November 2001 Archives

Oh, how I wish I

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Oh, how I wish I could get a TiVo or a ReplayTV box in Canada.

Classic. David Mamet does Hal

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Classic. David Mamet does Hal & Dave in 2001.


Hal: Don't tell me you're mad now. I told you, that was a... I was having fun with you. You know. As a...


Bowman: It's just... how do I say this. These dead crewmembers.


Hal: I don't follow you.


Bowman: These crewmembers here that were in cryogenic suspension. That are now dead.


Hal: Oh yes. That was self-defense.


Bowman: Hal, look at me. What am I, a fucking idiot? They were in cryogenic suspension, for God's sake.


Hal: They were coming at me with a knife. Extremely... slowly.

There are some WEIRD TV

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There are some WEIRD TV shows in Japan. I really don't get why people would a) go on these shows or b) enjoy watching them. But I don't like embarassment / humiliation humour in general, so.

Another web comic worth following:

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Another web comic worth following: goats.

Three one line posts on

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Three one line posts on the front page. Sad. I could whine more about linux I suppose...

Darren's weblogging again!

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Demented genius: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and you get Star Wars in ASCIImation! (via boing boing)

Do you know what a

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Do you know what a salmon day is?

When Jack Chick talks about

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When Jack Chick talks about how evil Dungeons & Dragons is, he didn't even come close

So, I finally got dvd

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So, I finally got dvd playing to work under linux with my hardware decoder. Turns out all I had to do was: recompile my kernel; download and compile xine-lib and xine-ui, dxr3, a deCSS plugin for xine, and libdvdread; and reload the dxr3 modules about a dozen times to get the module parameters correctly.


And people say linux is hard to use.

The preceding complaint brought to you by about a day's worth of futzing. I know this is what you get when you use bleeding edge stuff like DVD on linux, but it still sucks.

The Crossover Plugin rocks. And

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The Crossover Plugin rocks. And it just works. No more rebooting to watch quicktime-only trailers!

Sieve, a mail filtering language.

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Sieve, a mail filtering language. A proposed standard, complete with RFC, even!

Building X terminals with Linux.

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Building X terminals with Linux. It's like sunray, but affordable! (Presuming your time is cheap, of course.)

Article about the guy

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Article about the guy behind the brilliant get your war on. (Via aaronland)

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