a wiki

ManagingWithTheWeb

2003-03-31 16:14:20 24.193.207.56 ian

Managing with the Web is - so far - still more of an art than a science. Much of it depends on human trust relationships and personal discipline that are not created and only insufficiently sustained by today's man-machine interfaces. Still, one thing is for sure: ManagingExpectations is a prerequesite of ManagingWithTheWeb. 
 
 While ManagingExpectations can be done well locally without the means of the Web, the Web (the universe of hyperlinked information) is truly an enabling agent for managing expectations well in a distributed, loosely coupled system. If combined with telephone conferences and face-to-face meetings, it can actually work. But all the technology doesn't help him who doesn't manage expectations. (On the contrary?)
 
 It is important to secure commitments from colleagues, e.g., for reviews
 of documents. It does not suffice simply to ask (especially by sending email to a group of people hoping one will say "yes"). Negotiate review schedules. One way to encourage review is to schedule a one-hour teleconference with someone and walk through your document.
 
 Other loose thoughts:
 Email archives and paper trail.
 Measuring what's cost-effective.
 Social protocols.
 Critical path.
 You can say no (but cultural issues about doing so).
 
 "wikipedeia":http://www.wikipedia.org/ is a remarkable achievement in scalable collaboration.
 "advogato":http://www.advogato.org/ too.
 
 more: "Managing with the Web":http://www.dietl.org/2002/mwtw

Managing with the Web is - so far - still more of an art than a science. Much of it depends on human trust relationships and personal discipline that are not created and only insufficiently sustained by today's man-machine interfaces. Still, one thing is for sure: ManagingExpectations is a prerequesite of ManagingWithTheWeb .

While ManagingExpectations can be done well locally without the means of the Web, the Web (the universe of hyperlinked information) is truly an enabling agent for managing expectations well in a distributed, loosely coupled system. If combined with telephone conferences and face-to-face meetings, it can actually work. But all the technology doesn't help him who doesn't manage expectations. (On the contrary?)

It is important to secure commitments from colleagues, e.g., for reviews of documents. It does not suffice simply to ask (especially by sending email to a group of people hoping one will say "yes"). Negotiate review schedules. One way to encourage review is to schedule a one-hour teleconference with someone and walk through your document.

Other loose thoughts: Email archives and paper trail. Measuring what's cost-effective. Social protocols. Critical path. You can say no (but cultural issues about doing so).

wikipedeia is a remarkable achievement in scalable collaboration. advogato too.

more: Managing with the Web ZWIKIMIDSECTION

OPKSNet

2005-06-09 08:49:01 64.126.89.30 connolly

formal description
 more or less up-to-date, which provides a nice
 diagram (using
 some RDF diagramming tools; also:
 in SVG, 
 in postscript).
 
 DirkMachine is my desktop and PbJam is my laptop. We
 have a mac in MaJoStudio. We enjoy WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns.
 
 
 AmdAntec is the machine I put together for the boys. It replaced
 a My Favorite PC 400mhz machine that we got for free
 via ETrade. Mary used it for a while.
 memory for my favorite pc: SDRAM, PC100. 128MB or 256MB. Machine currently has 96MB (64+32).
 
 shoal, my desktop machine
 used to route between my wireless LAN and my DSL connection.
 But it was a bit touchy. see @@problem reports to fork/fogo.
 
 
 
 From connolly Thu Jan 6 21:04:11 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:04:11 +0000
 Subject: uninterruptible power supply interrupted by ice storm
 Message-ID: <20050106210411+0000@dm93.org>
 
 According to KCPL's storm central, I'm one
 of about 10,000 customers that lost power. It came back on in seconds, which makes me wonder why
 my UPS didn't make up the difference. So I'm InTheMarket for a replacement.
 
 
 Norm says the battery on his went dead one time. When did I get mine? Ah... FractalAccounting records show Standby UPS SYS for 1999-07-18 for -109.99 at OfficeMax #291; in particular, it's an Internet Office 2005 from Tripp Lite.
 
