First and foremost, I have no idea what scrollkeeper is or does, but whatever it’s doing: it’s doing it wrong. I installed a couple of boxes yesterday that had modest hardware and they each spent several minutes running scrollkeeper-update at the end of the install and then they both got to run it again when […]
Author Archives: sam
Various civic… uh…
Wouldn’t your life be better if you had audio CD’s of the full soundtrack to The Big Lebowski in your car? Of course it would! These instructions assume Linux, mplayer and k3b and that you have the Universal edition of the disc. I don’t know the track count for the original Paramount disc. Insert the […]
Amazing Savants
Even though no one posted that they watch the videos (thanks!) I’m posting these anyway. So screw you! We’ll start out easy. This one is only 5 minutes and it will blow your mind. Derek is a musical genius. There are 5 parts to this story, each about 10 minutes. If you start, you won’t […]
Whatever happened to 100%?
Harken back with me, gentle reader. Harken back to a time when the most you could give was 100%. Remember those days? When the most you could give was the most you could give? Those days are gone now. Now you have to give more than is possible. While we’re living in the fucking past […]
Do what your parents did! Get a job sir!
In case WordPress unhelpfully strips the embed code from my feeds, here’s a link to the video. The video stands completely on its own, so I’ll just say: go buy the latest Harvey Milk album. It’s great! For a more substantial taste, you can listen to the full track on their website. Oh and Beck […]
News You Can Lose
Nobody told me there was yet another digital display interface standard. HDMI is so last year I guess. It’s cool that it can do native fiber though! The Wii has been hacked and someone ported mplayer to it so that it’ll play DVD’s now and do other cool home-brew stuff. Cool. See also. They’re triple-dipping […]
This and That
I finally got Jose Gonzalez’ new album and it’s mostly great. I was lucky enough to find a couple of completely kickass videos of my two favorite songs on youtube. I embed them here for your pleasure. Man, I wish I could have Jose come to my house for a personal show! I haven’t been […]
More Must-See Videos
If you don’t know Errol Morris, go rent or buy all of the documentaries he’s directed (feel free to skip his non-docs!). I haven’t seen his new film, Standard Operating Procedure but I’m excited to do so. The film is about the events surrounding the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. I came across a […]
Bash SSH Happiness
So Dennis? (whose name doesn’t appear anywhere on his blog except for in the URL) wrote a cool bash script to create aliases for every host in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. I found some bugs/problems so I spiffed it up a bit. As the comments say, you should pipe the output to sort(1). I’ve tried to […]
OSCON08 Wrap-up
A few things to wrap up. The Stress on Programmers Slides Man oh man I wish there was a recording of the talk. I looked over the slides and they don’t do the talk justice by themselves as one might expect. Glenn posted some comments that I think have the slides for the XMPP talk […]