Apropos of the last post, everyone on Earth should run out and buy The Honeydogs’ latest record, 10,000 Years. A beautiful and blistering anti-war rock opera, with songs you’ll be humming for days after the first listen. The album was almost entirely written in 1999, so it’s actually not a …
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It’s sometimes difficult to be an art and music lover who is also a conservative, albeit leaning toward libertarian. Every band I love seems hopelessly and self-destructively devoted to the political left. Even when the music is free of an inherent political message, it’s discouraging to see the artists devoting …
A coworker forwarded an interesting e-mail regarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C. Although it turned out to be only partly based in fact, it did lead me to look up the real site of the Honor Guard of the Tomb. The dedication of the Sentinels who …
Arggghh… The new Fedora kernel, 2.6.8-1.521, fixed my IDE VFAT bug, but it is very s-l-u-g-g-i-s-h after exercising RAM. It apparently overuses swap for some reason. My tests were not on a powerhouse per se, but a perfectly respectable Athlon Tbird 1.4, with 512 MB RAM. It rocks under 2.6.7-1.494.2.2, …
Note to self: Emacs – Learn It, Love It! To wit, I offer this addition to .bashrc: unalias vi function vi() { zenity –warning –text=”You are commanded to only use Emacs!\nGo now and sin no more.” if [ $? = 1 ]; then gvim “$@” else emacs “$@” fi }
Today I got my ViewCVS interface working on my Web server. You can visit my Subversion repository to see the results. WOO-HOO!!!
Some goofball who is on one or more of the Fedora mailing lists I frequent has apparently picked up the MyDoom virus and is spreading it around, labeled as coming from my e-mail address. If you receive this virus in an e-mail that purports to be from me, you can …
My dad is getting married (for the second time) at the end of September, and he asked me to be his best man. What I hadn’t considered before I said “yes” was that I would have to come up with a toast. This seems like a small thing, but when …
If I didn’t look up to him as a musician so much, I might call him my friend. In any case, the inimitable Greg Howard is setting up a Stick seminar in Charlottesville during the weekend of October 16th and 17th. Looks like I’ll be going, hopefully with my friend …
Great, more lunkheads trying to pry open Paul’s Magic Box. Aug 7 16:49:18 sshd[27205]: Failed password for root from 212.152.182.100 port 36424 ssh2 Aug 7 16:49:18 sshd[27206]: Failed password for root from 212.152.182.100 port 36425 ssh2 … …and so on.