 I didn't use the "I'm going down now!" signalling capability of the old UPC, but I'd like to.
 After reviewing the NUT compatibility list
 and some amazon product reviews, the
 APC Back-UPS ES for $42.99 at microcenter
 looks interesting.
 
 
 
 From connolly Sun Jan 9 05:57:46 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 05:57:46 +0000
 Subject: setting up a Belkin F6C500-UNV UPC
 Message-ID: <20050109055746+0000@dm93.org>
 
 UPACode 722868471661
 
 Bus 002 Device 005: ID 050d:0910 Belkin Components
 belkin-universal nut driver
 faq says port is /dev/usb/hiddev0
 
 Odd::
 
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost last message repeated 6 times
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1209)Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860032 (601)
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1203)Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860032 (601)
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost last message repeated 6 times
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1207)Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1204)d
 
 Dunno what that's all about. it seems to work::
 
 # /bin/upsc powerpal@localhost
 battery.charge: 100
 battery.chemistry: PbAc
 battery.runtime: 120
 battery.voltage: 12.1
 driver.name: hidups
 driver.parameter.port: /dev/usb/hiddev0
 driver.version: 2.0.1-pre4
 ups.mfr: Belkin
 ups.model: UPS
 ups.serial: Belkin UPS
 ups.status: OL
 
 There seems to be a standard for USB hid power devices.
]]>

My actual home office is an approximation of the PerfectOffice .

I keep a formal description more or less up-to-date, which provides a nice diagram (using some RDF diagramming tools ; also: in SVG , in postscript ).

DirkMachine is my desktop and PbJam is my laptop. We have a mac in MaJoStudio . We enjoy WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns .

AmdAntec is the machine I put together for the boys. It replaced a My Favorite PC 400mhz machine that we got for free via ETrade . Mary used it for a while. memory for my favorite pc : SDRAM, PC100. 128MB or 256MB. Machine currently has 96MB (64+32).

shoal, my desktop machine used to route between my wireless LAN and my DSL connection. But it was a bit touchy. see @@problem reports to fork/fogo.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

uninterruptible power supply interrupted by ice storm --connolly, Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:04:11 +0000 reply

According to KCPL's storm central , I'm one of about 10,000 customers that lost power. It came back on in seconds, which makes me wonder why my UPS didn't make up the difference. So I'm InTheMarket for a replacement.

Norm says the battery on his went dead one time. When did I get mine? Ah... FractalAccounting records show Standby UPS SYS for 1999-07-18 for -109.99 at OfficeMax #291; in particular, it's an Internet Office 2005 from Tripp Lite .

I didn't use the "I'm going down now!" signalling capability of the old UPC, but I'd like to. After reviewing the NUT compatibility list and some amazon product reviews, the APC Back-UPS ES for $42.99 at microcenter looks interesting.

setting up a Belkin F6C500-UNV UPC --connolly, Sun, 09 Jan 2005 05:57:46 +0000 reply

UPACode 722868471661

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 050d:0910 Belkin Components belkin-universal nut driver faq says port is /dev/usb/hiddev0

Odd:

 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost last message repeated 6 times
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1209)Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860032 (601)
 Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1203)Jan 8 23:54:12 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860032 (601)
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost last message repeated 6 times
 Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1207)Jan 8 23:54:14 localhost hidups[21359]: Ignoring x86 page event 0x860030 (1204)d

Dunno what that's all about. it seems to work:

 # /bin/upsc powerpal@localhost
 battery.charge: 100
 battery.chemistry: PbAc
 battery.runtime: 120
 battery.voltage: 12.1
 driver.name: hidups
 driver.parameter.port: /dev/usb/hiddev0
 driver.version: 2.0.1-pre4
 ups.mfr: Belkin
 ups.model: UPS
 ups.serial: Belkin UPS
 ups.status: OL

There seems to be a standard for USB hid power devices .

HyperSchool

2004-10-21 17:51:27 64.126.89.30 connolly


 
 It includes about 80,000 lines of WikiPedia:HyperTalk code, plus some
 C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing
 before the user gets old.
 
 I developed it on UTMac, in the summer of 1989, with a couple friends.
 Dan Schmiedeler did the nice-looking (for the time) graphics, and Mark
 Schreiner helped in ways that I can't remember just now. I have a
 hardcopy development notebook; I'll have to check that.
 
