Moved my office, scoured the house clean, and built an ammobox PC (details to follow)... again.....
Too busy to post though.
Wonderful technology huh? I don't have administrator privs on that box though, so I am probably screwed.
Broadcast.rantradio went down due to routing/address issues today. Not my fault/problem for once. Imagine my relief. The (separate) dual PIII Rantradio.com box seems to be working marvelously.
Happy me!
Broadcast should be up by this evening.
Looks like I might get a new office, away from the engineering area. I can hardly wait! My job would consist mostly of computer support, and writing custom software whenever it is needed.
It is no secret that I am tired of the engineering tasks, and the time they take up. This would give me the time and room to concentrate on what I am really interested in... hacking ALL DAY!
Just got a new HP 2300DN printer at work. This thing is kickass. Set it up on the Unix systems with no problem. Wierdly enough though, postscript printing crashes out the entire windows explorer with this printer. I installed PCL6 instead, and all works fine again.
The coolest feature is the automatic duplexer and booklet maker. It will print 4 pages (2 on each side), and automatically reorder pages to make a foldout booklet. Just the thing for a guy who downloads PDF manuals off of the internet ALL THE TIME.
Ornery Boy. The story of a goth gamer boy, his goth nurturing girlfriend, and their pet zombie.
This server is now running on a Dual PIII 500 server, with 256 megs of ram, and 27gigs of space. Yay!
Sorry for the unscheduled down time, but it all happened so fast.
The server will be down tonight for most of the night, due to unscheduled (dying) hard drive issues (again).
I finally have the internet back up and working at home. Done. Finished.
Next project, the new mini-itx ammobox server for The Rant Sites.
Pant Pant Pant....... What a mouthful.
I had a problem the other day. Engineering documents that are stored in PDF format needed to be watermarked with "Uncontrolled Document". Unfortunately, running the watermarking slows down the intranet web server to a crawl, and kills the (slow) thin client's to a crawl.
Here is my solution...
First of all, I wrote a php script that writes a bash script. This bash script renames itself to indicate that it is running, performs the two-step conversion, and then deletes itself when it is done.
Next I wrote a script that checks the /tmp directory for the executable scripts, and runs them when they are found (and aren't named "running-script").
Download the whole shebang here
Requires GhostScript and ImageMagick to be installed.
Finally got the power supply back for my Laptop (returned it mistakenly to the cable internet people... stupid==Enki). Anyway, I am recompiling KDE and some other stuff right now in prep to upgrade to a new ACPI enabled 2.4.22-ck kernel.
Alsa broke last night. I get surly without my depressing Gothy industrial musak.
The new hard drive in this server just died. That is three hd's in this server that have died over time. I am getting sick of this. WD,Maxtor, and Seagate have died. What should I try next?
Maybe I should get a brand new box.
When you update your details at Verisign by fax, make sure to check on it.
One of my domains: ChargedMultiMedia, expired. No phone call (they had the right one), no email, no mail. No nothing.
My own damned fault for not being more pro-active (spam alert: market speak).
What is to say? It works. Out of the box, no problems at all. I had not had much hope of getting the Adobe apps to run on Linux, and they are some of the few things left keeping my fiancee attached to Windows.
Looks like times might be a changin'
I am loving Linux more and more every day. I looked for a free Spam filter on my Windows box forever, and could find no decent ones, but Linux has evolution, which can pipe mail through a shell command, which in this case will be... SpamAssasin.
Follow the minimal instructions here, and tada! NO MORE SPAM!
Gentoo (my Linux distro of choice) is replete with suckage when it comes to runtime dep checking. Of course, just about every other OS can suffer from the same problems, so I shouldn't be so anal about it.
I am compiling Dashboard on my laptop right now, and it looks like one of the coolest pieces of software ever. I hope it is even slightly stable. Gentoo barfed repeatedly on the build, but I eventually hax0red the Makefiles enough to get it to compile (hint guys: mcs -g -lib:$(libdir) ). Still remains to see if I get a display though.
Need sleep...
Also, very little coding happening. Hard to churn it out when you have the acumen of a stapler.
Acumen: ANT: Dullness, stupidity, ignorance.
Quoth and I take possesion of our new place tonight. We are finally homeowners. Weeks of painting and preparation now follow.
Quicktime VR coming soon!
p.s. Why do they call apartments condos? What is the difference?
Whee! Hours of rebuilding my whole damned system goodness!
It picks my ass that I have to use external module sources to build a decent wireless PCMCIA system. It means that a kernel recompile risks me breaking my whole damned system when I rebuild PCMCIA-CS after.
Whine whine whine.