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Sun, 31 Dec 2006

Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture
I just read Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. This book is VERY important, and VERY good. I am not much of a book reviewer, but I do know a great book when I read it. I couldn't stop reading this book; I haven't had time to surf the web, listen to music, blog, podcast, watch TV or anything this past week, but I made time to finish this book once I started reading it. If you've never cared about the public domain, or if you have never given second thought to how our culture is made, PLEASE read this book. If you want a history lesson on the subject of intellectual property rights and the United States Constitution, PLEASE read this book. If you just care about freedom, PLEASE read this book. If creativity or innovation is important to you, PLEASE read this book. Lawrence argues articulately and with passion, citing countless examples, and clearly details, while offering solutions, what is happening to our our culture, our public domain, and our future.

This book is alarming and informative. Read this book, and you will have your eyes appropriately widened to this very important issue.

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Mon, 25 Dec 2006

Merry Christmas
The man to whom I'm going to introduce you was not a scrooge, he was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn't believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas Time. It just didn't make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He just couldn't swallow the Jesus Story, about God coming to Earth as a man.

"I'm truly sorry to distress you," he told his wife, "but I'm not going with you to church this Christmas Eve." He said he'd feel like a hypocrite. That he'd much rather just stay at home, but that he would wait up for them. And so he stayed and they went to the midnight service.

Shortly after the family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper. Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound...Then another, and then another. Sort of a thump or a thud...At first he thought someone must be throwing snowballs against his living room window. But when he went to the front door to investigate he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They'd been caught in the storm and, in a desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his large landscape window.

Well, he couldn't let the poor creatures lie there and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter, if he could direct the birds to it. Quickly he put on a coat, galoshes, tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on a light, but the birds did not come in. He figured food would entice them in. So he hurried back to the house, fetched bread crumbs, sprinkled them on the snow, making a trail to the yellow-lighted wide open doorway of the stable. But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs, and continued to flap around helplessly in the snow. He tried catching them...He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around them waving his arms...Instead, they scattered in every direction, except into the warm, lighted barn.

And then, he realized that they were afraid of him. To them, he reasoned, I am a strange and terrifying creature. If only I could think of some way to let them know that they can trust me...That I am not trying to hurt them, but to help them. But how? Because any move he made tended to frighten them, confuse them. They just would not follow. They would not be led or shooed because they feared him.

popularized by Paul Harvey

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Fri, 22 Dec 2006

ATI Radeon Mobility Xpress 200M 3D accleration--finally!
YEEHAW! For the first time since upgrading to edgy, I now have 3D acceleration on my laptop with my ATI Radeon Mobility Xpress 200M! And the best part is, I am using the most up to date driver, 8.32.5! As an added bonus, I am able to use the 128 mbs of memory on the card as well as an additional 128 mbs of shared memory! This is the first driver from ATI since 8.24.8 to work with this card. Maybe AMD is gonna do good work with ATI. I hope so. Progress, even after a year, is always nice.

Yea me!

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Time magazine's person of the year: me (and you)
Time magazines person of the year mentions linux, open source software, and podcasting in the middle of the article. I told my wife I was named person of the year by Time magazine; she was not impressed.

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Thu, 21 Dec 2006

dang that looks better!
I saw this post about how to enable smooth fonts on ubuntu linux, and tried it out. WOW! This made a major improvement. I am sure that this works on on distros other than ubuntu. I had a little trouble at first as I copied and pasted from the instructions on the page mentioned above; the quotation marks were wrong. After fixing that, there was a very noticable improvement.

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I don't know my right from left
I just realized that every post where I reference a link on the right hand side of the page was in error. The links that I referenced have always been on the left hand side of this page. duh.

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TLLTS #172 impromptu guest appearance
I had the privilege of being an improptu guest on last night's (12/20/2006) episode #172 of The Linux Link Tech Show. Honestly I don't make a good guest, and often wonder why on earth the TLLTS guys would ask me to call in. I don't feel like I am an entertaining guest. and feel like I don't have anything interesting to say. Chess Griffin, host of The Linux Reality podcast was also a guest; he is far more entertaining.

I would like to thank Dann, Allan, Pat, and Linc for having me on the show, and Chess as well for sharing "air time" with buffoon like me. Thanks you all for your wonderful contributuions to the GNU/Linux/FLOSS world, and for being nice to me too.

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Sat, 16 Dec 2006

latest (2.5.19) fvwm2 with translucency patch for ubuntu edgy
From the fvwm website:

"FVWM is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Development is active, and support is excellent."

Get it here or from the link on the right hand side of this page.

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Fri, 15 Dec 2006

One year anniversary,
or is that birthday. Whatever, it was one year ago today that I posted the first lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast.

--"I don't know what I am doing" Brad Sucks

--"What a long strange trip it's been" Jerry Garcia

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Thu, 14 Dec 2006

Podcast 26 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

beep media player x, peer to peer apps, pybackpack, light scribe, afuse sshfs automounter, fvwm2, bash history tips, and dave gets all mushy about the one year anniversary of this podcast.

lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 26

lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 26 ogg vorbis format

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fvwm with translucency patch for ubuntu

afuse sshfs automounter for ubuntu

debian forums

make-live debian cds

bmpx

afuse sshfs automounter

google front end to mp3 search

ssh via non-standard ports

fvwm2

way cool fvwm howto

taviso's .fvwm2rc file

another fine example .fvwm2rc file

fvwm-translucency.diff

debian menus in fvwm root menu

fvwm config and screenshot forum

How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux

damn small linux

fvwm howto

fluxbox howto

take control of your bash history

bash shell shortcuts

pybackpack

Triggering software events from hardware changes with HAL and Ivman

ivman howto

How to auto-mount removable devices in GNU/Linux

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afuse sshfs automounter for ubuntu edgy
From the afuse website:

"Afuse is an automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE. Afuse currently implements the most basic functionality that can be expected by an automounter; that is it manages a directory of virtual directories. If one of these virtual directories is accessed and is not already automounted, afuse will attempt to mount a filesystem onto that directory. If the mount succeeds the requested access proceeds as normal, otherwise it will fail with an error."

Get it here or from the link on the right hand side of this page.

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fvwm2 with translucency patch for ubuntu edgy
From the fvwm website:

"FVWM is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Development is active, and support is excellent."

Get it here or from the link on the right hand side of this page.

posted 21:05 [/computers/linux/foss/fvwm] permanent link

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Wed, 06 Dec 2006

Comment spam continued
After wrestling more than 4 hours with authen::captcha, GD module, some kind of carp:cgi thingey, interpolate_fancy, and a couple of different captcha blosxom plugins, I have given up (for now) on the blosxom, captcha plugin route, and am sticking with my somewhat lame, brute force, home-grown solution. I have made the math problem in reverse polish notation, assumming that scum-sucking comment spammers don't speak rpn. I am not sure how well this will work, but we will see. Sorry for the extra step, but it is necessary. If you can't read rpn, just email me your comments. Thanks.

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Mon, 04 Dec 2006

Let's see how this works....
I have taken crude (and quick) mesasures to combat comment spam. Time will tell. More than likely this will eventually fail. I didn't take the time to get a proper CAPTCHA blosxom/pollxn plugin up and running. This was quicker. If anyone is reading this, let me know how it worked (i.e. leave a comment)

Podcast 26 will be out sometime in the next 7 days or so :-)

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