http://www.ross154.net The long, uneventful wait for Elite IV Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:15:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en …If it only had 640×480 (or better) instead of QVGA. …If only it had an accelerometer & magnetometer buried in that thick frame. …If only it were VGA/DVI, and powered by USB by default. …If only it had a halfway reasonable DDC reply. …If only the company that once made this knew it’s true place in the market. …If only [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=144 “You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy. You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed. You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=136 So, another Ant email arrives. One of about 50 each day. And sure enough, it’s never the quantity of email, it’s the quality. One of the latest little dittys is about Razer mice! I love’s me a good mouse, especially a left-handed one, and it turns out there’s an astroturfing contest!! Well, let me be the 29,351st [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=125 It’s that season again! Being delivered today is my new Sager 9280 notebook! I wonder how it’ll stand being indoctrinated into the Church of Debian Unstable.. Ha, notebook my chocolate starfish… This thing is more of a laptop, in the traditional sense of the word.  This monstrosity makes me think there should be yet another mobile-computing [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=108 (12:45:08 PM) mprov: it still seems like we’ll have to tackle HAL and XInput after we have a driver, but maybe understanding those layers will help us understand what, at the kernel level, we’re trying to achieve (12:46:58 PM) mprov: HAL depends on (d-bus, and then) udev to provide the manifestation of the /dev entry for [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=86 So, Twitter goes down and Facebook goes down, and suddenly people don’t know what hit them? I’ve never understood how so much of the Internet’s population can mistake a website for a public utility. It’s as if Twitter is supposed to be some deeply embedded component of the internet’s inherent architecture, and when it’s not [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=69 This is basically so I don’t forget how to fix this button. Bogdan Harjoc wrote on 2009-06-18: (permalink) What’s worse, the GNOME version from Jaunty doesn’t have gnome-network-preferences anymore (the “proxy configuration program”). It’s now called gnome-network-properties. Making a symlink is enough if you want to change the [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=65 VictorT Average Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 53 Quote: Originally Posted by smars It is easy – you are fans and so rule #1 applies: Thou shall buy all possible editions in all possible languages – including the £10.000.000,00 special edition supplied in a box of purest gold and comes with a meteor fragment [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=64 So, there’s nothing like watching both Microsoft and Apple getting kicked in the balls.. Here ye, here ye, the first Linux platform running Microsoft products.. or wait, EAS? Are you serious? On a Linux based phone?? Ouch.. Oh, but lets not forget everyone’s favorite.. Hi, I’m an iPod.. and I’m a.. uh.. what he said.. iTunes says… [...]]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=63 So we came to the conclusion one night; if the true and proper definition of Discordianism is indeed the ability to play the accordion poorly, then the majority of the human population of the planet is indeed Discordian! This is a great moral victory for our species.. Happy Birthday!! ]]> http://www.ross154.net/?p=62