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13 May, 2005

Songs I Need to Re-Rip From My CDs

Posted by: vinny In: music

Some kinda weird, repetitive “pffft…pffft…pffft” noise in the following tracks:

Van Halen : OU812 : “Apolotical Blues”
Van Halen : Right Here, Right Now [LIVE] : “Panama”
Van Halen : OU812 : “Black and Blue”
Matthew Sweet : Altered Beast : “In Too Deep”
Live : Unwired & Wired : “Operation Spirit (Tyranny Of Tradition)”
Live : Death Of A [...]

Well, sometimes it is. Just not this time. My Symbolic References post has another problem. Deep Recursion. I’m calling my ldapsearch sub, which generates warnings in perl like this:

Deep recursion on subroutine “Net::LDAP::sync” at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/LDAP/Message.pm line 121, line 283.
Deep recursion on subroutine “Net::LDAP::_recvresp” at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/LDAP.pm line 695, line 283.
Deep recursion on subroutine “Net::LDAP::Search::decode” [...]

11 May, 2005

I Can’t Do That! I’m Already Doing It!

Posted by: vinny In: software

Fedora Core 3 shows a lot of polish compared to my last Red Hat install. With one huge, glaring, drive a Mac truck through it hole: mounting CD/DVDs. I’m shaking my fist at the screen and am so angry I’m almost speaking in tongues. I can’t mount the CD becuse the system thinks that it [...]

All I can say is, wow. Even with the court leaning toward the EFF line of reasoning during the broadcast flag oral arguments earlier this year, I was sure the courts would side with the FCC. Though they quite clearly overstepped their bounds as Congress has never given them the power they tried to wield. [...]

05 May, 2005

Ok. I Get it. Symbolic References are Bad.

Posted by: vinny In: perl| software

So I’m working on a program to pull some data from a server and I’m trying to save myself some work. I’m recycling code that I wrote a year(ish) ago, I have a good idea (and a diagram) of what I need to accomplish, and I finally have chunks of free time to work on [...]

04 May, 2005

Not Quite Hospital Corners

Posted by: vinny In: hacks

I’ve been folding my shirts like this:

ever since I ran across the video on the ‘net some time ago. But I never have been able to get the hang of fitted sheets. Until now:

Hit the link for the rest of the obsessive-compulsive goodness.



  • Stevie G: Your ammonia concentration was FAR, FAR, FAR FAR FAR too weak if you got it off the shelf. At most, store bought ammonia is at %5-%10. To proper
  • mja: Thanks a ton mate!
  • vinny: Nelson, Same result if you add to the font-dirs file in the Xming program folder? How 'bout if you launch Xming from the

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