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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Missing in Action
« on: February 25, 2006, 09:45:56 am »
http://www.digisal.com/jl//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=184&Itemid=30
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Incase anyone has missed me let me fill you in on where and what I have been doing for the past few weeks.  Sometime in October I got an itch to buy a Harley Davidson V-Rod. After about a week or so of looking at them, I was sitting on the toilet and it dawned on me that I was being an idiot. I should be looking into buy a home, not a 16 thousand dollar bicycle. A girl I work with happens to be married to a realtor so we started talking and the search was on.

I was being pretty picky I guess but I was only looking for a two bedroom, or more, two bath, two car garage home on a quiet street. Out of the handful of homes that I saw two really stood out but one had the backyard aga. . .

WOW! Congratulations Sal. Owning a home is a milestone in the "American Dream". It always comes with certain pitfalls (as in when something breaks you pay instead of the landlord) but there is nothing sweater than hanging in your very own crib.

David

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / The Tail of the Dragon, Deal's Gap
« on: January 19, 2006, 07:25:59 pm »
I know we have some bikes in the crowd here so thought I'd post this up. I had never heard of Deal's Gap or The Tail of the Dragon but from what I have heard since, it is infamous especially amongst bikers.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

The link I wanted to post up is the next one. Be warned you will need broadband and Quicktime. If you have speakers get them on and crank it. The sound track is not that great but a little over halfway through you hear a guy blow by and at the end of the flic you hear our rider whine the f*ker down and up when he gets short changed by a couple of slow riders. Slow is relative since by the end of the clip the camera drops enough to see the speed-o. Check out the parseing speed when he grabs the parse.

http://homepage.mac.com/terry_m/iMovieTheater6.html

I thought this was cool.

David

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Debit Card
« on: December 18, 2005, 10:00:13 pm »
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Lost my debit card again! Earlier this month I left it behind at Chilis but this time around it was at Applebees. The first time I noticed right away that I didnt have it but  this time I didnt notice it was missing til Friday night. A good 12 hours later! I called them up but they didnt have it so they advised me to call Saturday morning. A little bit hungover but I called and they didnt have it. So I had to make it to the bank before they closed so I could have cash for the weekend. Sux paying cash. I feel like I am limited in my spending to much. I guess that is a good thing though.

What as funny was that I wasnt done being out spending money when I realized I did. . .

I just had one of my credit cards shut off by the bank because a retailer I used it at reported a data base compromise. This is the second time it has happened to me. The first was several years ago when BJ's reported that their data base had been compromised. Kind of a pain in the arse but I guess it is better to be safe than sorry. The only other time I had a card shut off was when I reported a debit made on my card from a German buckle manufacturer. I never ordered any German buckles and the company never answered their phone when the bank called to investigate. They bank refunded me the $10.95 and shut the card off.

David

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Computing / Posting from IBM ThinkPad X41
« on: December 16, 2005, 12:27:37 pm »
A convertable laptop. I have it in tablet mode using the pen and hand writing recognition.  I get it as a house guest this weekend to test the network stuff on the home network. So far I have to say I like this unit better than the Fujitsu Lifebook.

The weight is sweet and is very slim. The only thing I dislike about IBM laptops is they use the red nipple instead of a "track pad".  I'll post up other thouqhts as I use it more.

 David

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Computing / PPC-6700 Pocket PC Phone
« on: December 15, 2005, 02:02:33 pm »
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In late October, Sprint released the PPC-6700 to thier Business account customers. I happen to be a Business acount customer and I debated for months about upgrading to this phone. In late November, I finally bit the bullet and bought it.

Right away you notice the difference in size between the two phones. Its awesome. It feels more like a phone and I dont feel like I am holding a brick to my head. Dont get me wrong, I was never embarrased to put it to my head when my Bluetooth headset died.

Of all the features that this phone has there is one that made me want to have this phone.. . .

Nice! Question though ... the SiriuCE? Could you not hear the streaming feed directly from their web site via your browser or does this not work with the Mobile 5 OS? I know next to nothing about the mobile platform other than it is a hot development area.

It is cool that you are near the major airport to get the EVDO. By comparison I don't even have a cell phone where I live because we have no towers LOL. They are slowly gaining ground and we are supposed to have a tower soon. If and when we do I will be looking to jump on the cell phone market.

That is one kick arse geek toy!

David

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Computing / Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On
« on: December 14, 2005, 09:27:10 pm »
Good article over at Big Nerd Ranch.

http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6

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This post teaches how to log in to a Mac or Linux computer using centrally managed user accounts from a Windows Active Directory domain controller. With this configuration, the same Windows user accounts can be used to log in to any of the three operating systems, Mac OS, Linux, or Windows, with the same user network folder auto-mounted.

David

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Gaming / I was on a roll ...
« on: December 14, 2005, 07:10:18 pm »
.. in Simon Says. I was at the office and was up to 19 when a sales rep from Fujitsu came in to demo their tablets. I let the game sit while I got him settled and forgot where I was at when I came back. It popped the window twice when I faulted and told me that cheating was detected. Honest Dad I was there. Not sure what happen but f*k I was on a roll!

David

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Computing / Who'da thunk ...
« on: December 14, 2005, 10:21:36 am »
I file this under the "who'da thunk" department. Visio is way cool and MS has templates for lots of stuff.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC011504131033.aspx

This one just made me say WOW.

