Configuring and compiling a kernel under Linux is one of the rites of passage of geekdom.
This will mark go number 3 for me, but only because I messed up last time. You see, for the past few weeks my DNS server has been bombarded for root nameserver queries in an apparent DDoS attack on ISPrime. [...]
This is what I’ve been doing the past few hours. I know I’ll pay for it dearly in the essence of that I’ll not get any sleep, but it’s pretty cool. I’ve been poring through FCC records all night looking at the owners and locations of all communications towers in the area. It started when [...]
I just told Nick this, but there’s a hell of a line of storms on the way.
This is how I look at what’s coming. I have KML files of the NWS warning polygons and several assorted radar images loaded into Google Earth, including storm relative motion and wind velocity data. (Download here.) This is cool [...]
No wonder John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republicans made such a big deal out of the Weather Underground when the campaign was still ongoing. They’re selling this Wunder Radio thing on the App Store for $6! This is an outrage and I completely regret my vote for B. Hussein OBAMA.
Anyway, in all seriousness that [...]
My lack of sleep over the past two days caught up with me today. I passed out for a good 12 hours or so and was finally up at about 4:15 this afternoon. It’s like embedding a basketball into a wall, attaching it to your head via bungee cord, and then walking away from the [...]
I finally became fed up with Apache responding with just the 200 OK header and nothing else when browsing my web sites. Earlier, I built and configured Apache 2.2.9, PHP 5.2.6, and suPHP 0.6.3 from source on this server, and after several hours of tweaking, configuring, and recompiling, I think I have things just about [...]
There’s this new game out, I’ve played it, I want it. It’s called Audiosurf.
It’s kinda like a hybrid of Guitar Hero and Tetris for the PC, but you choose music out of your own collection to “surf” to. You fly this spaceship-looking thing on a three-lane road, weaving in and out of colored blocks (called [...]
So The folks at Nullsoft and AOL have released the Winamp 5.5 10th Anniversary Edition. I really like the new skin and the Milkdrop 2 visualization engine. Here’s a screenshot playing a Brad Sucks track:
End shameless plug. Download Winamp from winamp.com.
I like how I have blog posts with three main topics and the semicolonated (is that a word?) titles. Let’s get right to it.
The past couple of days, this very blog has had an incredible spike in traffic. After investigating I’ve found that it’s likely related to the recent release of Pidgin 2.2.0. You know… [...]
Whaaaaaat? This browser doesn’t sport one of those cool Web 2.0 names that drop the letter E? No, it doesn’t. Deal with it. This is another Mozilla-based browser by Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life. It’s kinda slow but worth a look. If you’re ready to move beyond tabs into the world of 3D [...]
