So, I’m pretty sure I’ll be buying an iBook sometime in the near future (within the next couple of days?). I’ve been considering it for a while now, need a laptop, and the price is definitely right, especially for Apple quality. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get a 12″–$900 is a good price, the […]
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03-Feb-05more wikis
20-Dec-04Finally got down to it and installed a wiki. MoinMoin was easy to config on Gentoo but a pain for Fedora Core 1. MediaWiki, in contrast, was a breeze to install on both. It feels like a little overkill for my needs (way too much cruft for a personal “offboard brain” with only one user), […]
Stabilization of Technology
08-Nov-04I can’t wait for the day when computer and display technology stabilizes the way that mechanical technology has. I can buy a quality wrist-watch, and 5, 20, 50 years from now, it will still be functional, aesthetic, and useful. The cell phone that I bought this year will be behind-the-times a year from now and […]
Calendar
28-Sep-04Just got Mozilla Calendar installed. Now, as of version 0.8, it can finally read Apple iCal format files, which is what I’d been waiting for. Looks nice and shiny, lots of promise. Still, there’s things that need to be done Import all the base holiday dates (Apple’s iCal library page has them) Write a script […]
Choosing a Wiki
23-Sep-04Looking for a good personal wiki. There are too many choices out there. Need something robust/fully featured enough to do what I need, and simple to install. Blog integration would be nice, as would facets/labels (a la del.icio.us and gmail). A google for “wiki feature comparison” brought up this: Wiki Choice Tree, which in turn […]
Switching from Windows To Mac
08-Sep-04And i would, if Macs weren’t so darn expensive. For the unknown future, then: A slashdot story had a bunch of good comments on the subject. Here are some links to good mac apps: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120291&cid=10137162 http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120291&cid=10135587 http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120291&cid=10135846
configuring sftp
07-Sep-04here’s something strange… if you want to set up sftp on your machine, you need to make sure that the path to the sftp server is included in the user’s default path who is logging in using sftp. An old article on redhat forums gave me some hints on where to start, but didn’t really […]
mounting fat32 drives in linux
02-Sep-04it’s easy to do as root, but takes a little working to have a non-root user be able to write as well as read to the drive. edited /etc/group and added myself to a group #500 edited the appropriate line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda7 /fat32 vfat uid=0,gid=500,umask=002 0 0 need to check that non group-500 members […]
Rhythmbox, iTunes, and mp3 organization
02-Sep-04Some dude wrote a python script to convert your iTunes library xml file to rhythmbox’s library xml file (mirrored here). I like the idea of iTunes’ automatic filesystem organization for mp3s, but I’m unhappy with the fact that it creates so many singleton “artist_name_folder/album_name_folder”folders. Need to write a script to parse thru the library and […]