eric’s extremeboredom

I finally got so sick of dealing with bBlog’s lack of, well, anything that didn’t completely suck so I moved over to WordPress. Yeah, it’s not asp.net but everyone who I’ve talked to has liked it very much and I can see why. It’s simple, has tons of features, and at this point “just works”. [...]

We are (finally) getting around to cleaning up the datacenter in my office. There was so much crap piled on the floor you could not walk to the other end of the room. While cleaning I found a few interesting things: This is more modems than I *ever* wanted to see in the same place [...]

I got QuickThumbs creating smaller versons of images! Tomorrow I am going to go through and clean up all the code (it’s quite a mess) then post it up for download. Until then, check it out: Daily boredom links Note: I was asked by someone to start giving people credit for giving me these URLs, [...]

I got really sick of trying to maintain a photo gallery. Having to manually upload photos, catagorize them, set names, etc. is a big pain. All I wanted was to drag my photos over to my server using nautilus and have them be accessible to the web, and obviously mod_autoindex wasn’t quite sufficiant. So rather [...]

CameraUndelete GUI Hacking I helped Wade out with the GUI for his image recovery program. It is a very good example of how to write a Gtk# application that runs some background task but still need to let the user know what’s going on and keeping the UI responsive. Download and more information here. gMeshwork [...]

Tonight at around 12:30 everbody on my contact list who has Comcast cable internet in the North Seattle area lost connectivity (including myself) for about 30 seconds. I wonder what happened.

Last night the Seattle Mono User’s Group got together for a dinner meetup. There were around 20 people there including special guest Miguel De Icaza of Gnome/Ximian fame. It was a great group of people and everyone had a great time. It was nice to see so many people with interest in Gnome/Linux/Mono, and I [...]

I got the Ubuntu Linux CDs that I ordered a month or two ago. If you would like one please let me know. The x86 CDs have both an install disc and a LiveCD, often very usefull for debugging problems. In other, more exciting news, my network here is now fully IPv6-enabled. I am using [...]

If you have ever come across a time when you need to disable a Paned widget in such a way where the children are still enabled but the Paned’s resizer bar is not movable, here are two simple methods that will convert a Paned to a Box and back again, making it appear to the [...]

The Whitebox/RHEL RPMs that are linked to from the Subversion download page were built against a non-standard set of dependencies and are basically impossible to install without breaking your entire RPM tree (or using –nodeps which would most likely end up with the same result). These RPMs work much better: http://people.redhat.com/jorton/Taroon-svn/