eric’s extremeboredom

ID Software released Linux binaries of Doom III today! Read about it here and download it here!

Never run a mozilla browser using sudo, there is a bug that will indefinitely delete your bookmarks file (and possibly other files as well). Hopefully this will be fixed before Firefox 1.0. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205053 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251456 There’s also a new security patch for Firefox, download it here.

In case you missed the debate last night, someone stuck a cupple torrents up on suprnova. I thought that both candidates sounded very confident with what they were saying, and find it hard to believe that either one was able to convince undecided voters (although many people say Kerry came out on top). The only [...]

I was having a problem with gnome not letting me change the assoceated application for a filetype with the “Open With” tab in nautilus. I found out from someone in #gnome that GNOME (which is using the very poorly documented Freedesktop.org shared mime spec) stores this information in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. The directory this file is in [...]

I’ve decided to create a new section on here for World News, where I can rant about the mess Bush has left the country in, as well as anything else going on in the world. One note, I’ve updated my post regarding the possiblity of a draft with some new information reflecting recent press, so [...]

So I’ve decided to start blogging about Meshwork, since thats what I spend most of my time on anyway. I’ve created a seporate category for Meshwork Development posts, however I’ll mark all posts under “Software Development” as well. I finally got around to get socket< -->socket encryption up and running in Meshwork. It’s currently 192-bit [...]

I was just informed by a neighbor of S.89, a bill proposing to reinstate the draft. A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and [...]

I saw that ID has finally released a (Windows) demo of Doom 3. Hopefully Linux binaries come next?

So I noticed FastOpen on GnomeFiles today, which is a simplified (and much faster) run dialog replacment for gnome. It’s written in C# so I can hack it to do exactly what I need, which is basically nothing (I dont like automatic completion as you type, etc). For some reason I never thought about remapping [...]

From http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000544.html: 122411 – Mozilla does not have a kitchen sink 114061 – Red star default desktop icon is offending to many people. 222306 – Bird head of real Firebird logo in page header logo looks like a goose on fire. 233525 – Background of Download Manager looks like one-finger-salute. 246760 – New default theme [...]