not waving but drowning

many network problems today.

I’d really like to start up something like Independents Hall here in Brevard county. Something in Central Brevard, with coffee nearby, a nice neighborhood for walking around the block to clear your head, plenty of parking, easy access to a library, close to a gym, close to restaurants in case you need [...]

I saw this on an IRC channel today:

Here, run this to see what you system runs during boot: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e “eval decode_base64(’c3lzdGVtKCJpbml0IDYiKQ==’)”

When this runs, it decodes the string and executes it. The code that is executed is the “init 6″ command, which reboots a linux system. Cruel practical joke…and a good reminder not [...]

in a few hours, to be exact. now burning CDs for the Ubuntu installfest, and packing a whole lot of gear.

Tonight couldn’t sleep so wrote one of the presentations I hope to give at BarCampOrlando this sunday. Used Google presentations, it seems pretty nice so far. The killer feature is that you can run a presentation over the web, and people can follow along, ask questions, etc.

One thing I miss is the ability to put [...]

Dear world,
I accidentally let my GPG subkey expire 2 days ago. If you were trying to send me encrypted mail, you couldn’t. I’m working on fixing this now.
Update: The expiry on my key ID 608c0112 (and subkey) has been updated, and uploaded to keyserver.ubuntu.com and subkeys.pgp.net. If you have any trouble encrypting mail to me, [...]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu

“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.”

“Never write a letter and never destroy one.”

ASL convention this weekend, just outside of tampa. The hotel this time was SO much better than last time. Hilton Garden Inns are nice - not luxury that is a waste of money, just nice and comfortable.
After months and months of going to ASL meetings (no english, full immersion) 3 times a week or more, [...]

Sometimes, you want just one particular package out of the next version of Ubuntu, but aren’t quite ready to upgrade. Perhaps it’s an annoying but not critical bugfix, or a shiny GUI toy, but you can’t yet upgrade your system to the latest release.
UbuntuBackports is one way to get your fix. THey have a very [...]

When a program skypes, that means that it crashes inexplicably just when you want to use it most. “Joe called me and my whole desktop skyped on me.” You get the idea.

Yet another reason to keep your inbox empty - spammers setting the wrong date on email so it goes to the very top of your list of messages. If you have more than one screen of messages, the spam gets mixed in with the older messages and you might think it is something that needs [...]