Friday, November 30, 2007

Twitter on Facebook

Hey guess what, this is not as hard as I thought this was. It's two smegging setps.

1. Add twitter app on facebook

2. after you "Allow Twitter extended access to your Facebook account" You'll notice a link that says: Want Twitter to update your Facebook status? Click here! Do it, and that's it.\

I got this info from twistimage.com

Monday, November 26, 2007

Friday, November 23, 2007

RE: Bring. It. On.

Jono posted this at his blog
Everyone has a list of bands that they wish they got to see, but never did. One such band on my list is Carcass, one of the first death metal bands I ever heard, and a huge inspiration for my own music. Well, metal-fans, good news:

Legendary British death metal band, CARCASS, will reunite for next year’s Wacken Open Air festival. Bassist/vocalist, Jeff Walker, issued the following statement on behalf of the band:

“Well, they said it would never happen. In fact I said it would never happen. Then I noticed no one pays attention to what I say anyway and I sounded like an idiot…

“Myself, Jeff Walker, on bass and vocals, ‘the semi-legendary’ Bill Steer and Mike Amott on lead guitar and Daniel Erlandsson (ARCH ENEMY), filling in for Ken on drums, look forwards to mutilating your hearing”.


Bring. It. On. :)


So Jono here is my list:

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Bob was dead before I started listening to them
Sublime - Bradley was dead before I started Listening to them
Nirvana - Didn't have a chance to see them before Kurt died
John Lennon- Dead before I was born
Dead Kennedys - Break up and Lawsuit happened before I started listening to them

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Hot Damn gTwitter made it into universe!

I love gTwitter, there is no question about that, none. But you used to have to either compile it from source or go to getdeb.net to find a package for it. That was the past and this is the future!! I love when someone actually goes and packages my favorite apps.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

403'ed on Updates WTF?!?

I just tried to get the important security updates to Samba and I just got 403'ed, no shit.

Pics or it didn't happen you say, well here you go



again WTF

**UPDATE**

They are working on it... the "...packages have been disabled due to a regression." "Turns out there were more problems with the patch and all releases have been disabled. Updated packages for Dapper, Edgy, Feisty and Gutsy will be provided soon." --Jamie Strandboge

There is a lively discussion on Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/163116)

And please for the love of [insert deity here (if applicable)] do not go on #ubuntu and ask about this they will tell you !sambabug. And then ubotu will say "A defect has been identified in a recent security update and as a result the associated packages have been taken offline. Please disregard any 403 errors you may receive when trying to apply updates. They will disappear once this problem is resolved." and that is it.

**ANOTHER UPDATE**
It's all good now, updates are working now.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

5 easy steps to a romantic evening

Tonight I set up a fairly nice dinner for my girlfriend, it was a kinda spur-of-the-moment type of thing. So I figured that I would give everyone the benefit of what I learned.

Step 1: Clean up

Not take a shower you wanker, she really doesn't care if you a days grime on you. (note any more than one day does require a bath) but clean up the immediate area around where you will eat. Anyone that knows me in meatspace knows that my place is a constant wreak. One good thing about a messy house is a clean spot looks like an oasis.

Step 2: Candles

Candles will make that clean spot more of an oasis. Just turn off all the lights and she'll just gravitate to it

Step 3: Food

Food is the least of your issues. Any food will do, my last romantic evening (the one being discussed here) was honey buffalo wings and steak fries. Not a big deal.

Step 4: Wine

Vino is not necessary but hell get her drunk. Even bad wine will do. I had my first just off the shelf buy a bottle, take it home, and hope is doesn't taste like ass. Well that didn't go so well you can read my review of the wine at cork'd (friend me up!)

Step 5: Music

Music is another easy one, just join last.fm. With that you don't have to own shite for music. Here is what I did. I went to last.fm and just played any music tagged "jazz", you can choose music by artist, genre, or just what it was tagged (so web 2.0!). And it worked there was even this Nora Jones track that we both dugg. (BTW friend me up here also)

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Girlfriend v7.0 vs. Wife v1.0

I found this joke , and thought it was pretty funny the only problem was that it was written for a Windows/Non-Free audience. So I re-tooled it to be Free Software friendly. I also tried to make it more bug-report-esqe, so here is.
Package: Wife
Version: 1.0


Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0.5.3 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space, swap, and other valuable resources.

In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3.6 , Football 5.0.42 , Hunting and Fishing 7.5.9.4 , and Racing 3.6.5

I can’t seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favorite applications. I’m thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0.5.3 , but the shell script to uninstall doesn’t work on Wife 1.0 . Please help!

Thanks,
Troubled User…..

___________________ __________________
REPLY:
Troubled User:

This is a very common problem that men complain about.

Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0.5.3 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by the contributors to run EVERYTHING !!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 7.0.5.3 . It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed.

You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0.5.3 because Wife 1.0 is designed to not allow this. Try running "man Wife 1.0" and looking under Warnings-Alimony/Child Support . I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest compiling the plug-in "Yes Dear" to alleviate software augmentation.

The best course of action is to enter the command "sh /usr/bin/apologize.sh" because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.

Wife 1.0 is a great project, but it tends to be very high maintenance. Wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as Clean and Sweep 3.2.7 , Cook It 1.5.6b and Do Bills 4.2.8 .

However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program Nag 9.5.2. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to compile additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1.5 and Diamonds 5.0 !

WARNING!!! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3 . This package is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system!

Best of luck,

The Wife Team

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Mandriva's François Bancilhon and his weeny Letter to Steve Balmer

Ok assuming that François sent this to Steve it's ballsy, a little weeny but ballsy. After I repost his letter for you all to read, I'll rewrite it to reflect what I would have said.

Dear Steve,

Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.

I’m sure we’re way too small for you to know me. You know, we’re one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux. The last edition, Mandriva 2008 was seen as a pretty good version and we’re proud of it. You should give it a spin, I’m sure you’d like it. We also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an agreement with your company (nobody’s perfect).

We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was 17,000 machines. We had a good answer to their need: the Classmate PC from Intel, with a customized Mandriva Linux solution. We presented the solution to the local government, they liked the machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them, the fact that it was open, that we could customize it for their country and so on.

Then your people entered the game and the deal got more competitive. I would not say it got dirty, but someone could have said that. They fought and fought the deal, but still the customer was happy to get CMPC and Mandriva.

So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the machine are being delivered right now.

And then, today, we hear from the customer a totally different story: “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.”

Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.

Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?

Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one. You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win too.

cheers

François

PS: a message to our friends in Nigeria: it’s still time to do the right thing and make the right choice, you will get lots of support for it and excellent services!


Now here is how I would have went about it...

Dear Steve:

You rat bastard. What in the hell do you think you are doing! Look, once a deal is made you don't go and make another deal behind the scenes. What did you tell them that they would have to pay you anyway because of some bullshit patient. The last thing that CHILDREN need is for some "adult" to be making threats to their school. Schools need to be free to share and help others. What are they supposed to tell those children, "you need to share your toys, snacks, etc., but don't share software because if you do you are going to be sued." Great message dickwad.

Cheers,
threethirty