resistance to persistence

Google Daily Menus - Google has a really good cafeteria. I think the food is free for employees as well. Great company benefit.

Freevo - related to the linux media jukebox bit. Movies, tv guide, music, pictures. Pretty dang cool.
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Tv Listings in XML
XMLTV - It’s about time. I don’t know why this isn’t done easier. Apparently, there’s even support for canadian listings as well, which is rare. I think I might try to make something worthwhile around this idea. A PHP page that reads in the tvxml, displays the tv grid for the day, and allows you to download an event reminder in iCal format.

Build a Linux Media Jukebox - “it’s now possible to put together a Linux-based home server in a small-footprint case that can store and display your digital photos, rip and then serve up audio, play MPEG videos (and DVDs), and even act as a TV/TiVo. How versatile you want this server to be depends on what gear you already have in your A/V rack. But at a minimum, this can be a great place to store your digital images, rip and store all your music, and have them all in one central location, both for your living room entertainment, and for viewing/listening from any other PC on your home network.”

Motorola Wireless Development Center - download CodeWarrior Wireless Studio free for a limited time. Just register and you get the app. Get started on all your J2ME apps. Read more on Wireless Studio here.

DVD Master Backup allows you to create personal backup copies your DVD movies by transforming them into DIVX format to fit it on a standard 700MB compact disc. The program is simple and easy to use, just select your DVD drive, the output directory and press a button. DVD Master Backup will automatically extract the VOB files and convert everything into DIVX (.avi) format using mpeg2avi. You also have the option to change some settings like screen resolution and size before starting the final conversion process

Synergy - “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).”

This sounds great. Usually I’ll fire up VNC or something to get to my other machine, but this sounds like an even easier solution. Even copy & paste between works.

Nice! I just got RH9 up and running. I tried it a few times the other night, but had no luck. I talked with one of our sysadmins at work the other day and was explaining my problem. Turns out to be my videocard I think (ATI Radeon 7200). Initially, it didn’t like it so I swapped it out for an old S3 Trio (2M) and tried installing with that. Worked like a charm. Once I got that up & running, I swapped cards back to the original ATI, rebooted. There’s a little plug & play detection utility on bootup that detected my S3 was no longer there, so it removed that config…detected I now had a Radeon 7200 and configured that for me. Booted up fine 16bit@800×600. I slowly boosted it up to 1024, then to 1280, making a copy for XF86Config each time I did it just in case I had to fall back to the previous config. So far so good.
RH is pretty fast as well. I’ve never been able to run Linux on a speedy box, anything other than an old scrapbox. This is pretty nice. Will it replace my XP? Doubt it. I’ve got all my useful stuff on XP. But hopefully over the years, I’ll move my way over into the *nix world. Luckily I can dual boot and run RH while I’m learning for a while.

In the final game of the ultimate playoffs, we won the championship! (…the championship for 7th place, that is). It was a really good match (and tiring ..3 guys, 4 girls), we were down by 2 or 3 at the start of the game, we rallied back and were tied most of the game. In the end, it came down to 14-14. The TCSSC dude came around and called last point. In the end, we came out the victors. Post-game celebrations were held at PJ O’Brians. Drinks and deep-fried ruffles chips (i’ve never seen this before) were consumed. Now what do I do for excitement until the next ultimate season?

I tried to install Redhat 9 about 9 times this evening. It installs fine, but like my video card or monitor. I’m not sure. The screen just blacks out once it boots up. It’s fine booting to the console, but I can’t get X running. Anyone who knows linux and has suggestions would be a great help. So, most of the night is done and I’m looking for something to finish working on, but now it’s too late…watch a movie? too late. Go to bed…too early? So I figure I’ll waste time surfing for a bit, looking over my shoulder checking out Hard Rain (terrible movie) until it is late enough to go to sleep. I should get some decent sleep tonight. Tomorrow is the playoffs for ultimate.

I did a little work over the weekend and started the new and improved site. I just switched to a new webhosting service. It gives me a lot more disk space (600M) so I can fit my photo gallery on here now. As well, I installed b2 to run this blog. At first I installed Moveable Type, but my server was missing some modules so I couldn’t run it without having to harass the server admin to get them to install stuff. I said skip it. Hopefully b2 remains competitive with MT for features. So far, it looks pretty good. First thing, I’ve got to change the stylesheets for this. A little too white for my liking.