Debian & Flash 9
Flash 9 was released a few days ago and Debian has packages to install it! But, it, at least for me, hasn’t made it’s way out to the repositories. You can download the package using wget: wget...
View ArticleGlasses & Beer
My last pair of glasses broke!. I’ve been using an old, scratched-up pair for the past few weeks. Went to the Optician’s yesterday (Saturday) for the eye-exam; my perscription hasn’t changed which is...
View ArticleJetspeed build
Is borked! First, changes to some spring projects that it depends on broke the Jetspeed. Jetspeed uses Maven 2, so the spring it uses is an imported Maven project which had a depenceny that wasn’t...
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BIOS & Linux
2498 My desktop at home is a system I assembled myself: CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Memory: 2GB of Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC...
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Cold!
It’s cold, and I’ve a cold and it’s the weekend! FECK! Was supposed to head down to NYC to see cousin John whose visiting the States for a couple of weeks. Looks like I’ll head down there next weekend...
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Debian, Ubuntu & iPods
These days there isn’t much you have to do to configure iPod support for Linux. On either Debian or Ubuntu you need to make sure your a member of the plugdev group. To add yourself to the goup do the...
View ArticleJSR-168 Portlets
Good article from BEA about how to write JSR-168 compliant Portlets: http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/12/writing-jsr-168-portlets.html
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Ghouls and Ghosts!
Fun looking game: http://www.valarsoft.com/ramuso/?dpage=pagine&page=pagine&pagID=8 Used to play the original game, that this is based on, when I was a wee bit younger. Going to see if I can...
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Amsterdam!
Was in Amsterdam, NL, a few years ago for a friend’s birthday. While deleting old e-mails came across a link to this great overview of Amsterdam: How not to get hit by a bike. The sad part is that...
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Sunset
Sunset over the Charles River about a month ago, and what feels like a zillion degrees! The day I took that pic it was as warm as a nice spring day, today it’s Artic cold. I wish it were that warm now,...
View ArticleMythTV & Debian
HOWTO on now to MythTVise your Debian system: http://www.wilson-stowe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27
View ArticleAmazon sells animal fighting magazines and claims it’s a free speech issue?
WTF? … magazines such as Feathered Warrior and Gamecock that run advertisements for dogs and birds bred for fighting, knives designed to be attached to their legs, and fighting events in states where...
View ArticleEnlightement e17 on Debian & Ubuntu
Update, April 17th, 2008: This post is out of date, for a Debian update see: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/ See newer instructions for Ubuntu here:...
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The Pogues
Going to see The Pogue at The Paradise tonight. Should be good craic. On other notes, Jetspeed 2.1 was released on March 3rd, so putting together an internal build for use at work. Can’t believe that...
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Compiling EIGENSOFT on Ubuntu Januty
These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft 3 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Update, Eigensoft 4 is available and should compile on more recent versions of Ubuntu:...
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Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu Karmic & Lucid
If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable)....
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