 
 After we added mmac to MaJoStudio I tried it in Classic mode and it still worked.
 **21Oct2004** Let's try it on PbJam... yup... works there too.
 
 The files are also on DirkMachine:
 
  connolly@dirk:~$ ls -l 1993mac-cd/Originals\,\ Records\,\ System/Originals/Hyper\ School/
 total 288
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 58016 Jul 17 1989 Attendance
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Backups
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 C routines
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Data Files
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Documentation
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 147456 Dec 21 1989 HyperSchool
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 49152 Sep 9 1989 HyperSchool Help
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Layouts
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Tiny High
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Washington
 
 
 
 WikiPedia rocks.
]]>

HyperSchool is a WikiPedia:HyperCard application for schools to do scheduling, attendance, and grades.

HyperSchool screen shot

It includes about 80,000 lines of WikiPedia:HyperTalk code, plus some C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing before the user gets old.

I developed it on UTMac , in the summer of 1989, with a couple friends. Dan Schmiedeler did the nice-looking (for the time) graphics, and Mark Schreiner helped in ways that I can't remember just now. I have a hardcopy development notebook; I'll have to check that.

After we added mmac to MaJoStudio I tried it in Classic mode and it still worked. 21Oct2004 Let's try it on PbJam ... yup... works there too.

The files are also on DirkMachine :

 connolly@dirk:~$ ls -l 1993mac-cd/Originals\,\ Records\,\ System/Originals/Hyper\ School/
 total 288
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 58016 Jul 17 1989 Attendance
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Backups
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 C routines
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Data Files
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Documentation
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 147456 Dec 21 1989 HyperSchool
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 connolly www 49152 Sep 9 1989 HyperSchool Help
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Layouts
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Tiny High
 drwxr-xr-x 3 connolly www 4096 Dec 7 1998 Washington

WikiPedia rocks.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

GoodbyDamon

2004-05-07 15:38:43 64.126.93.230 connolly

Good bye my friend it's hard to die, /
when all the birds are singing in the sky /
now that the spring is in the air /
pretty girls are ev'ry where, /
think of me and I'll be there.
seasons in the sun

Damon was about six weeks old when she came to live with Mary, who named her after a legendary loyal friend:

According to Greek legend, Damon and Pythias were friends who lived on Syracuse in the 4th century BC. When Pythias was sentenced to death, he was allowed to temporarily go free on the condition that Damon take his place in prison. Pythias returned just before Damon was to be executed in his place, and the king was so impressed with their loyalty to one another that he pardoned Pythias.
behind the name

That was the spring of 1990; in December that year, Mary and Damon met Dan.

Damon was a lab/chow mix.

As a lab, she loved to fetch. We used to throw sticks
out into the lake in Austin for her to fetch -- the bigger
the better, as far as she was concerned. She once picked
up a log only a little smaller than herself and made it
clear that she wanted to fetch it. She was a wonderful
frisbee dog; I have never seen another dog judge a
frisbee in the wind as well as Damon.

She loved to play in the snow, too. She's the black one:

As a chow, she was a faithful guardian. She helped Mary
feel secure when Dan travelled. Once, when we were living
in an apartment in Arlington, MA, a repair man came to
fix the handle on the stove. Mary was pregnant with
Justin at the time. Damon made it clear to the repair
man that he was not to mess with Mary: she sat between
Mary and the repair man the entire time.

That winter was difficult for her. We had no yard, and
she was inside a lot. When winter turned to spring, I
broke out the frisbee perhaps a bit too soon. She twisted
her knee. That was the beginning of her decline.

In the past few years, her favorite game of fetch has become
more and more difficult for her. She gets frustrated
as Bo streaks after the ball while she can barely trot.
She cannot lift herself into the car. Watching her go
up and down stairs is agonizing.
She has lumps on her chest; a big one grew rather
suddenly on one of her feet.
Her bark has gone hoarse, and her breathing is labored.

