Entries from November 2004 ↓

So I’ve been trolling through the ubuntu forums since they’re really nice and still getting used to debian based system thing. I’ve come across 2 things that I didn’t know about that helped a lot.
The first is nice freaking amazing fonts in gnome just save the following snippit as .font.conf in your home directory. Then log out and log back in. It made me pee a little.

EDIT: my xml block evaluated to true. download this file and name it .font.conf. font.txt
The other hint speeds up the interweb, i swear. The latest version of Mozilla includes support for “IPv6″ a new form of addressing things on the Internet. Unfortunately it uses IPv6 before IPv4. If your connection doesn’t support IPv6 then firefox will fail on it’s first connection. To fix this:

1. sudo nano /etc/modutils/aliases

Look for this line:
# alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6

Change the line to: (remove the #)
alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6

2. sudo update-modules

One last thing, it’s totally worth installing a kernel for your architecture. If you are on x86 the default kernel uses the i386 arch. You don’t even have to rebuild it by hand to get an i686 kernel you just have to sudo apt-get install linux-686 If you’re running a patched kernel (like i am for inotify) it’s a little bit of work but not much.

(14:32:44) cfusion997: damn do i hate hair!
(14:58:37) Eli Dow: haha
(14:58:43) Eli Dow: down with hair!
(14:58:45) cfusion997: right

Kyle I have one response for you:
“Hey, here comes my friend, shaven fignuts. Perhaps he will join us for a vigorus game of badmitton. That fellow can sure wack a shuttlecock.”

In other news I added a screenshot to my sidebar, you should check it out since my wallpaper is pretty metal.

It’s one of those amazing weekend mornings that sneak up on me somtimes. I got up early this morning. Now I’m getting through some odds & ends that I’ve been meaning to tie up. It’s cool outside with some steady rain. I have a pot of good coffee and a purring cat resting on my feet. To round it out Iron & Wine is playing quietly in the background.
Good Morning

So another thanksgiving has come and gone. I spent this one in Hydeville, VT with my folks, alicia, and adrian. Dinner was great and it’s been relaxing, tristram is coming up later today to chill, so that will be nice too.
In a new thanksgiving tradition my mom got a bit trashed and started calling family members which is always solid entertainment. After dinner we all had cheap cigars and went to the bar in front of my parents store called ‘the dog’. I had lots of cheap beer on top of thanksgiving dinner (awesome feeling) and beat my family at pool. So that happened.
In other news I found a recipe for cooking salmon in the dishwasher. This is how it went:

First get salmon. You also need some seasoning for the fish, tinfoil, and a dishwasher. It also is quite important to check the expiration date on the salmon … this would have been useful knowledge for me at this point.

Now you need to get a 12″ square of tinfoil. Place the fillet on the tinfoil and cover with whatever you want. I used lemon juice and some spices that looked appropriate. The actual recipe calls for a dill sauce, so maybe next time I’ll try that.

Now you want to seal the salmon in the tinfoil. Crimp all the edges and try to force all air out of the tinfoil. Use a second layer of foil if you need, you really don’t want this getting filled with water or releasing fish particles into your dishwasher. Put them on the top rack and let it got for a normal cycle.

Now the moment of truth, take it out and unwrap the salmon carefully. You don’t want to get burned by fish steam. It should be a nice pinkish color I guess. Thanks to buzzco’s googling we discovered that the skin (which is face down in the photos) should lift easily off the fish when it is done.

However, as I was saying before check the expiration date FIRST. You see, when I was checking to see if the fish was well poached I ran a fork along the skin to lift it off. It did come right off but it also released a fair amount of brown goo and a lovely oder that made the cats run away. Needless to say I didn’t eat the salmon but I do plan on trying this again. I think I’ll need to add some vegtables to their own tinfoil pouch in order to cut down on the water waste (although I’m told it uses much less energy than baking the fish). Also, I was a little concerned that my dish washer would smell like a pornstar’s changing room after this one but … GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!, the tinfoil seemed to hold it back. That is all.

Tim, I can one up the fish in a bag post. On thursday I had chili out of a vending machine at work. Desprate move of a suicidal man? Anyway turns out it was pretty good. Came with corn bread…

so far:
I have an excellent bagel sammich and a good coffee
My bagel has bacon on it.
My thesis is all but done
I’m not dead tired as usual
This dog can freakin’ skateboard .
It is without a doubt the little things in life that get you by.

“Your office smells like synthetic waffles.”
– Jay Brenneman

So, like usual it’s been too long since I posted. Lots of things have happend etc, etc. First of buzzco and I beat X-Men legends. kinda anti climatic, but a cool game either way. Tim came up for a day last weekend and we damaged ourselves with suicide wings from planet wings.
So I lied about lots of stuff happening…
In other news I lost the password to zoneedit.com (they manage my dns entries) and now I can’t get unsure.org released. They have a ‘call me and tell me my password’ they haven’t called yet. All this after setting up an old hp as a router/server for buzzco and unsure.
Do any of you guys use gmail? It’s my primary email address at this point but I havn’t found a good way to check it. I tried the mail notification applet but I think it’s the most horrible piece of software ever. If I start my machine without a network connection it just blinks, and blinks, and blinks. All the while refusing to check my mail. If it does work it just tells me with a notification window. I had it set to open firefox but once in a while it thinks I didn’t actually check the mail and just keeps opening firefox. Buzzco suggested just making it my home page, but I don’t know about that one.

Since a couple people have asked me about it here’s what you need to do to get Java applets running on Ubuntu in Firefox.
First get and install a JDK sun or ibm, doesn’t matter. Not blackdown. Now put this in your .bashrc or /etc/profile:
export JAVA_HOME=”/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/”
export JDK_HOME=”${JAVA_HOME}”
export PATH=”${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}”
Finally as root:
ln -sf /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so