Saturday, September 15, 2007


Who, Me?


Um, yeah, long time no see.


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Monday, August 14, 2006


Zhuaxia.com?


Can anyone tell me anything about zhuaxia.com? Any English-speaking technical contacts? It apparently involves the grasping of shrimp. ;) I apparently have half of China hotlinking my copy of the feed icon, and I am rather unamused. I’d rather talk to someone as a moderate step before I just change the image to goatse or tubgirl or something.


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Friday, April 23, 2004


Even iCal is Fast


It goes without saying that I’m happy with my new workstation. I went from a 450MHz PPC750 (G3) to a dual 1.8GHz PPC970 (G5) with Quartz hardware-acceleration. I really haven’t done anything particularly compute intensive, but the difference in my ordinary, day to day tasks is just striking. Things I would actively avoid doing (using my ISPs Flash-encrusted homepage, for example) on the G3 happen instantaneously. Apple Mail is fast enough for me to use without reservation, reindexing of large folders is instantaneous, etc.

I was happy to find that the bundled software includes some stuff I’ll actually use. Apple has apparently licensed OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and GraphicConverter, as well as iLife ‘04.

I’m still trying to build my working environment up, of course. I have to bring sure all my tools and scripts and everything else over, and I’ve got to figure out how to sync my Tungsten, etc., but it’s a joy when I don’t have to wait. At all.


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Monday, January 12, 2004


New Linklog!


Taking advantage of the newly released LinkLog software from Codepoetry, I’ve spun my mindless link propagation tendencies off into a separate area of this website. The freeke lincoln log (cough) will evolve as the underlying software matures beneath it, of course, but feel free to play around. If you wish to submit links, this bookmarklet will submit whatever page you happen to be viewing.


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Saturday, November 01, 2003


Whew!


Darwin samantha.freeke.org 7.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

Still fixing some stuff. I’ve got Perl modules to reinstall (sob).


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Friday, October 31, 2003


Down for OS Upgrade


My domain will we out of order starting Friday night and should be back up sometime Saturday. Don’t all cheer at once.


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Wednesday, July 02, 2003


An Experiment — OmniOutliner and Blosxom


  • Why?
    • Prompted by the experimental application of Radio Userland as an outline posting tool for Movable Type, I decided to see if it were possible to do something similar using OmniOutliner and Blosxom. I would think that an outliner would be really useful for the long, omnibus-type posts (like the Drive-Bys) that I do sometimes.
    • Outliners are, so I’ve been told, excellent tools for organizing your thoughts, assuming you have thoughts to organize.
  • How?
    • Create the entry in OmniOutliner
    • Export as HTML
    • Clean up any garbage <FONT> tags, etc., if necessary added by the export process in Hydra.
    • Publish.

Postmortem: Well, it was a bit more work than that. First, OmniOutliner creates a complete HTML document upon export, which means I have to get rid of extraneous <BODY> tags and stuff as well as a bunch of other <HEAD> type stuff. Nothing too difficult, but as it’s a manual process there’s the potential for error. The other, more serious issue is that it also “helpfully” entity-escaped every single HTML tag I included in my post. This seemed like the more insurmountable issue, until I remembered that, since I was using a Cocoa editor, I could take advantage of Unicode Checker’s “HTML Entities -> Unicode” service to reverse that damage. Cool. I’d call it a success.


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Sunday, June 15, 2003


Intermittent connectivity — fixed (I hope)


My apologies for the intermittent connectivity (web and mail) over the weekend. I’ve been away for a few days and, ond of course Murphy’s Law kicked in. I think everything’s sorted now.


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Friday, May 30, 2003


Important Security Note


If you’re running Shoutbox on your site, install the patch here. Since this vulnerability was posted to Bugtraq, at least half a dozen skr1pt k1dd33z have attacked my server.

Yeah, I saw you, needledick:

  • discovery.cs.hope.edu
  • p213.54.36.10.tisdip.tiscali.de
  • cmb5-198.dial-up.arnes.si
  • cpe-144-132-214-143.nsw.bigpond.net.au
  • 68-173-153-233.nyc.rr.com
  • ncroes02.telenet-ops.be
  • cfaw0105.macs.net
  • customer165-105.iplannetworks.net
  • 202.155.70.242

I’m settling for public shame this time, but next time I see one freaking packet from any of you, your ISP’s abuse department is getting a copy of my logs.


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Monday, May 12, 2003


The Tools That Make This Weblog Possible


I’ve arrived at a stable equilibrium as far as the tools that I use to prepare weblog entries and to work with the radio station. I want to mention them explicitly (for the search engines and my own historical purposes.)

  • Site editing/maintenance
  • Radio station content preparation
    • Emusic — affordable supply of new independent label content
    • Lame — encoding CDs to MP3
    • Studio365 — uploading music for FFG static stream
    • Studio365Live — live broadcast tool for Dulcet
    • iTunes — playlist planning, MP3 tagging and file management
    • id3x — MP3 tagging and file management

last edit Wed Jul 2 11:16:13 EDT 2003


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