All articles from: September, 2009

Good Riddance Two-Way Radios

UCI two-way radio ban is good.

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Manual MythTV Schedule Update Script

I am in the unpleasant position of having to do a couple of things related to my MythTV server.

The server is off most of the time.  We just don’t use it very often and it doesn’t make sense to keep a dual-core PC running for no reason.
Manually update the tv schedule on my MythTV box. The [...]

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Popfile and Misspelled Words

A script to recategorize misspelled words in the popfile corpus.

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OSX and Personal Media Restrictions

Kettle meets pot and call each other names.

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Domestic Inflation is Killing Americans

Domestic inflation is alive and well.

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Go Paul! Volcker Takes the Battle to the Streets

Paul Volcker is calling it right again.
In ‘light touch’ capitalism being practiced today, banks  are accustomed to using proprietary operations inside the bank to generate the bulk of their profits.  Mr. Volcker is calling for an end to those practices in this article.
It should be obvious that banking and finance should play a supporting role [...]

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Sanity Check: Latest and Greatest Version

You have come to believe that more recent packages are critical to establishing/maintaining your geek-credentials.
It’s actually kind of a corner-case scenario where one really needs the latest and greatest of any package.
I know I’m really pissing into the wind on this one, but leave your desktop distro alone if at all possible.  How about using [...]

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Broken Links

Links in the stories are broken because of the transition from Serendipity to Wordpress.
Serendipity has very nice link protection features, but they don’t export/import well.
I’ll fix them as time permits.

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This is the End of Serendipity

Serendipity is an excellent blogging platform. I’m still moving to wordpress. Why? For professional reasons. There are so many wordpress installations out there that experiencing all of its warts and deep flaws becomes a professional advantage.
It’s the broken windows fallacy all over again.

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