Cleaning out some drafted entries here and found something that my coworker Boone threw me a bit ago: Despite the constant reminders from the Bush Administration, you’ve obviously forgotten: The sole reason that terrorists hate Americans because of our freedom and liberties. The best way to prevent terrorist acts, therefore, is to strip those puppies […]
A Different Perspective on Politics Read Post »
Play with Nearly-Live Planetary Desktop Backgrounds.
XPlanet Dynamic Desktops Read Post »
Ok, so of the five security updates for windows that came out today, three have the following message. A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Windows and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install
There’s a lot of really stupid ideas out there in TV land, most revolving around so called “reality” TV shows. Next time anything happens in your real life that’s similar to anything you see on reality TV, let me know. I guess they realized early that “reality” was pretty boring, and to make it worthy
Rants on Stupid Reality TV Read Post »
Does anyone know if there’s some sort of built in limitation to the Windows SMB implementation that causes it not to display large directories? I have a share on my Samba 3.0.4 server which has 542 directories in it. They all have the same permissions on the fileserver, and all directories display when mounted on
Windows SMB Directory List Oddness :( Read Post »
A while back I mentioned Orbit1 as a good site to check out on the daily photoblog run. I of course forgot to put it in my bookmarks so I haven’t visited there lately. On a note from houserdesign’s site (pointing out this way cool collage) I did a run and found not only more
Bringing out the Big Guns Read Post »
Every once and a while I read something or find a link to something that really, really pisses me off. Every day I’m exposed through various websites and TV shows to politics from my neighbors to the south, the good old US of A, land of the free and home of the brave. They’re talking
Dangers of Photography in the Land of the Free Read Post »
As I write this I can hear Firefly in the living room admonishing Zoon and Patches for fighting directly where she’s cutting and working with fabric. Threats of “no fish for a week!”, “don’t do that!” and “claws in!” are falling of deaf, furry ears. Apparently any place that a person is working on something
Sewing Time Cat Fun Read Post »
Did a bit of remodeling desktop wise last night and figured I’d post a screenshot this morning. I thought about this a lot last night apparently because I even dreamt about it. I don’t remember the dream exactly, but I know it involved taking a screenshot. So anyway, here it is: [ 1024×384 (71k) |
My Linux Desktop Screenshot Read Post »
Playing around with taking panoramas using a vertical format to get a really wide angle view and this is what I got sunday night. Stitched together from three images. Click for 1024 70kb larger image. [ 1/90 sec at F8, minor post-processing ]