• Ubuntu - Sun JDK Graphical Install Only?

    Posted on September 20, 2006

    I was just installing the Sun JDK on my workstation at the office, and when I tried the obvious: apt-get install sun-java5-bin got an error message about not being able to find a license. Interesting, thought I, “there must be a higher level package wrappering this whole thing that deposits... [Read More]

  • Two Blue Pills with a Whiskey Back Please

    Posted on September 18, 2006

    The surreal thought for today: Lawrence Fishburne, Morpheus from The Matrix, was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee’s Playhouse. I was wondering why Pee Wee ended up in the Adult Swim lineup. I get it now. Joke’s over. You can make it stop.

  • SpellBound Firefox Plugin, Dev Version

    Posted on September 18, 2006

    Apparently Firefox 2 has inline spellcheck right out of the box. Werd, I’m looking forward to it. However, my Ubuntu systems still have Firefox 1.5.x and I don’t want to start mucking around now that I’ve just started accepting I don’t need to build everything by hand. Start pulling on... [Read More]

  • Subversion Book

    Posted on September 15, 2006

    I’ve been giving myself a svn refresher so that we can move over to it, and I hit this in the maintenance tools documentation page and it made me laugh out loud: [Read More]

  • You've Stayed Up Too Late When

    Posted on September 10, 2006

    You know you’ve acidentally let your bedtime slip too close to sunrise when you’re flipping through the onscreen TV guide and MTV actually lists “Music Videos” as currently showing. No need to look at the time, when a thing like that happens you know that either the sun is about... [Read More]

  • Hilton Ninja

    Posted on September 6, 2006

    Paris Hilton has been named an honorary member of the CDC Ninja Strike Force. A very high honor indeed. No word yet on wether she’ll also get the ability to blow shit up with heat rays from her eyes, like the other Ninja Strike Force members are able to do.... [Read More]

  • HOPE Six Audio Online

    Posted on August 25, 2006

    The full set of audio from the HOPE six conference is online now. The conf happened just before DEFCON and I hear it has some fantastic stuff that didn’t show up in Vegas. Download and share!

  • http_load for Request Replay

    Posted on August 23, 2006

    The presentation that Rasmus gave at OSCON this year seems to have kicked some ass. I missed the conf, but got a bunch of interesting info from the slides. In particular I hadn’t used http_load before. Part of what I’ve been doing at AdMob is taking a look at performance... [Read More]

  • Linux Lappy

    Posted on August 18, 2006

    It’s just about New Laptop Time. Not quite, but almost. Being a Linux only user it’s always an adventure trying to figure out what hardware to get. Hardware support has definitely gotten better under Linux, but figuring out what actually lives inside the system you’re thinking about picking up at... [Read More]

  • ZeroOne San Jose Art Festival

    Posted on August 7, 2006

    This week (August 7th to 13th 2006) is the ZeroOne Arts Festival in San Jose. There was a great presentation at Future Salon by one of the ZeroOne staff members where he tossed out a dizzying number of art projects that blend in technology in tantalizing ways. And if the... [Read More]