Thinking Sands

Category: General

  • Again…

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    The server was compromised again. great job script-kiddie, you ruined my already sucky day. Since there’s only one important file on my site, I’ve re-uploaded that. And I’ve started making a local copy of all the pictures in my gallery for the full wipe I’m doing ASAP. The bad thing about Debian for incompetents like…

  • Internet Explorer

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    Internet Explorer sucks! … That is all

  • Upgrade Complete

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    The new WordPress is very nice. Unfortunately either planet or liferea marked all my stuff as new again.

  • Paranoia

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    Browsing things like mysql.log and access.log is just scary. People try to hack into my blog all the time it seems. I think I’m going to take this time to upgrade WordPress and change my password again. I hope the planet doesn’t get stupid an mark every post I’ve made as new.

  • Hotdog suit

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    I just receiveda flyer for a party by a guy in a hotdog suit. That’s not something that happens every day.

  • Website overhaul

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    Since my website was attacked I’ve been working on security and making a real site instead of just a wiki. I looked into JSP and mod_python to see what crazyness I could come up with. JSP didn’t work very well since Debian stable only has Java2 1.1. Stable’s mod_python is pretty old so I can’t…

  • So much work

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    Currently my Todo list is: – Finish Ritsumeikan Application – Finish CS449 Project 2 – Do Eavesdropping JSL28 – Do R/W #3 – Do R/W #2 – Turn in R/W #1 – Do Logic proofs 110-210 This is huge. Project 2 is due in less than 24 hours. And the Ritsumeikan essay is due Tuesday.…

  • Helping out in iPod Linux

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    Once I finish my applications for Konan and Ritsumeikan I’m going to start working on getting linux on my iPod. As long as it can play MP3s I’ll be happy. If I can get it to play Oggs in real-time I’ll be even happier. I really want this to happen so I’m giving it my…

  • Blog spam sucks

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    I just erased a shit-load of blog spam. I didn’t even know it existed until yesterday! The internet is a sad place… Lain now has Swap! I didn’t even notice it was missing swap. oh well. Last weekend I went to the farm to visit my grandma and grandpa for Thanks Giving. It was pretty…

  • I can’t belive how complicated this is…

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    I’m currently trying to get Quod Libet (My new favorite mp3/ogg player) to have multimedia key support (Play, Stop, Prev, Next buttons on some keyboards) I can’t believe how complicated this is. Actually it’s pretty simple to understand what is going on in Muine’s source code for multimedia key support. But the ammount of stuff…