Archive for May, 2006
State of the Union – UOSP
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the positive feedback from readers of the Utah Open Source Planet. I hoped that it would be a cool place for UT’s Open Source hackers to learn something more about each other and interact a bit. It seems that it has done just that. People have taken [...]
Thanks for protecting me!
I don’t even remember how I ended up stumbling upon this, but I thought the spin was funny.
On August 20th, Microsoft announced the filing of legal actions against a Orem-area company for the alleged distribution of counterfeit software. Microsoft is taking this action to protect consumers and resellers from the negative impact of software piracy.
Why [...]
My Dad’s First IM
My dad sat at my computer and sent this IM to my brother Jordan:
Hi, this is Gary. This is my first message that I have ever sent. It could very well be my last one also. Roger-out good buddy.
I was kinda happy and sad at the same time. The worlds we [...]
Top 50 ways to the Utah Open Source Planet
I thought y’all might like to know what people are searching for when they find the Utah Open Source Planet.
Here you go…
utah open source planet
utah perl mongers
open clue utah
preferred roaming list hack
centos 4.2 bootloader configuration
rpm download bond httpd-2.2.0-5.1.2
perl bot to play legend of the green dragon
baby blue gerolsteiner specialized bike
boot loader centos 4.2 configuration
2006.0 [...]
YaST, you fat pig!
Well, last night I finally installed Suse 10.1. It’s the same as ever for me – there are things I love and things I hate. Foremost in the “things I hate” is YaST. I wanted to update some software and found these options under the “Software” section in YaST:
10 options is way [...]
Only 3 days until I get to try SUSE Linux 10.1!
There is this new thing called “broadband” and together with this other new thing called “bittorrent” you never have to download things at <56k again!
I love 2006!
Myspace.com gets IM
I’m a little surprised that MySpace is getting it’s own IM service. My initial reaction was, “I hope it runs XMPP (or jabber) and not yet another protocol.” But after thinking about it for a while, I decided that some walled gardens are a good thing. Let’s hope the walls are 12 [...]
Sneak Peek at ZoolTone
I’ve been busy this weekend hacking together a little something I call ZoolTone.
What is it you ask?
It’s a Firefox extension (my first, but not last) that will allow you to “Click and Dial” phone numbers on a web page. It adds a pretty little icon after every phone number it finds. When you [...]