Is there an Echo in here? Yessirreebob, that would be my Echo Audio Layla24, finally to be supported in the kernel! Drivers appeared in the 2.2 kernel, but then disappeared among the 2.4 upheaval process. According to this commit, I’ll soon be seeing them in the 2.6.18 kernel. I’m very …
Ethan is now at the stage where, between spates of screeching and spinning his head off his shoulders while fire shoots from his eyes and ears, he is taking quantum leaps of development, especially linguistic. At age 2-1/2 or so, he’s lagging only slightly behind where Evie was at his …
This McSweeney’s letter to the Amazing Randi contains no bad language or graphics, but may not be suitable for people of extremely sensitive dispositions. You’ve been warned, now click the damn link already.
Just got home from carousing and carrying on with some very close, old, and good friends (In the best senses of all words concerned) tonight. We holed up at a neighborhood pub (or the closest facsimile that the US can provide — given that we’re in Virginia, that’s not too …
Thank you, thank you Konstantin, for pointing this out. This has been annoying me for a while and I had just internalized the rage. Here’s some additions to the list. Anything that calls itself “gnome” is, IMHO, grist for the mill: xchat-gnome: exit application This might make sense at first …
I am really enjoying the Python Challenge, a site to which Toshio sent me a link the other day on the #fedora-python channel. I’m at level 7 and — since this interrupted my reading of Dive Into Python — I’m now starting to bump against the limit of what I’ve …
If you’re a Fedoran who does Python, I invite you to camp on #fedora-python… mostly because I intend to sponge off you while I learn.
After moving my WP to my rejuvenated and software-RAIDed web server, I ran into what is apparently — owing to the googlejuice — a fairly common problem. WordPress would simply not connect to the MySQL database I have on a separate machine inside my firewall. I checked all the configuration …
I hate the Fourth of July. Wait, let me explain. I don’t hate Independence, or the idea of celebrating the birth of our nation. I don’t hate flags, or Uncle Sam hats, or family picnics, or parades with or without marching bands. I especially don’t hate the nice frisson of …