Two weeks ago, after talking about putting her down
"one of these days" for several months, we started to
talk seriously about it. We decided to watch her closely
for a week to judge her quality of life. During that week,
I threw a ball for her to fetch and she just didn't get up.
She was constantly panting with that labored breath. The signs
were clear, and Mary and I agreed I should arrange to have her
put down.

I found it somewhat difficult to act. Like many burdensome
tasks, the job of making the appointment didn't get done until
Mary and I were both there to do it.

This morning, I took Damon to Animal Haven alone, and sat
with her as she was put down. Animal Haven offered to dispose
of the body, but Mary and I decided it's best for the boys
that the see her body buried. Digging the grave was somewhat
cathartic; it gave a channel for some of the grief. Writing
this has a similar effect.

But lest I leave you heavy of heart, recall that today
is a glorious day, and Damon had a good long run.

Goodbye, Damon.
]]>

5May2004 : It's a glorious spring day here in the Kansas City area, but it's a diffcult one. We put Damon, our dog of 14 years, down today.

These lyrics come to mind:

Good bye my friend it's hard to die, / when all the birds are singing in the sky / now that the spring is in the air / pretty girls are ev'ry where, / think of me and I'll be there.
seasons in the sun

Damon was about six weeks old when she came to live with Mary, who named her after a legendary loyal friend:

According to Greek legend, Damon and Pythias were friends who lived on Syracuse in the 4th century BC. When Pythias was sentenced to death, he was allowed to temporarily go free on the condition that Damon take his place in prison. Pythias returned just before Damon was to be executed in his place, and the king was so impressed with their loyalty to one another that he pardoned Pythias.
behind the name

That was the spring of 1990; in December that year, Mary and Damon met Dan.

Damon was a lab/chow mix.

As a lab, she loved to fetch. We used to throw sticks out into the lake in Austin for her to fetch -- the bigger the better, as far as she was concerned. She once picked up a log only a little smaller than herself and made it clear that she wanted to fetch it. She was a wonderful frisbee dog; I have never seen another dog judge a frisbee in the wind as well as Damon.

She loved to play in the snow, too. She's the black one:

As a chow, she was a faithful guardian. She helped Mary feel secure when Dan travelled. Once, when we were living in an apartment in Arlington, MA, a repair man came to fix the handle on the stove. Mary was pregnant with Justin at the time. Damon made it clear to the repair man that he was not to mess with Mary: she sat between Mary and the repair man the entire time.

That winter was difficult for her. We had no yard, and she was inside a lot. When winter turned to spring, I broke out the frisbee perhaps a bit too soon. She twisted her knee. That was the beginning of her decline.

In the past few years, her favorite game of fetch has become more and more difficult for her. She gets frustrated as Bo streaks after the ball while she can barely trot. She cannot lift herself into the car. Watching her go up and down stairs is agonizing. She has lumps on her chest; a big one grew rather suddenly on one of her feet. Her bark has gone hoarse, and her breathing is labored.

Two weeks ago, after talking about putting her down "one of these days" for several months, we started to talk seriously about it. We decided to watch her closely for a week to judge her quality of life. During that week, I threw a ball for her to fetch and she just didn't get up. She was constantly panting with that labored breath. The signs were clear, and Mary and I agreed I should arrange to have her put down.

I found it somewhat difficult to act. Like many burdensome tasks, the job of making the appointment didn't get done until Mary and I were both there to do it.

This morning, I took Damon to Animal Haven alone, and sat with her as she was put down. Animal Haven offered to dispose of the body, but Mary and I decided it's best for the boys that the see her body buried. Digging the grave was somewhat cathartic; it gave a channel for some of the grief. Writing this has a similar effect.

But lest I leave you heavy of heart, recall that today is a glorious day, and Damon had a good long run.

Goodbye, Damon.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

MarysFirstCdMix

2002-11-16 13:45:45 208.190.203.207

In Dec 2001, I decided my old plextor SCSI 2x CDR drive (that only ever worked
at 1x) needed replacing, so I got one of these 20x $99 IDE deelies.
(hmm... more details under DebianLinuxJustWorks ... need to refactor).

I told MaryC that this would make it practical to burn
custom CDs, so she went thru her collection and
came up with a list...

