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Archive for March, 2003

Finally, the affordable variants of the eMagic Logic Audio line are updated to OS X friendly version 6.. I believe there have been v5 updaters to make the apps run on X for a little while, but I generally heard that v6 is the first that really runs well on X.
Now, I just need [...]

Monday, March 31st, 2003. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

manila2Conversant

Seth just posted about a Manila to Conversant conversion tool I started and passed of to him. I converted the content from our old Babies page to our new Family page with it and it did the job just great. I still had to go back and do some stuff manually to be [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Need dedicated server space in San Antonio?

If anyone out there needs dedicated server space in the San Antonio, Texas area get in touch…we may be able to work something out. Work has an extremely under-utilized T1 down there in a location where cheaper access is not an option ( no DSL, etc. ). I’m looking to offset that overhead [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

POPFile

Aaahhh, much better. I have some real spam filtering going on now…plus more — courtesy of POPFile, a free, Perl-based cross-platform POP proxy with Bayesian filtering. POPFile will work with any email client, has a nice web-based administration/training interface — and supports multiple buckets! Most bayesian spam filters only allow you to [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

RE: Vader’s rath

What a pain. Spent much of my weekend and today chasing problems with Active Directory caused by rebuilding Vader. RID’s, PDC masters, Global Catalogs, blech!!!!
Also, appearently existing client printers all choked certain applications even though they ended up pointed to the same network shares. We had to delete every client printer and [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Image manipulation with Python

I installed the Python Imaging Library today. Had the need to prepare several sizes of output from our source library of product images at work. Previously, the designer here was doing it with Photoshop actions, but we needed a little more intelligence applied to the conversion process…so I was looking for a script-based [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Vader’s rath

I’ll be spending Saturday at work this week. Bummer. Our primary Windows server, a Dell Poweredge 2400 named VADER, while functioning, is showing many signs of needing the OS — Windows 2000 Server — reinstalled. I’d rather do it before it craps out completely. Seems the network functions better when the [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

Dave not using Frontier anymore?

Newsflash…apparently Dave Winer isn’t programming in Frontier or Radio anymore! Just ask Seth.
[EDIT] Also, it seems Dave’s permalinks aren’t working. The post in question was…

[from Scripting.com] I have a confession to make. I never use regular expressions to parse XML. My programming environment has a very good XML compiler, very nicely integrated. It’s [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

New Spider-Man?

Reports say Toby Maguire may pull out of the Spider-Man sequel because of back problems. Too bad, I thought he was very good in the first. The article says Jake Gyllenhaal has been lined up as a possible replacement. I didn’t know who he was so I looked up his website. [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003. Posted in Movies | No Comments »>

No agonizing hanging weights

I clearly need better spam filters to avoid having to read phrases like that.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

War

I’m not sure what to say about the war with Iraq, so I guess I won’t say much, other than that I wish it weren’t happening and that I don’t think it needs to happen. Everyone seems to think this will go as smoothly as Desert Storm. I just don’t think that’s true.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Coffee pot

I broke the pitcher of my Mr. Coffee a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been brewing a cup at a time with a melita since then. Now I’ve got a fancy new Starbuck’s Aroma model coffee pot, with thermal carafe — courtesy of my buddy Tom, who got it for fixing an expresso [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>

Bonded Trailers

They occassionally take on side ventures out at my work. The latest is a horse trailer and farm supply lot. I put together a Conversant site for the lot, that can be maintained by the salesperson out there. Very simple to do with Conversant’s custom fields and a little ingenuity. Check [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

WROX dies?

Jim points to the seeming demise of WROX, the computer book publisher. A shame. Most of my recent computer book purchases have been WROX titles. I’ve found that lately they’ve done a much better job of putting together the kind of quick intro/good reference books I need than any of the other [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Family tech support

This article at Slashdot had me rolling on the floor…luckily my family is a little more saavy. OK, a lot more saavy.

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