David

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Site News / The New Site
« on: December 11, 2005, 11:56:56 am »
I had to finally go to IE on the PC to see what the look was supposed to be.

Mac-angle:

1. Safari totally blows the site. No formatting, no color, no nothing. Just a stew of content mashed into the rendered page. Although it did successfully tableize the lower content of the home page.

2. Firefox gave me color and a semblance of formatting but blew chunks on the lower content formatting.

3. IE on the mac did better than the other two but the left nav stuff bleeds content into the center content and the menu bar at the top only shows "home".

PC angle

1. Firefox blows the lower content formatting.

2. IE renders content "perfectly".

Forum does well on all. It just seems to be an issue with the home page (although Safari just throws up on all pages).

David

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Computing / winRAR
« on: January 10, 2004, 10:06:58 am »
I downed winRAR this AM since I have snagged a couple 3-4 ebooks off of the palm Usenet group. Question? It's shareware ... will it still work after the trial period is up?

David

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Site News / Is it just me or ...
« on: September 15, 2003, 06:14:20 pm »
did I just notice that the index of the forum here just stretched across the whole page?

David

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Computing / Accessing BIOS Setup Program
« on: August 13, 2002, 03:05:22 pm »
Sal. I think you are on a Gateway? Any idea how to access the BIOS Setup Program on a Gateway? The startup screen offers no clues and the tab feature just runs down what is there but no BIOS access information ...

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Computing / Price Drop
« on: September 25, 2002, 03:34:28 pm »
Hey Sal! Don't see you much at Tim's so thought I'd drop a post here to inform.

Not sure exactly when it happened but Powweb dropped the initiation rights for mySQL to $10.00. (Used to be $30.00). I know you were looking at phpBB early on but were unsure about the bones involved. Hell I spill more than $10.00!

I just snaged phpBB 2.02 (released August 12th). Figure I might hack the script a bit and see if I can influence a Flash Forum I am also hacking on.

Everytime I come here though I gotta tell you I love what you have done with this set-up. Just that with a mySQL account you can involve a backend into other things not just forums. It's FUN!

neuromancer

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Computing / Apache, Perl, PHP, mySQL
« on: December 30, 2002, 09:36:07 am »
I finally got the quad working together in my 8.0 setup.

The mySQL was leaning toward 'bitch' status rapidly. By all accounts I should be using '/usr/bin/safe_mysqld &' to fire the server but I would get a connect and then a rapid disconnect. Not sure why. To settle the matter I went into GNOME Menu>Server Settings>Services and enabled mysqld at start-up. Got the root parseword for the mySQL server set and all works good!

The PHP and Perl part were easy as nothing needed to be configured. The Apache server fires fine with '/sbin/service httpd start'. I only needed to add 'Allow Override AuthConfig' to the Apache config file as I wanted to hide the directories behind .htaccess until I make sure my set-up is security tight. The default setup is 'Allow Override None'. There is a way to navigate through the default set-up and gain access to 'root' so I need to change the config and get that blocked! I don't remember the key sequence right off but any Apache can be tackled if not set right ... thereby ensuring that just about anyone with the knowledge can replace scripts (for instance httpd) and whenever you fire the server hence forth you run the 'rogue' script.

I installed the latest greatest phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-2.3.3pl1). This version is VERY NICE! I recommend it highly and I will be updating my web server version soon. (Don't forget if you place this on a 'public' server it needs .htaccess or you leave the database wide open.)

I am tickled I got the set-up tackled and now look forward to 'hardening' the security. I love doing dev work in a local environment!

Just to note the 8.0 install upgraded me to:

Apache 2.0.40
MySQL 3.23.52
PHP 4.2.2
mod_perl 2.0

I really, really like the new Apache! If you get it fired on your system don't forget that hand coding the config file means you CAN NOT use the config tool and if you use the tool you CAN NOT hand code. I prefer hand coded.

David

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Computing / My project
« on: August 26, 2003, 06:59:45 pm »
I can't get to Geekfarmer Forum for over 24hrs. now so lets just jot some stuff here and see what ya think Sal.

I got this old `hand me down` computer from the local school system. It's was a win95 box. I want to load win for workgroups 3.11 on it. The box had Fortres 101 installed on it by the school tech guy. What this does is lock `access` to the C drive. I can't write to it or edit files there. The start menu will only provide a shut down option ... etc, etc, etc.

I got a boot floppy for win95. Navigated from the `a` prompt to `windows\command`. Ran `format c:` and wiped the drive. Could not get the machine to read the MS DOS 6.22 install disks. Thought OK ... maybe I need to wipe the MS DOS on the machine off. Ran `fdisk` and erased the primary DOS partition. Still won't read the install floppy for 6.22. Somehow, there are win95 files sitll present from the boot floppy. I'm not sure what to do. A friend told me I had to set up a new partition. The 6.22 install process should partition for me but I'm not sure at this point how to get there if the machine won't autostart the install floppy. I navigated from the `a` prompt to setup on the floppy but when I run it the machine tells me to restart the machine and it will run.

All I get is the message about how there is a non system floppy present and I have to remove it before continuing. Any ideas? Somehow I want to get the machine to recognize the floppy for 6.22. I copied the files off a friends copy. Is there a format issue with my floppies perchance?

David

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