The list (transcribed 5 Jan 2002 from a piece of paper
Mary wrote it on...):

1. Crowded House - Not the Girl You Think You Are (Very Best of C. H.)

I think I'll stop there and see if I can get
DebianPackage:gtoaster to do the rest for me...
(grumble... no link to
"gnome toaster home":http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/)

started it up... dialog warns me to check settings...
I see I gotta tell it about my CD drives...

"Use SCSI interface for DAE"??? Ah... Digital
Audio Extraction.

ok... "online docs":http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/documentation/gnometoaster_users_guide.html#SECTION00034000000000000000
give me the relevant clues about the UI..
wow... very nice diagnostic when it failed
to execute the mp3-encoder... complete
with See http://gnometoaster.rulez.org
to find more informations about how you can protest against
certain legal practices that may eventually make life a lot more
difficult for us with intellectual property becoming more and more
important an issue."

OK, I don't really want to mp3 encode these things anyway...
I want to use ogg vorbis...

Er... I was dropping onto the wrong window.

I ripped several trackes, then realized I was going
to run out of /tmp space. Sigh... all that time down
the drain.

Hmm... having trouble getting gtoaster to do cddb lookups.
re-building from source (@@link?
3756a86ebf5b49948902ba1bf10809ad /home/connolly/DIST/gtoaster1.0Beta3.tgz)
fixed it. Debian satisfied all the build dependencies
in about 1 minute. DebianLinuxJustWorks!

see also: MusicBrainz RDF stuff... AaronSw...

29Jan2002: working on MarysSecondVideo

In Dec 2001, I decided my old plextor SCSI 2x CDR drive (that only ever worked at 1x) needed replacing, so I got one of these 20x $99 IDE deelies. (hmm... more details under DebianLinuxJustWorks ... need to refactor).

I told MaryC that this would make it practical to burn custom CDs , so she went thru her collection and came up with a list...

The list (transcribed 5 Jan 2002 from a piece of paper Mary wrote it on...):

Crowded House - Not the Girl You Think You Are (Very Best of C. H.)

I think I'll stop there and see if I can get DebianPackage:gtoaster to do the rest for me... (grumble... no link to gnome toaster home )

started it up... dialog warns me to check settings... I see I gotta tell it about my CD drives...

"Use SCSI interface for DAE"??? Ah... Digital Audio Extraction.

ok... online docs give me the relevant clues about the UI.. wow... very nice diagnostic when it failed to execute the mp3-encoder... complete with See http://gnometoaster.rulez.org to find more informations about how you can protest against certain legal practices that may eventually make life a lot more difficult for us with intellectual property becoming more and more important an issue."

OK, I don't really want to mp3 encode these things anyway... I want to use ogg vorbis...

Er... I was dropping onto the wrong window.

I ripped several trackes, then realized I was going to run out of /tmp space. Sigh... all that time down the drain.

Hmm... having trouble getting gtoaster to do cddb lookups. re-building from source (@@link? 3756a86ebf5b49948902ba1bf10809ad /home/connolly/DIST/gtoaster1.0Beta3.tgz) fixed it. Debian satisfied all the build dependencies in about 1 minute. DebianLinuxJustWorks !

see also: MusicBrainz RDF stuff... AaronSw ...

29Jan2002: working on MarysSecondVideo

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

ScriptureNotes

2005-06-09 08:55:34 64.126.89.30 connolly


 
 The notes that follow are, in part, an invitation to my readers to keep
 me accountable; while I keep most of my scripture notes private,
 I run into something worth sharing at least every few months, and
 if it has been more than that long since I had something to say here,
 please do give me a nudge.
 
 After a particularly motivating message by pastor Trey in Austin, I started
 working thru a "Seasons of Reflection" daily bible. In the 2001
 ChristmasCardRitual I was thinking about a couple that we met in Austin
 whose ministry we still support and reading up on the Navigators,
 and I found the The Discipleship Journal
 bible reading plan. I switched to that plan at the new year,
 since I could use it with whatever bible is handy (my bookmark from the daily bible was on day 108, p. 331).
 In the third month, I couldn't find motivation to trudge thru the laws
 and started skipping the old testament column.
 Then, at PromiseKeepersStLouis, I learned to read a different way.
 By December 2002 I was getting confused about what I'd read and what I hadn't,
 so I started sorting my notes by BibleBook rather than chronologically...
 
