This is where I rant. You are welcome to make your points but keep them factual or I'll delete them.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Movie Review: Open Season
Movie Review: Employee of the Month
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Will this guy be any different?
Monday, January 29, 2007
jquery and smarty
http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
http://smarty.php.net/
#### Creating a svn repository ####
// Create the svn repository where all the files and different versions will be keept
svnadmin create /www/svn/myproject
// Add directories for your main trunk and tags, and branches
svn mkdir file:///www/svn/myproject/trunk -m "adding the trunk directory"
svn mkdir file:///www/svn/myproject/branches -m "adding the branches directory"
svn mkdir file:///www/svn/myproject/tags -m "adding the tags directory"
// double check your repository
// list what is in your repository
svn list file:///www/svn/myproject/
// look at your repository info
svn info file:///www/svn/myproject/
// Import an existing project into your repository
cd /www/myproject/
cd ..
svn import myproject/ file:///www/svn/myproject/trunk -m "Importing my project"
// double check your prepository
svn list file:///www/svn/myproject/trunk
// check out your repository to the working directory
cd /www/myproject
rm -rf *
svn co file:///www/svn/myproject/trunk .
### Working with your checked out copy ####
// add a file and commit it to the repository
cd /www/myproject
touch my-test-file.txt
svn add my-test-file.txt
svn commit . -m "Added the my-test-file.txt"
// rename a file and commit changes
cd /www/myproject
svn mv my-test-file.txt my-test-file2.txt
svn commit . -m "Renamed my-test-file.txt to my-test-file2.txt"
// delete a file and commit changes
cd /www/myproject
svn rm my-test-file2.txt
svn commit . -m "Deleted my-test-file2.txt"
// List the changes locally and in the repository
svn status -u
// Making tags or branches
svn copy -m "Notes about the project"
file:///www/svn/myproject/trunk
file:///www/svn/myproject/tags/before-some-major-change
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Movie Review: Big Love, the complete first season.
Why do people want to get married? So they can live unhappily ever after? If a guy or girl wants multiple partners then let em. Who wants to stick their nose into other peoples business? Not me. If they want to get married. Let them. If they want to marry four people of the opposite sex and 3 of the same sex... let em.
Oh wait. It's much harder to tax people in relationships like that. Got it.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Business idea: Cell Phones
Calling from the cell phone:
Cell phone calls a line on the asterisk box. Asterisk box then dials out using the internet so as not to tie up a phone line.
Calling to the phone:
If somebody calls the tmobile phone then it costs. Maybe it's possible to use a beeper. Or text messaging. I'm not seeing any unlimited dialing to a home number. If that were the case this would be solved.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Snowboarding
I'm pretty sure it's because I was always way over my head. I need to take it easy. Go out with people who just want to play around. Have a good time. These kids got the right idea.
Mick Jagger...
Or maybe that's what a healthy person looks like? Whatever, I don't want to ever have to look at another musician again. Too many of them look disgusting.
Movie Review: Relative Strangers
Another movie churning Disney style humor. The recipe quit working a long time ago. It is interesting to see Neve Campbell turn to blubber as each year goes by. To get an idea of what I mean look at her upper arm in the DVD cover. I was kind of feeling for the guy, a doc in anger management, until I remember a mixed doubles match where my opponents were an anger management doc and his wife. He came off so genteel before the game. Conducting a little meeting with us about how they played utterly fair. By the end of the match he was screaming at his wife and hogging all the balls telling his wife to stay in the corner and not hit any balls. With that experience in mind I enjoyed seeing this anger management doctor lose it. Too bad he was made out to be a good guy at the end of the movie. What do you expect out of a Disney movie though...
Movie Review: Fix It
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
TBs of storage
http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp
http://www.freenas.org/
RAID 6 requires an 8+ port card and 2 disks for parity, 2+ disks for data, and a hot spare for a total of 5+ disks. That's $500 for the card and $750 for disks to get 1TB of space. This config is expandable to 2.5TBs. I think I'd take the last 500GBs and partition it into multiple drives for multiple bootups.
