eric’s extremeboredom

I spent at least 5 hours today trying to get a wireless network working for someone with no success. The original issue was they had a computer at the opposite end of the house than the AP and wanted to be able to use it on their new broadband. The AP was an ACTIONTEC DSL/Router/Access [...]

So I finally decided to make use of this $50 gift certificate for amazon.com I got, and picked two things to order. The total ended up being $0.42 thanks to a suprise $0.80 discount I got for searching A9.com one time. Just so nobody questions my integrity, the only reason I placed an order from [...]

…well, I guess I still wouldn’t have enough money to purchase a license, but that’s beside the point. So after I accidentally stepped on the one extension cord that everyone’s computer was plugged into at my LAN party the other night the Windows XP installation inside vmware that I do all my Meshwork development in [...]

In the GotMono IRC channel someone mentioned that the RSS feed in BlogX (An asp.net blogging application) doesn’t work in mono, so I set out to fix it… I found several problems with the code, as well as several questionable coding practices. Concatinating a “/” and another string instead of using Path.Combine (Windows and Linux [...]

So I was getting really tired of Firefox making my system run like poo on a stick so I decided to try the browser that comes with gnome, Epiphany. The first thing I noticed was the preferences window, or lack there of. The entire preferences window has a grand total of 16 options, giving you [...]

So I finally gave up trying to fix the MSI service, moved my data off my primary harddrive, and did a repair install of Windows. Everything worked great, booted up to a desktop and everything. Amazingly when I attempted to install something buit with MSI it gave me an error saying H:\ was not found! [...]

So I was playing around with a free opensource C# RSS Aggregator today and I noticed that my blog’s feed was missing quite a few items. A quick look at the source showed that whoever wrote RSS v2.0 support into bBlog was either high or just incredibly stupid, as half the elements were either missing [...]

So I was wondering if I could set “su” to only allow users in the “wheel” group to su to root like with BSD. I never thought I’d be lucky enough to find another reason why Richard Stallman (the hippy who started the FSF) is an idiot in the process. The man page pointed me [...]

So I managed to break the Windows Installer Service (MSI). This means I cannot install, “safely” uninstall, reinstall, or otherwise modify any program that uses it. Naturally because it’s built into Windows XP Microsoft didnt bother to create a way to reinstall it (why would they need to? It’s not like ANY of Microsoft’s code [...]