 
 BibleBook:Genesis
 
 "djbrp month 1":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp1, Jan 
 2001.
 
 
 BibleBook:Exodus
 
 "month 2":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp2 , Jun 2002
 
 BibleBook:Leviticus
 
 "month 2":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp2 , Jun 2002
 
 BibleBook:Job
 
 Wow... "Where were you?"
 
 BibleBook:Isaiah
 
 22Sep2002: Bruce read from Isaiah 55, which reminded
 me of "Seek the 
 Lord":http://www.ocp.org/en/songsearch/viewsong.php?musicID=7001
 
 BibleBook:Psalms
 
 "djbrp month 1":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp1, Jan 
 2001,
 Month 2, Jun 2002.
 
 BibleVerse:Psalm+23 : justin committed the entire verse to memory 
 **Fall2003**. "Heart Speaks to 
 Heart":http://www.sanctuaryofhope.org/soh/nl/2002_nl/sep_02assoc.htm 
 retreat
 at sanctuary of hope **24Nov2002**. played *Like a Shepherd*.
 
 BibleVerse:Psalm+34 was a great comfort to Mary and me Feb 2004 as Mary prepared for thyroid surgery.
 
 
 BibleVerse:Ps+49 : wow!
 
 "Be still and know that I am God" -- Ps 46:10
 
 From "month 3":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp3 : ...
 
 "Only in God..." ps 62.
 
 (read thru around psalm 75)
 
 BibleBook:Jonah
 
 Pastor Bruce's series Feb 2003
 
 BibleBook:Malachi
 
 "Test me in this" -- BibleVerse:MAL+3:10 .
 Moving to KC, 1999/2000.
 
 BibleBook:Matthew
 
 "djbrp month 1":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp1, Jan 
 2001.
 Month 2, Jun 2002.
 
 "Seek first his kingdom" -- Matthew 6:33
 
 Mt 24:32-35 - this generation? hmm...
 
 BibleVerse:Matt+28 Great Commission...
 "First Principles":http://www.icoc.org/StudyTools/Studies/first_principles.htm 
 in Arlington at JohnI's house in '94/95
 
 
 BibleBook:Mark
 
 "month 4":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp4
 
 BibleBook:Luke
 
 read this after PromiseKeepersStLouis, I think.
 
 BibleBook:John
 
 read ~ Nov 2002. Wow... where Luke is very factual,
 John gives more background/motivation. I think there
 are large parts of John I had never seen before.
 (*grumble about how the rigid style of the Catholic church only
 exposes people to selected parts of the bible.*)
 
 
 BibleBook:Acts
 
 "djbrp month 1":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp1, Jan 
 2001,
 Month 2, Jun 2002.
 
 BibleBook:Acts+2: Nov 2003 ChristmasCardRitual
 
 
 BibleBook:Romans
 
 month 3
 
 BibleBook:1COR
 
 month 4, GF men's group.
 
 BibleBook:Hebrews
 
 read Jan2003. Faith. Pastoral search...
 
 BibleBook:Revelation
 
 read Feb2003, as Cliff Coss preached on it at GF.
 
 
 
 Chronological notes
 
 Letters with Mark... Austin...
 
 
 NWF in Austin, GF in KC.
 
 
 "Life@Work":http://lifeatwork.com/ -- recommended
 by David Rofkahr at GF on 30Dec2001. Highly
 relevant to wondering how my calling to share my faith 
 should mesh with my passion for sharing information thru the Web
 (cf FriendOfDanConnolly; see also ShareLifeThruArt).
 
 
 
 Well, I got off track for a while, but I'm tracking
 "month 2":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp2
 during Jun 2002.
 
 
 Starting "month 4":http://www.navpress.com/dj_brp.asp?opt=brp4 in Aug 2002.
 
