eric’s extremeboredom

I finally put up the photo gallery. I’m using Gallery2, which is pretty nice. It’s currently got photos I took from the 4th of july fireworks show the other day, I’ll try to consistantly add more photos to it. For the slow among us, you click the link up top labled “Photos” to go there.

So I finally rented The Fifth Element and watched it. Awesome movie, I highly recomend it. I’m not sure if I can recomend renting it from blockbuster however. I didn’t know anything about the movie when I rented it other than the fact everyone I know highly recomended it. While in the car on the [...]

One of the things that has constantly bugged me since I switched to linux is that KDE does not use the freedesktop.org tray icon specification, but rather has it’s own. The result of this is that if you launch a KDE application that has a tray icon from gnome the icon is displayed in a [...]

There appears to be some (new?) AIM virus going around. From what I can tell it spreads using the IE ActiveX installer (isn’t that thing just so great?) Once infected, at the very least it overrides the user’s AIM profile and replaces it with the URL to the site with the virus, and sends a [...]

I got my LCD today, one day ahead of what FedEx’s site said. It rocks, big screen, small frame, very bright, NO dead pixels, no ghosting in UT2004. I’m very happy with it :). Now just what to do with these two 17″ CRTs…..

I got my new router that I ordered on the 13th (yes, it took 10 days, stupid amazon.com…). It’s the Linksys WRT54G. Now normally I would never allow a linksys product to come within 300 feet of my house but since this thing runs Linux I figure they couldnt have screwed it up that badly… [...]

Just incase you needed another reason to use Firefox, I found a very usefull extension someone wrote that happens to be a must for all you crazy slashdotters… How often do you end up at a website with a very useful artical but as soon as you click on it you are prompted to log [...]

So I just bit the bullet and ordered a 19″ LCD. With any luck I’ll be able to use it instead of the two giant heavy hot CRTs I’m using now. Product link

So I finally got around to playing around with some VoIP stuff. I set up Asterisk, a really cool open-source PBX system that runs on Linux and a Linux softphone called SJphone. I integrated Asterisk with with a few free services: FreeWorldDialup – A free SIP-based VoIP network that offers free domestic PSTN US calls! [...]

So I ported all the network map code from vb.net to C# and restructured it so it can be used cross-platform. It’s not completly done yet but I managed to get initial rendering to work! The basic idea now is that all the painting methods reside in NetworkMapCommon which is then inherited by a class [...]