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site change

October 30, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So, I've always hated those scrollbars, but been too big of a fan of the semi-transparency to get rid of them. Now, however, I can have my cake and eat it too. background-image... mmmm...

back to business

October 24, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So I got back from SF on Sunday. Much fun there, now it's back to the grind of everyday life. Right now I'm working on a paper on the Two Lives of Charlemagne, originally due Monday, but which I got an extension on. I hate writing about things I'm completely uninspired about. Gar. I'll suck it up, take my time, and do a good job on this one, though.

I also dropped Spanish today. I hate Spanish, and was going to struggle through the remaining three quarters of the year. Instead I'm going to start Latin at the semester, which I'm really looking forward to.

Live - Simple Creed

October 24, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I know this song's been all over the radio, but I'm still a big fan of it. I think this came out of the same colaboration that resulted in Tricky's Evolution Revolution Love. I like Live, and I like seeing Tricky get pulled out of his genre a little. Also from the V album: People Like You and Forever May Not Be Long Enough.

muah haha

October 20, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I'm writing this from sjc3, one of above.net's colos in San Jose. I now once again have my own colo'ed server. Web is still elsewhere right now, but I just moved the databases for the site over, and things are much faster (1 hop between web and db, instead of many). I am a happy man. When I get back to LA my web presence can finally get back into swing.

on breaking computers

October 18, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So today I decide I really need to take the IDE drive out of my computer. I have three drives, I'm not really doing much with the IDE drive, no problem. Except that that's my boot drive, and I've never tried booting SCSI on this machine. Of course, I push on. Fun ensues. Click for more.

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Shea Seger - Blind Situation

October 14, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I heard of Shea Seger because she's been touring with John Mayer. I'm mixed on a lot of her songs, but I really like Blind Situation. It's really down-tempo with some rap (by a rapper I haven't heard of -- Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes). Always and Twisted are also cool.

qmail hacking

October 12, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So tonight I had to figure out a very quick way to get email into a host inside the USC network. This wouldn't seem to be a problem, except that USC blocks port 25 traffic at some router level. Hackery was definitely called for, as ISD was probably going to be far slower than was acceptable for our purpose. Click for details...

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you know it's a weird day...

October 9, 2001 by Eric Richardson

You know it's a weird day when you totally make up code and it works the first way you try. Especially when this code involves storing and retrieving nested arrays from Storable... The diff from my eThreads changes on the night is 2394 lines at the moment. Needless to say, I've tackled a huge chunk of code.

Tricky - Bury the Evidence

October 9, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I've always liked Tricky. As he's released new albums they've all been different -- none really better, just different. Bury the Evidence is an emotion song more than anything else, starting slow and building.

gar qmail gar djb gar

October 9, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I both hate and love qmail. It's fast, it's secure, but it's a complete pain in the ass to get running. djb and his "unique" way of doing things don't make anything any easier.

Rita Lynch - All Dressed Up

October 8, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Rita Lynch is another in the long line of Bristol artists. All Dressed Up is my favorite of the songs I've heard, most likely because of its emotion. Also good songs: Beautiful Eyes, Baby I Wonder, and Far Away.

yellow dog

October 5, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I installed Linux on a G4 Mac tonight. That's a weird feeling... It wasn't the easiest process, dealing with a SCSI card that caused a kernel panic and then working through video issues. Video ended up being a real hack, but it only mattered for installation. End result? A G4 now a server running Linux. Muah hahaha...

Sleeping at Last - A Million Charming Words

October 2, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I'm not really sure how I came to find Sleeping at Last, but they have several songs I love. In fact, I had a really tough time choosing which song to highlight between A Million Charming Words, Love Never Fails, and Mended Heart.

power supply

October 2, 2001 by Eric Richardson

My power supply is still outside my computer, now for no other reason than I hate restarting... I've got a 28 day uptime since I installed the new fan. My computer has returned to upright, though, allowing access to the cd-rom drive. The power supply is sitting next to the case on top of an upside-down trashcan so that the cable reaches the motherboard. Fun fun.

Locke Essays

October 2, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I just put two Locke essays in the verbal intercourse section. I got a 19/20 on these two, which is good considering that they're 20% of my grade for that class.

Bennett Mosier - Outspoken

October 2, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Bennett Mosier just has a really cool voice -- sort of raspy, and yet very listenable. He's a little richer instrumentally than John Mayer, but a somewhat similar song style.

Bennett Mosier - Band-Aid

October 2, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Another in my series of vaguely Dave Matthews'ish artists. This is really the only Bennett Mosier song I've heard, but it's a good one.

smart cards and Linux

October 1, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So my hobby of the moment is playing with the smart card functionality of my VISA card from Providian. I've managed to get the PC/SC driver software compiled and hacked the driver for the Gemplus PC430 reader to work with the PC432 Providian distributes. Now when I put the card in the daemon recognizes that it's there. Now it's just a matter of finding anything I can do with it...

There are PC/SC Perl bindings... Now if I could only understand them... Who knows where that would lead.