 
 
 **9Feb**: invitation to "Marriage and Family Covenant 
 Day":http://www.marriagesavers.org/travel_schedule.htm 15Aug.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 **Mar 2003**: resumed reading old testament (BibleBook:Joshua, 
 BibleBook:Judges).
 
 
 **Jun 2003**: reading BibleBook:1Samuel+24
 
 hmm.. for the car? "bible in mp3":http://www.audiotreasure.com/
 
 sadness...  I don't want prayer in school or In God We Trust on the currency, either.
 
 -- ndw, 7Mar2004
 
 
 **9Nov2004**: refactoring leaves DiscoveringMinistry, InteractiveTutorial dangling
 
]]>

Scripture works best as part of a daily connection between a person and God, a connection that spills over into relationships with other people. Everybody has (more or less) the same bible; each person's experience of it is unique, but the common text, TheOriginalHypertext , gives us a frame of reference with with to talk to each other about it, sing about it, etc.

My first meaningful experience of scripture was through music, ala "he who sings prays twice", at St. Anne's Church where my parents brought me. ThreeChordsAndTheTruth continues to be a pattern in my life, as well as ShareLifeThruArt .

(and just for me: personal notes )

The notes that follow are, in part, an invitation to my readers to keep me accountable; while I keep most of my scripture notes private, I run into something worth sharing at least every few months, and if it has been more than that long since I had something to say here, please do give me a nudge.

After a particularly motivating message by pastor Trey in Austin, I started working thru a "Seasons of Reflection" daily bible. In the 2001 ChristmasCardRitual I was thinking about a couple that we met in Austin whose ministry we still support and reading up on the Navigators, and I found the The Discipleship Journal bible reading plan . I switched to that plan at the new year, since I could use it with whatever bible is handy (my bookmark from the daily bible was on day 108, p. 331). In the third month, I couldn't find motivation to trudge thru the laws and started skipping the old testament column. Then, at PromiseKeepersStLouis , I learned to read a different way. By December 2002 I was getting confused about what I'd read and what I hadn't, so I started sorting my notes by BibleBook rather than chronologically...

BibleBook:Genesis

djbrp month 1 , Jan 2001.

BibleBook:Exodus

month 2 , Jun 2002

BibleBook:Leviticus

month 2 , Jun 2002

BibleBook:Job

Wow... "Where were you?"

BibleBook:Isaiah

22Sep2002: Bruce read from Isaiah 55, which reminded me of Seek the Lord

BibleBook:Psalms

djbrp month 1 , Jan 2001, Month 2, Jun 2002.

BibleVerse:Psalm+23 : justin committed the entire verse to memory Fall2003 . Heart Speaks to Heart retreat at sanctuary of hope 24Nov2002 . played Like a Shepherd .

BibleVerse:Psalm+34 was a great comfort to Mary and me Feb 2004 as Mary prepared for thyroid surgery.

BibleVerse:Ps+49 : wow!

"Be still and know that I am God": Ps 46:10

From month 3 : ...

"Only in God..." ps 62.

(read thru around psalm 75)

BibleBook:Jonah

Pastor Bruce's series Feb 2003

BibleBook:Malachi

"Test me in this": BibleVerse:MAL+3:10 . Moving to KC, 1999/2000.

BibleBook:Matthew

djbrp month 1 , Jan 2001. Month 2, Jun 2002.

"Seek first his kingdom": Matthew 6:33

Mt 24:32-35 - this generation? hmm...

BibleVerse:Matt+28 Great Commission... First Principles in Arlington at JohnI 's house in '94/95

BibleBook:Mark

month 4

BibleBook:Luke

read this after PromiseKeepersStLouis , I think.

BibleBook:John

read ~ Nov 2002. Wow... where Luke is very factual, John gives more background/motivation. I think there are large parts of John I had never seen before. ( grumble about how the rigid style of the Catholic church only exposes people to selected parts of the bible. )

BibleBook:Acts

djbrp month 1 , Jan 2001, Month 2, Jun 2002.

BibleBook:Acts+2: Nov 2003 ChristmasCardRitual

BibleBook:Romans

month 3

BibleBook:1COR

month 4, GF men's group.

BibleBook:