Resolve Spotify’s libssl 0.9.8 dependency in Debian Squeeze
Category Archives: General Posts
MIT/GNU Scheme in OS X
I’ve not mentioned this previously, but I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and it’s one of the greatest purchases I have ever made. I love this thing! It is so damned sexy (observing both its hardware and software), and so damned fast. I picked-up the baller, 13″ model with the Core i7 …
vim + Python
Below are my current .vimrc settings which, I find, are particularly pleasant for hacking Python. syntax on filetype indent plugin on set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set softtabstop=4 set expandtab set autoindent set number ” a useful addition to Python source files is the following: ” vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 ” this requires the ‘set …
Madigan, Begin Again
Shortly before I left the house yesterday for the airport, the home line rang and displayed a nonsense phone number on the caller ID. (“100000000000” was the number — clearly a spoofed number to obscure the identity of the caller.) If I may digress, briefly, I find it particularly insidious that the campaigns of local …
Ubuntu Global Jam — Chicago
We’ve finally agreed on a venue and, so, the Chicago Ubuntu LoCo (“Local Community”) will be meeting for the Ubuntu Global Jam this Sunday, October 4th at the Schaumburg Library from Noon until 9 pm CDT in the Rassmussen South room. For those of you who are unaware of the purpose of the Global Jam, …
Ubuntu in VirtualBox
I travel nearly every week to my clients’ offices. I have recently become quite keen on the idea of videoconferencing with my wife and children each night, as a means to span the miles between us. Skype is the software I’ve settled on, as the most promising open-source competitor (Wengo) didn’t instill much confidence. The …
Happy New Year!
I certainly hope that 2009 will find me more actively updating the blog here!
Addon Domains at HostGator
This site is, as I’ve mentioned previously, hosted on a Linux server I rent from HostGator. I ran into a bit of trouble when using “addon domains” with their service which I have meant to document for some time now. I read the knowledgebase article at HostGator Support on setting up addon domains which warns …
Repairing Scratched DVDs and CDs
This is a fairly useless piece of trivia, but it saved a recent movie rental experience for me so I figured I’d share it. I typically wash scratched or otherwise unreadable DVDs or CDs in warm, soapy water and then dry them with a soft, non-abrasive cloth. Discs which are not readable after this washing …
Flight of the Conchords
This duo from New Zealand is one of the funniest comedic acts I have seen in some time. A full 30-minute appearance on HBO’s One Night Stand can be found on YouTube: Flight of the Conchords — HBO One Night Stand It would certainly be worth the time spent searching YouTube and Google Video (why the …