Redhat...
Movie Review: Talladega Nights
Movie Review: Snakes on a Plane
I need a login system
- Verification via email?
- Human test with a picture of a string.
- All done with HTTPS.
- Log IP address
- Use sessions.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Don't use SHA-1 or MD5
Considering the NSA has been hiring the best in the field for many decades I'd say she's not the first to crack this stuff. Teams of NSA people probably have done it all before. Privately.
I guess the best privacy is keeping it really private and not writing it down.
Movie Review: Gridiron Gang
Movie Review: Bandidas
The movies all about the two girls and their looks. So lets delve into their looks. Salma Hayek, the co-star, has hips that are so wide they look like they belong on the under side of a spider. Penelope Cruz's body is much better but her face is aging though her big white eyes are beautiful. Both girls are made to look like they have lots of cleavage. They might give Dolly Parton competition in a fly squashing contest. You know, shrugging their shoulders to kill passing flies between their breats. Maybe they can find some men with big arms and little brains to appreciate them.
I'm half tempted to look up how well this movie did and the excuses Penelope gives for ahvign done the movie.
Movie Review: Le Samourai
MoinMoin Wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Help
XM Radio
Friday, January 19, 2007
Blockbuster Online
- Faster turn around. You get to return them to the local blockbuster for an immediate credit. You don't have to wait for the wharehouse to receive it from the postal system and then inventory it. As soon as the local store gets it they are suppose to ship the next movie on your queue.
- You are allowed to pick up another movie for free from the local store while waiting for the postal system to deliver your next dvd.
So to add insult to injury tonight, Friday night, I get an email from them saying they received the first two movies and are now shipping my 4th and 5th out. That was suppose to have been done last Tueday when I turned them in to the local blockbuster! What's going on here?
I went online and double checked the wording to make sure it was how I was told. It is. So I tried to contact them but they have no real contact information on the contact page. It should be renamed from "Contact Us" to "FAQ". Contrast this to Netflix which has the wharehouse hours and phone numbers prominently displayed on the home page.
Do they ship on Saturday? No where do they say anything about shipping on Saturday.
I originally assumed on average I'd get a movie every three business days. Figuring it would take on average two days to arrive and one day to watch. Now it's looking like 3 days to arrive, 1 day to watch, and 3 days to send back. So a little less than 1 movie per week.
Figure in the other 2 movies and the 3 exchange movies then you are getting about 6 movies a week for a totaly of 24 a month at $18 or 75 cents per movie. Compared to 61 movies a month at $27 for 46 cents per movie and limited to the local blockbusters inventory. Can't say I'm happy but this is much much better than Netflix.
Now Netflix is suppose to be doing something new with downloads but won't be available until June:
With Watch Now Netflix subscribers will be given a number of free viewing hours that is dependent on their respective subscription plans. Customers subscribing to the tune of $5.99 per month are given six hours of Watch Now content, while the $17.99 per month guy or gal will be hooked up with 18 hours of Watch Now content.
Using this service requires users to download and install a browser application to use the service. At this time this application only works on Windows PCs, not Macs, which leaves the author, a devoted Mac user and Netflix subscriber, out in the cold!
I have a hard time believing that they will sell anything at that price. The cost comes out to about $2 per movie. Blah! Time will tell.
Since then I've found there contact information:
contactus
Telephone Support is also available Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Central at 1-866-692-2789
Solar power eliminates utility bills in U.S. home
- It's the first house to be run completely by solar and hydrogen. There are many houses that run with solar and put the excess into the local grid. However this one converts the excess electricity into hydrogen which is then used in the winter. Perfect for those that are not near power grids.
- Costs are mentioned.
- I'd like to know why he needs multiple hydrogen tanks. Perhaps it's a matter of economics, space requirements, shipping problems, whatever. I'd like to know.
- They mentioned it has a 25yr life expectancy. What needs replacement after 25 years? I know in today's world it's hard to say what the future holds but still I like to plan things that last forever given what we do know.
