matt | August 31, 2008
Hat tip to
1. They are watching TV. What are they watching?
Project runway.
2. You're out to eat. What kind of dressing do they get on their salad?
Some variety of vinaigrette – generally balsamic-based.
3. What's one food this person doesn't like? What's one food this person could not live without?
Beans. Ice cream.
4. You go out to [...]
matt | August 26, 2008
I've posted a doohickey about gaming. We'll see what comes of it.
Regarding gaming online, and my whole thought about using Second Life for it, I realize that it is a little too “heavy” for general gaming. I mean, we need to be able to play games on random low/spec hardware, and not really require the [...]
matt | August 20, 2008
Liz: Who doesn't love a drag queen.
Me: I don't know, the Westboro Baptist church?
(We were watching project runway)
matt | August 13, 2008
Meta-x indent-region is a useful command. It indents a region of code.
It is bound to Ctrl-Meta-\. \ is right below Backspace.
After dumping myself out of my X Session, I rebound it. Indent starts with i, so I bound it to control-i.
Then I tried to make a makefile. Tab wouldn't insert tabs. Kept complaining that it [...]
matt | August 13, 2008
matt | August 12, 2008
I've updated the kitten gallery with new pics. The new pics start here.
matt | August 10, 2008
So, I've finally put up photos of my new Core 2 Quad System.
For comparison, I've also put up photos of my old Dual Athlon System.
Specs on the new system are here.
I should also note that the new system is much quieter than the old one – fewer drives spinning and quieter, speed modulated fans. That [...]
matt | August 9, 2008
I have some friends of mine who are looking to clear out some old computer kit, but don't want to throw it out. Hence, they are trying to send them off to good homes. All of these worked when last powered on:
TRS-80
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
They aren't looking for any money, except to cover shipping if applicable.
Anyone [...]
matt | August 9, 2008
Following various vulnerabilities recently in Firefox (which concerns me) and IE (which doesn't, but it might concern you) which allow for the stealing of all saved passwords from your browser, regardless of whether you've set a master password or not, I have decided that it is not safe to store passwords in your browser (and [...]
matt | August 9, 2008
Aside from some short quips, I haven't really updated this in about two weeks.
Last weekend, (the weekend of Aug 2nd), my brothers-in-law came to visit, along with various nieces and nephews. It was good to have a full house. Much food and fun was had by all.
The corn is all thinned, the pea fencing has [...]
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