Category: Not specifically Gentoo
After a long hiatus...
So I've not posted since 15 April when I mucked up networking on Hydrogen.
I've been up to quite a lot personally and with Gentoo. The non-gentoo exploits mainly involve applying for a visa to enter the United Kingdom to have a Civil Partnership with my lovely fianc
It's not news, it's farking scary
Democrat for Senate: Death penalty for practicing 'gays'
What's worrying is that he's collected enough signatures to get himself in on the running.
Google Error? What the hell?
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What rubbish!!
How do you know when you're really bored?
You write a shite CMS in Bash and PHP!
It's called CMS580 cos all told it is 580 lines in length. lol
It's buggy, has barely any 'CMS' features, but it uses mod_rewrite, which was kind of the goal.
What did I learn about mod_rewrite? Save yourself the trouble and just send everything to a prg: map.
Anyways, if you're morbidly curious feel free to laugh, at the code in cvs. The mod_dir bits are commented in .htaccess because of bug 11843.
I'm famous!!
Or rather, I'm infamous!!!
See also here
Plans for the future
I've had a cluster idea in mind for a long time now. Basically stuff a bunch of Mini-ITX boards into a full size ATX case with a bunch of hard disks, netboot and play. I finally got around to putting down in electrons what I would use for such a box.
I reckon the box will run between
The War on Terror (as viewed from the Bourne shell)
Link: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as
Highly amusing.
The Motivation Factor
Those that know me know that I have surgery scheduled for this October 4th of this year. My fianc
I'm here in America, would rather be home
Yeah.
I'm here.
TSA stole my zippo.
I'd rather be home in York with my fianc
Offline until further notice
Monday afternoon I'm going to shut down my desktop and pack it away into my suitcase and make my way to London, then Dublin, then JFK, then Rochester.
Not sure when I'm going to be online again. I'm due to get in to ROC at 19:30ish. If everything goes okay I'll try and set everything up that night and say hello. If not I'll try and find another machine to use...
This will not be a fun trip. My fianc
Means to an end
It occurs to me that I lead a very dull life.
My daily routine is something like: Play Ultima Online.........
Yeah, dull.
This year I've been in a tough spot since I've been in the UK I'm not allowed to work because I am on a visitor's visa. My fianc
A nice followup
In Oh god. SCOTUS gone mad I noted how the Supreme Court of the United States set landmark eminent domain precidents, permitting local government to usurp privately owned land.
It seems that a developer wishes for the local government where Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter lives to give [the developer] Mr. Souter's land so [the developer] can build a hotel on the site! Brilliant.
Oh god. SCOTUS gone mad
Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes - This is yet another example of the corporate controlled government perverting the Constitution to usurp land from private citizens. Not for a park or road. No, none of that. The Supreme Court has said that local municipalities can demolish privately held property to be redistributed to businesses to profit from.
The shame of it is the SCOTUS doesn't realise that it has things backwards. Land should be taken from the capitalists who continue to exploit and steal from those who strugle to live. Take the land from those who would export a thousand jobs from the community to China (or other areas) and build an apartment block for some of those displaced citizens who were "laid off" in favor of low cost foreign workers.
/rant
Back to the States
For the past 5 months I've been living with my fianc