Why are Christians so paranoid? That vocal few make the rest of us just look crazy and self important. No wonder…
Working at my current job I see so many variations and I’m not sure what’s worse, the bible thumping sin flamer or the flighty disregarding the real world to live in a box.
Update on hacking the TV, there is an extremely easy tutorial on how to get your apple TV to do just about anything I’d ever want from a media center. One awesome step is to replace frontrow with centerstage. Centerstage is an opensource application for digital media that will play just about every video format. Another great thing to hear is the enabling of quartz desktop to make the TV another computer.
Before anyone asks why choose TV when you could just buy a computer and do the same thing with Myth. The same reason I always give it’s cheaper, smaller, quite and simply has all the video connections you’ll need to hook up to an TV. All without having to worry about hardware compatibility.
AppleTVHacks.net has some other interesting posts, one includes a bounty to make the TV a Asterisk box and another with Joost.
Joost is a service I’m really excited about. And I’m really close to buying an TV.
Well, I talked about hiding categories one the homepage earlier here and here and it took no more then 5 minutes to fix. I had originally dreaded thinking about it since I thought the process would include manually modifying my theme but with a 2 second search on Google I found the solution. Category Visibility Plugin solves all my problems easily and with a few more usable features like hiding posts from non-registered users. Maybe I’ll request an option to hide posts for registered users to handle the review-me posts.
Hopefully the tweet digests won’t overwhelm your visit now. They’ll still show in RSS which I prefer.
Looks like someone made the Apple TV worth purchasing. I’ll wait for some more “hacks” to come out and this process to be a little more automated before I rush to apple.com. What’s interesting is the system runs a modified version of OS X, which hopefully means someone will add more functionality then frontrow and xvid/divx playback.
What’s so surprising is Apple left the system wide open for this type of thing, contrary to how Apple normally locks down there systems for DRM means. Or maybe they knew it was going to be hacked so they designed it they way they wanted for future expansion, time will tell.
I’ve got a lot of theories brueing, I just need to go to underwaterhatch and post about them. And ah man, I’ve got some good ones too. I would almost call them answers rather then theories. … Read More »
March 22
Work purchased a Black Macbook for me and I’m planning on triple booting it if I figure out why resizeVolume is error’ing out. I haven’t been able to use it until now because work has been crazy and I’m in the server room more than at my desk but already I like it. It’s going to take some time to get used to the desktop having less realestate, overall I prefer the smaller screen because it’s then a smaller computer. The black is cool and I can tell it’s going to get dirty and finger printed a lot which will be annoying for a few weeks until I just give up on cleaning it. Other then it being faster then my pro it’s noticeably cooler and quiet which are the “problems” I have with the pro.
Enough about me, Sara also got a gift today. I bought her a Macbook to replace her “old” iBook and she’s loving it. Maybe she’ll post about it, yeah right. Me being home late from work is the reasoning for the large gift, I also hated looking at that old replaceable ibook and it’s dark/low-res screen. I’m hoping it will last 3 years and I’m stoked to share a power cable again.
Anyone want to buy a 12″ G4 iBook?
One of my tasks this week was to setup a web server for some sites currently hosted on the tragedy of the grid. I don’t want to talk about the (mt) grid since I’ve said so much about it before but to answer “why?” I’m still on the grid for production sites is, I’ve been too busy to migrate them and at one point I was going to put them on a spry VPS but my DB was too large for their contrants, very weird indeed and I could made it work but I pushed it aside.
This week I couldn’t wait any longer I was getting so many CS calls about it “being down” or “Sooo Slow” that it became a big priority. I was planning to install Ubuntu server and setup the system in a few hours but I had so many issues with Ubuntu Server. I rather not go into details because I can’t remember them all but one major problem was webmin and gnome. I hate to rely on a UI to manage a server but it makes my tasks so much easier. Gnome installed fine after an apt-get command but there are so many dependencies that it took hours for it to download and install. At that point I was already frustrated with the install that the problems with webmin, configuration and installing some other server packages I had givin up and started the fedora core 6 downloads.
Today I had the time to finish the system but the installation was as easy as Ubuntu except for the 5 CDs it took to install everything. That was the only 
downside for fedora over Ubuntu. But at least it’s a complete web server after install. Without phpMyadmin and webmin installed I was able to serve up whatever I needed with just a few service starts. The management tool provided as well are perfectly suited and easy to use. I can’t remember the particulars but it seemed Ubuntu wanted me to configure way to much after install without any management tools, fedora can serve a test page from apache after install and if not the tools provided make it a few clicks away.
After a few yum installs and eventually remembering to edit my host file in order to get webmin to show (from the host machine) I had a production server ready.
fedora has some great advatages over Ubuntu IMO: First SELinux (security) and server management tools. Another feature over Ubuntu right now would be the Xen support and management tools built into core 6. The Xen management will definitely help me get a couple webservers (maybe one for myself) installed with the little time I already have instead of wasting time figuring out how to install and configure it for Ubuntu.
This post is not saying fedora is a better web server then Ubuntu but for ease of use it’s clearly better out of the box.
I went ahead and sold myself to write a post about a site I never would have posted about or have visited. I have mixed feelings about this whole deal because I hate the idea of whoring posts but at least ReviewMe (owned by MediaWhiz who does TLA) does a few things right. Because the review guidelines are simple,
We like to keep the guidelines loose, so bloggers can write in a way that makes sense for their unique niche and audience. We do require that all reviews are at least 200 words long, and that the review post is disclosed as being sponsored in some fashion.
and the advertisers are told
We do not allow advertisers to require a positive review.
So that’s the good part. I can be objective and as honest as I want. I also can post about a site tailored to you or simply whatever I want. In my first review I talked about the site itself rather then the material. I’m not sure if that will fly, since I don’t know if I get rated on my review which might lead to me getting passed to a true sell out. Either way, I’m being honest. It’s just I’m being paid ( a lot) to look at a site and write a few words.
And honestly I hate the idea of paid posts but I see this a little different. I see it as a paid link and I’m going to do my best to keep these ‘posts’ away from my real posts. My plan is to make these posts hidden and unnoticeable for you (my regulars) and my visitors. How:
How else can I make these “hidden”? Is this enough? I was thinking of making them pages and then hiding them that way, which would solve everything but I rather not fill that space up with these posts. Or maybe I should, that way I can easily go back and manage/prune them if need to.
I’m in need of a laptop for with small form factor, 2 gigs of ram and can run fedora without any hassles. I’ve looked at Lenovo, Sony, R3 and Jared recommends this one but I just can’t find anything better then a black macbook. fedora supports the new intel macs and I’ve yet to find any compatibility issues. The form factor and design is the sealer for me, although I’d prefer the thinkpad design. And with the price being a few hundred less at around $1,500 I can’t figure a better buy.
What aI really want is a 3 gig laptop but the leap from two to three is at least $500.
A bonus would be that it still runs OS X and boot camp. So I could potentially have a triple boot system with Windows, Linux and OS X. At first I will be only running fedora and VMware, I wonder if compiz will work.
WordPress › Blog » Plugin Directory
Our ever-expanding “extend†section now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins. I highly encourage you to go check it out.
Looks like I will need to switch all my plugins off Google Code and onto the WP Plugins directory. … Read More »
March 16
