thinkliberty

Kmail merges my patch in to svn trunk.

thinkliberty — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:52:00 +0000

Kmail has merged my patch in to SVN trunk, so it should be included in the next release.
Link to commit log

Genetic Engineering

thinkliberty — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:25:00 +0000

I have decided to become a genetic engineer today.

I am going to breed guppies I figure I can have a new batch of guppies every 3 months. They are like little rabbits that live underwater.

I will start from just regular guppies at the pet store. Yah it will take longer, but what is the fun of getting a pure-bred to start off with? I want my guppies to be hardy, I will make the fish tanks come to the edge of dangerous levels of ph, nitrate, nitrite etc... The weaker fish will die off and I will have a strong breed and they will be cockroach of the freshwater fish tank, a nuclear bomb could go off and they will still live. I also think a lot of the pure bred guppies out there are inbred, so they might be purebred, but what good is a pure-bred slack-jawed yokel?

What will I do with all the extra guppies that I decide not to keep? I have some friends with oscars that will gladly eat them.

amarok supports libnjb

thinkliberty — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:51:00 +0000

Amarok now has support for libnjb. So I can use my Creative Zen Touch with my music player in linux now :)

Patch for kmail

thinkliberty — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:27:00 +0000

Kmail does not name the opengpg message part, so if you send email to a person that uses a mail reader that does not support the pgp mime type, It will show up as an un-named attachment. For Outlook users it will show up as an un-named dat file.

I fixed it with this patch that I wrote:Click here to get patch

New toy

thinkliberty — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:46:00 +0000

I just got a Creative Zen touch mp3 player that has a Signal-to-Noise Ratio of 97dB.

There are a number software programs for it in linux, all of them work really good. After testing all of them and creating an ebuild for kionjb kionjb-0.2.4.ebuild, I think like Kzenexplorer the best,

Broadvoice sucks

thinkliberty — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:31:00 +0000

In my opinion anyone looking for a VOIP provider should stay away from Broadvoice for the following reasons:

* Emails to support@broadvoice.com never get answered. (at least none of mine have)
* Service is spotty. Sometimes your calls just stop working for no reason even though your device is registering with their server. Also sometimes you can't hear the other caller and sometimes they can't hear you.
* "features" suddenly stop working. You can email support, but they will never answer.
* Calls to support end in a fast busy most of the time... You never reach a human.
* when you do call support the music on hold is the worst music that you have ever heard.
* When broadvoice has a major outage they don't credit your account. You pay even if their service does not work for no fault of your own.
* Their voice quality has gone down hill (I have 1mb down and 300k up reserved specifically for broadvoice and MRTG shows my QOS never falls below this for my sipura. It's not a bandwidth problem on my end.)

My crappy motherboard gave out.

thinkliberty — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:42:00 +0000

My crappy motherboard died. I have an Epox 8rda3+ that will not stay turned on for more that 30 seconds. I checked the power supply with a volt meter and it is steady and strong. Then I checked the caps and notice that they are all bloated. The tops of the capacitors should be flat, but not on my crap for motherboard. The top of the caps are round. I have computers that I still own from way back and none of them have ever had this problem. This motherboard is maybe a year and a half old, if that.

I will never ever buy another Epox motherboard. In my opinion Epox motherboards are all junk and Epox sucks.

Death kneel of the 10th amendment

thinkliberty — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 07:05:00 +0000

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." -- 10th amendment to the US Constitution

Read the latest usurpation of states rights in the name of the "commerce clause" in the constitution:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/03-1454.pdf

The US government via act of congress can make possessing any item a federal crime. I forget why it took a constitutional amendment to outlaw alcohol and then another amendment to make it legal again.

/etc/localtime

thinkliberty — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:50:00 +0000

A recent emerge using ~x86 removed my /etc/localtime. I am not sure how it happen or why but the file was just gone.

A quick ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime made everything happy again.

Broadvoice failure to register

thinkliberty — Tue, 03 May 2005 15:03:00 +0000

I woke up this morning picked up the phone and realized that I had no dial-tone :( I think this is the second time this has happened. I am using VOIP provided by broadvoice. I wonder how long it has been off-line? It looks like I missed 2 phone calls.

I checked my net connection and everything was good. I could also log-in to my sipura and watch it fail to register every 15 seconds... I had this happen before, so I unplugged my VOIP adapter and plugged it back in, but it still would not register. (That is what fixed the problem last time...) I can hit my VOIP using ping and telnet'ed in to the port my sipura was supposed to be registering at.

I fired up the trusty packet sniffer and found my linksys router was dropping packets being sent to the sipura 2100 from the WAN... Although the through LAN everything was working like it should have. A quick reboot of my linksys wrt54g and I have dial-tone again!

It looks like I need to write an little application to monitor the sipura to email and page my cell phone when I lose connection, so I don't miss any phone calls.

Blogger comments are off

thinkliberty — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:33:00 +0000

During my weekly read through bugtraq looking for apps I use that might need updating I came across one for blogger.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/394523/2005-03-29/2005-04-04/0
"...an attacker may inject executable code into
the archive page by posting a comment to the weblog because, while
Blogger automatically strips most HTML from comments, they do not strip
processing instructions."

I guess it doesn't matter if you use blogspot to host your blog, but I don't. So I have disabled comments for now.

Well -- it looks like the gaim plugin uses fonts t...

thinkliberty — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:27:00 +0000

Well -- it looks like the gaim plugin uses fonts that are way to large. There is also no title. I guess the blogger plugin could use a little work.

I am posting this from the gaim plugin for blogger...

thinkliberty — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:24:12 +0000

I am posting this from the gaim plugin for blogger. It uses the api from www.blogger.com/api to make it work. I think I will look at the source code and make a blogger app using QT.

QT in Gentoo

thinkliberty — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:39:00 +0000

I had to manually set the path to QT libs in Gentoo to get QT designer and qmake working.

Add this to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file:

QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MAN
PATHLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH