Adam's Blog

So Eugenia IM'ed me and told me that GNOME was pretty insistent about the fact that they wanted to see Gnomefiles clean up the URLs to make them more friendly. She asked me how hard the move would be. Having already dug pretty deep into GF code, I knew that it wouldn't take too much effort to clean things up. So, just a few days later, I'm pretty sure we've gotten all the bugs ironed out. Apps are now accessed like this: http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/[appname] where [appname] is, obviously, the name of the application. There were a few challenges. For one, the plus character has significance in the URL, so apps like, say, GTK+, are inaccessible. So now we dynamically convert those titles to something like GTK_Plus. Also, spaces are switched to underscores. The one thing that burned me was that some apps have names that include strings like Sunbird/Calendar, which is not only URL significant, but it also breaks the code. So unfortunately, we have convert those to pipes right now, so an app such as the previously mentioned Mozilla Sunbird/Calendar is now available at http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Mozilla_Sunbird|Calendar. Until I have a better way to pull this off, / becomes a pipe. However,...

I'm trying Picasa Web as an alternative to flickr, which doesn't integrate with iPhoto yet (well, at least not with free software). Here's a link to the Honeymoon photos I uploaded. Preliminary amatuer wedding pictures can be found at Robin's page and Keith's flickr photostream.

I have noticed that over the last two years or so, one of my Linux server's clocks is constantly wrong. Sometimes, it's off by as little as a minute, but sometimes it's up to 20 minutes off. When I check it today, it was nearly an hour off. Since it runs many cron jobs, including sending some "reminder" emails to people to enter data into a database, it's a problem. Here are the steps I took to fix the problem. First, I created a script, "clocksync.sh." This is the contents: ntpdate clock.redhat.com /sbin/hwclock --systohc Then I setup a cronjob to run this once a day. Even running it twice within 5 minutes, the time gets adjusted. This has fixed the issue well enough, but does anyone know why or how the time could get off by so much? It's a Dell 400SC server.

What a great video. It's in Arab, but there are subtitles. Link to video @castup.net

I'm back. The wedding was incredible. The honeymoon was fantastic. Pictures will follow. Let me record some thoughts from the last week: Sleeping in a hammock on the beach with a Pina Colada is the best relaxation technique ever. If Reggie Bush had waited even another day to sign with the Saints, he would have sacrificed more with New Orleanians than any amount of money could replace. Ann Coulter is the most hateful bitch ever. I won't use "the C word" on this blog, but dammit, she deserves it! She spews negativity. She has set up this idea of "the liberal" and attacked it, despite the fact that it really doesn't exist, and used her vile toxicity to sell books. ...Of which she's done a damn good job. When she called liberals "godless," but then refused to "make it personal" or name even a single person who fit into that category, she made a fool of herself. That's like saying "Christianity is a religion of sinners," but then when asked about individual Christians, saying "I'm not making this personal, this is about Christianity in general." God she sucks. The fact that there are people out there who are sympathetic to...

This is my last post before the wedding. I'm officially off the osnews-crew list until I get back, I'm done with everything online, I'm setting up my "out of office" stuff. But before I go, here's a list of fun links. First up, what happened to Hostess Chocodiles? Chocodiles were essentially chocolate covered white-cake Twinkies. They used to be on sale everywhere when I was a kid, but now I can't find them. Enter freshchocodiles.com, who will gladly ship you a 10-box for a measley $9. I'm all over this when I get back. There's a script I want to check out called Links Thumbnails, which does the Yahoo!-like website thumbnail when you hover over a link. Look for that here soon. Well, that's all for now. See you all in a week and a half.

It looks like I won't be doing any more work on sethadam1.com before the wedding. I've got too much to do. In fact, I'm not sure why I'm even posting, I ought to just say "see ya" until I get back. But instead, I'll probably post one or two more times. It's INSANE how much stuff has to be done last minute. All these pre-wedding meetings and dinners and stuff the family wants me to set up. It's silly, really, but necessary I guess. Anyway, we're getting really close. In other news, I bought a Bluetooth mouse for my MBP. It will help me clean up the desk. Also, we bought a new Canon Powershot yesterday to take on the honeymoon. Unlike my old Kodak Easyshare, it mounts in OS X and lets me see the photos before I download them. Plus, it's gorgeous.

I really want this stand for my MBP. It's great, it angles up the keyboard, it will make the screen angle differently, and it appears to have nice grippy things on the bottom so as not to scratch up my desk. After the wedding, I may get one.

Four days til the wedding. This week is, understandably, insane. We have a boatload of stuff left to do - mostly cleaning and stuff that couldn't be done til the last second like the placecards and seating chart. So tonight I take the PDFs down to be printed and pray there are no more changes. We went to a wedding this weekend, and it was nice. It was a little "dress rehearsal" so we could see some things we want/wanted to do.

Yahoo News is carrying an article about a dude who was found in possession of over 500 Beatles tapes believed missing. According to the article, the tapes include "cover versions of songs such as Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart." These tapes are from sometime between 1969 and 1973, which in my eyes, is the heyday of Beatles creativity. Can you imagine -- new Beatles songs from the golden era? This is the kind of thing that amazes me. Had these songs been released in 1969, they'd be masterpieces today. Instead, like "Free as a Bird," people will hear them and think "ih... they're ok." Nothing by one band will ever match the run from 66 (Revolver) through 1970 (Let It Be). In between you've got Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album (or "The Beatles" for you purists), Yellow Submarine, and the magnificent Abbey Road. I would LOVE to hear some previously unheard stuff from that era.