Nix Bits

Writing up the procedure I use to stream music got me thinking about problems with it and alternatives. One problem that it has is that I must be logged in on the console, in X, running xmms. A power-outage forced reboot could end my musical bliss at work ;). Someone else pointed out that I […]

It’s hard to imagine anything positive to say about war — regardless of one’s opinions of the decisions that led up to it. Hopefully few (or none!) are hurt or killed and this ends quickly. Hopefully the divisions that have been created are mended. It’s hard for me to imagine positive outcomes but I hope […]

I’d done this a long time ago and pretty much forgotton all about it. I’ve used procmail for a long time to pre-sort all my mailing list mail among other tasks. I also use it as a mechanism to distribute my gpg public key. If you send me a message with the subject “get key”, […]

I have decided to start using my GPG key again to sign emails and such. It’s a good thing to use encryption and digital signature technology. Consequently, I’ve gone ahead and posted my key here

If you’re like me, you’ve taken the time to rip your entire music collection to mp3. I have a huge collection of CDs and like to listen to them in the car with my portable mp3 player. I also like to listen to them at work. Since I have a PC and net access, I […]

Well, it’s finally come and gone and I for one shall miss it. Mardi Gras has to be my favorite holiday. It’s special. it’s different. Everywhere else, Tuesday was just another Tuesday. In New Orleans it’s so much more. Lots of people only think of Bourbon Street and baring body parts for beads. Sure that’s […]

I’ve had a few questions lately about my lab. I no longer host NOLUG on my personal equipment. My company OTIS hosts it on a FreeBSD box that Mikey and I set up. Nonetheless I do have a pretty extensive little personal lab for testing and development. My primary workstation is an Athlon with 512M […]