- It costs him 500K but apparently it can be done for only 100K which comes out to be about 4K a year instead of the 1.5K you'd be paying the power company. That's not bad at all. Still I'd like to know more about the costs.
Green Motorcycle?
To me it's a good proof-of-concept vehicle. I'm glad it will be on sale in a few months. It's a short step to powering both wheels to get maximum traction and a computer to keep the wheels from losing that traction. From that point forwards it's the future. Only small refinements like suspensions, efficiency, solar panels, changeable parts, power supplies and adapters, etc..
The Blame MySpace Movement Gathers Steam
Now the interesting fact is that neither of these two people wanted to put up anything in myspace. I'm tempted to put sites up for them just to get them out of my hair. Unfortunately I don't think either would appreciate it so I don't. I like the idea though!
IE continues downward spiral
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Replace the 'Z's with '<'. I Had to use some other char since googles blogging software doesn't allow html mixed in.
Judy blue eyes?
Because men with blue eyes are drawn towards blue-eyed women, and prefer to choose them as their partner because this can provide reassurance that the woman's babies are theirs too.I just don't get it. Have they ever heard of DNA testing? Is it the man that chooses the women? Perhaps it's the other way around? Perhaps it's just happenstance based on geography. Are we going to start saying Chinese, Indians, etc., choose based on similar criteria? There are many much better explanations. Birds of a feather do flock together. People are much more comfortable with mates having common interests. I recommend this author read other articles written by colleagues, such as this one Folic acid supplements rejuvenate older brains and start downing pills. This is a good example why everybody should always question everything. Though I'm completely at a loss with what I would question first on this one...
Bush keeps on keeping on.
Apple's iPhone, what's it good for?
Wow: has there ever been a month in computing like this one? A January distinguished by not one major announcement, not two, but four significant events that will surely go down as milestones in the history of technology.
I eagerly scanned for these significant events and found 1) Open source for SL. 2) The iPhone. 3) An upgrade to WOW. 4) M$'s Vista. I found it strange that the Linux Journal would post these views. After all, who cares about Vista other than game players. And who plays WOW and SL when there is so much fun in real life? That leaves just the iPhone. And really what's the iPhone other than a fad for game playing kids? It's going to be something that easily scratches, probably not even water resistant, has a built in non-replaceable battery, costs a fortune, and is limited to a single carrier. Well, here's what it is good for. Forcing the competition to lower their prices and offer more features in the hope to woo more sober people away from the iPhone fad. And we are just starting to see responses now like this one: unlimited mobile-to-home calling plan. Now say you run a PBX system on your home phone? You now have unlimited calling from your cell phone. The savings for a small business could possibly be astronomical. And this is just the first reaction to the iPhone. Maybe 2007 has begun with a bang, ironically.
SEO: How to: Disable googles personalized search!
EC snubs Microsoft
The European Commission has added its voice to the debate about the use of open source software.
A report funded by the Commission concludes that the software could offer considerable savings to organisations with little effect on their business.
The report found that in "almost all" cases long-term costs could be reduced by switching from proprietary software produced by firms such as Microsoft.
Spot on!
Americans are increasingly using the internet as their primary source of political news, a study has found.
The report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that more people are contributing to political debate via their own blogs.
Global Warming: Storms in Europe
Iran: Snubbed?
Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion.
Offers, including making its nuclear programme more transparent, were conditional on the US ending hostility.
But Vice-President Dick Cheney's office rejected the plan, the official said.
China's SSM testing
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Chavez to become dictator?
Mr Chavez began his third term in office last week after a landslide election victory in December.
The bill allowing him to enact laws by decree is expected to win final approval easily in the assembly next week on its second reading.
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Skyfairies
Movie Review: Wallace and Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures
Movie Review: For Roseanna
Movie Review: Crank
Basically the hero is given a poison that has no antidote. He'll die within the hour unless he keeps his adrenaline pumping. While he's seeking revenge his intensity is contrasted with the idiocy that abounds on a daily basis.
SQL Tips:
- createdb db_mississippi
Creates a user:
- createuser tom_sawyer
To get to psql:
- sudo bash
- su postgresql
- psql