action flick now and then, since my library at home is almost completely dramas.
Well, that’s where the trouble begins. I guess I haven’t seen enough action / adventure flicks to rate other ones, because for some reason they were only recommending Westerns to me. Now, I don’t think I’ve even seen an entire Western before, and I’m not much into seeing them now, so I thought that was a little weird. I kept plugging away though, until I found this:
“Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier), a tough-talking Chicago private eye, returns to her Kentucky roots to help her father fight a hostile business takeover. But when the mob brutally murders him, Sheba must battle evil crime lord Pilot (D’Urville Martin) to reclaim her family’s honor and get revenge. Armed with curve-hugging outfits and shiny firearms, this lady killer takes her vendetta to new depths, setting sail on the high seas.”
Now that’s my kind of movie. Needless to say, I added it to my queue.
Warner Brothers has always, in my book, put out the best DVDs of the major studios. I’m not talking about movies, but the technology. They backed the format when it first came out, were the first to release special edtion DVDs, and after all these years, their DVDs are still easy to watch.
Case in point, I was watching the first season of Without a Trace on DVD. The season finale was a two-part episode. Now, it would be easy for someone at the wheel to be a little lazy and just drop the two episodes on there as they were originally aired onto the disc — that is, in two seperate sections. These guys, however, did not drop the ball. I watched the two-parter as it if was one very long film. They never even broke the credits for the second one, and I was never able to tell where one episode finished and the other began. (more…)
The version 3 branch of mplayerplug-in went stable recently in portage, and one of the things it does is handle a lot more MIME types, it seems.
I have my Mozilla ‘Helper Applications’ setup to send any audio/x-mpeg-url types straight to audacious, but mplayerplug-in overrides it.
The fix is easy though. Edit ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf and add enable-mp3=0 Then, remove ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat so it will recreate itself next time you open the browser. And yer done.
It’s worth noting that the project has some good documentation on its website that explains all that.
