This is funny. Using the GAIM (third-party AOL instant messenger client for Linux) plugin architecture, gaim-redneck translates outgoing speech into redneck.
Muah haha... I officially declare this the one true way to communicate.
I just saw this Wired News article which says that Deutsche Telekom will be buying PowerTel and folding it into Voicestream. Just two weeks ago I was in Atlanta talking to a cell phone sales guy who claimed that PowerTel was definitely not for sale. Heh. I guess $5.89 billion will soften anybody.
Over the last two days I've seen a little bit of the area around here. I really don't need to say that it's awesome; you can probably guess that. I will anyway, though. It's awesome.
I am now in Australia. Click here to view my rantings from here. Normal stuff that would usually fill this space will continue to turn up here, while I'll try to keep that a little more in depth.
I'm here. After somewhat of an interesting experience at the airport (waiting for a ride who thought I was arriving a day later), I made it here to the home I'll be staying in at about 10am.
From the little map it looks like we're getting pretty close to Sydney now. I didn't really sleep much, but I did watch three movies and listen to music. 54 minutes to go.
It's now noon in Sydney, and I'm somewhere between Chicago and LA fighting with mod_perl. You know what I love about mod_perl? The way it doesn't make any sense.
Once again I'm less than a day away from a major trip and haven't even begun packing... This one's for 5 weeks, so I'm pretty much just going to through my entire wardrobe in a suitcase. Then it's off to the land down under for a little over a month in Sydney. Muah haha...
It's almost time to leave again, so that means updating all the demo'able apps on my notebook. Trips = show time; and you can't convert people with old, unstable code. Enlightenment + efm + feh + Eterm = one really amazing environment to wow people who still think UNIX is all about the command line.
Now if only I could get Broadcast 2000 working...
I've spent a bit of time looking into business jets today (the Boeing Business Jet looks awesome). The most intriguing thing I found was the NetJets program, where you can buy a partial time share in a jet and have guaranteed access to it. Very cool. In the end, I've decided I need one of these.
So I recompiled my ieee1394 stuff, libraw1394, and dvgrab. All working fine. I can connect up my camcorder via firewire and capture video (with audio).
Broadcast 2000 refuses to run. It does absolutely nothing... According to strace it's sitting at a rt_sigsuspend, but I'm not really bright enough to figure anything out from that. Gar.
Oh my... Broadcast 2000 now has firewire support. I must make this work. Getting this and all my firewire stuff to work under Linux would very much make my life complete. Video is the last thing I have to reboot into Windows for. If I had a video solution in Linux... Oh my.
Just on the off-chance that anyone actually reads this page, I figured I should mention here that come October I'm going to be looking for a job. Click for details.
I just ran a process on the o2 I do audio on and noticed that it was given pid 359261. That tells you something about the uptime on that box. Right now it's at 84 days, 10 hours and 27 minutes. I think I had to move it or something then... The box NEVER crashes, and I run it hard.
That is why I love UNIX.
I really hope SGI's xfs port gets usable soon. I spent a good hour fsck'ing today after a really hard crash (two partitions had to be manually fsck'ed... yuck). Journaled file system... Mmmmm...
On the bright side, I now have everything (expect for the NVidia GL drivers) working under 2.4.0-test6. That's fun.
Ok, so today I bite the bullet and dive full-force into doing some much needed system work. I compiled a 2.4.0-test6 kernel, merged my SCSI devices onto one controller, and got my old capture card working again. All fine and dandy so far.
So now I figure I'll hook up a camera and use this machine for webcam stuff again, right? Heh. Click for info.
I didn't get those PCMCIA issues resolved before I left, but I got here fine none-the-less (and managed to get the PCMCIA stuff working yesterday), and am now hanging out in Atlanta. Right now I'm at IntelliNet, making use of their network to get some work done.
I didn't really already post tomorrow... Weird...
I'm one hour away from flying to Atlanta and sitting here with a notebook whose PCMCIA won't stay up for over 30 seconds. Gar. Must fix... I'm downloading the kernel and pcmcia stuff from RedHat's 7.0 betas right now; hopefully that'll fix it.
Woo hoo! I got it... The site now looks awesome in Mozilla & IE, and very passable in Netscape. I feel cool.
So I finally get this looking the way I want it in Netscape, and now Mozilla and IE have to go render it differently. Just my luck that the one time Netscape would actually render CSS the way I intended it, it's not right on the better implemented browsers. Oh well... More tweaking ahead...
The full copy of Adobe Premiere 5.1 that I ordered a couple days ago came in today. Muah haha... Look for cool stuff to appear soon. A couple friends and I are currently shooting a little short, now I'll be able to do some cool stuff with it.
So what do think? Yesterday I hacked this day divider stuff into eThreads weblog module, so I figured I'd try it out here. I like it. I think it's a lot cleaner than the old way. And the cool part? You don't have to use it. If you don't want a divider you just leave it blank in the look theme. Muah haha...
This company claims to have perfected computer head tracking. Imagine the possiblities you could get from the computer responding to eyeball shifts... I want blink clicking...
Ok, so I've been promising that I would bring the mp3 log back for who knows how long. At long last, I now have. Your window into my listening habits is once again re-opened.
Why does it not surprise me that a movie whose trailer has absolutely no discernable plot gets bad reviews? I have to say that Coyote Ugly really does look like it takes the cake for lamest excuse to throw a bunch of women up on screen and call it a movie. I haven't seen it though, and have no plans to, so I really should refrain from saying that.... Or not.