Welcome!
Well I finally found my round-tuit and got a preliminary site back up and running. This server is sitting at work in a nice data center rack so hopefully it will last longer then one sitting at my house.
Since I can't be bothered with writing a website from the ground up I "cheat" and use frameworks and other pre-packaged things. Oh like Symfony for the base framework, Gallery and SquirrelMail do what they do. Finally Perl does what it does best and deals with text. For those of you keeping track, this is generation #3 of my site.
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EDID Fun
Recently I had to re-install the mythtv box for the living room as the drive died in it. So the install goes fine and everything works.... almost.... the resolution is stuck at 640x480 on that nice 37" flat panel. Oh yeah that old Geforce FX 5200 card for some odd reason...
Russian Spam
Somewhere along the line the Russian spammers have decieded that <whatever>-list@gnome.org would be a good bunch of addresses to spam. Now normally this wouldn't be an issue, however seeing as I am on the moderating team it has increased the traffic to my mailbox, grrr...
sfPropelRouteCollection and method_for_criteria
Recently while working with Symfony, and mucking about with the sfPropelRouteCollection class I had an action that queried a table with some foreign keys. Which is no big unique thing, and fairly typical. With propel you can get the related objects fairly easy as well which again is nothing ground shaking....
Blender soft bodies and swings.
While pursing this [http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Soft_Bodies] page on the blender site, I came across the section titled [Swing]. Hey this sounds neat I thought however the instructions are not very clear there and I could not seem to get them to work as written.
Not being deterred I decided to see if I...
Mouse Possessed?
So I've been using these nifty optical mice since they came up with the ones that don't require that specialized mirrored mouse pad. Sometimes I wonder if the bloody things are possessed by some evil spirt or something. This seems to be related to lots of incremental small movements, oh like...
