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Archive for February, 2005

24 Feb, 2005

I Think I Just Wet Myself

Posted by: vinny In: humor

I’ve been reading Query Letters I love, a blog about movie pitches. This one’s an absolute gem:

“When her husband finds a shrimp that grants wishes, a wife becomes too greedy for her own good.”
Question: Who plays the shrimp?

22 Feb, 2005

Speed Up Firefox Loading Under XP

Posted by: vinny In: software

Firefox has an interminably slow load time when compared to IE (which loads chunks of itself into memory on boot), but adding “/Prefetch:1″ (no quotes) to the shortcut significantly reduces the load time:
“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” /Prefetch:1

21 Feb, 2005

Don’t Ignore The Warnings

Posted by: vinny In: general

When Domino tells you “Your ID is about to expire”, don’t ignore it. You’ll have to jump through a few hoops once the cert is expired:

Have the person with the expired ID put his ID on a floppy.
Have him his floppy to the admin.
The admin goes into Domino Administrator and clicks on the Configuration tab.
They [...]

15 Feb, 2005

Because Garlic Must Pay!

Posted by: vinny In: food| humor

I’ve been a regular reader of Real Life Comics for a while now, and the current one really hit home.

Must… Make… Gas-Powered… Garlic… Press…

So, I’ve hit an interesting wall. I can’t download files over 2GB using the MythTV web interface. Of course this isn’t the fault of MythWeb. Apache and PHP were built without Large File Support (LFS). What this means is that I’ve got to rebuild both Apache and PHP. Then I have to test to make [...]

05 Feb, 2005

How Do I Back This Stuff Up?

Posted by: vinny In: mythtv| software

At the moment, MythTV is sitting at this:
145 programs, using 152 GB (108 hrs 17 mins) out of 207 GB
So, it’s time to start backing some things up to DVD. It’s possible to actually make a DVD, which I’ll do later, but for now I just want to export the file and related db info. [...]

02 Feb, 2005

Slackware Reference Docs

Posted by: vinny In: mythtv| software

Like the The FreeBSD Handbook, The Slackware Handbook:
The Slackware Handbook
 
 
and, it’s older sibling, The Unofficial Revised Slackware Book Project:
The Unofficial Revised Slackware Book Project



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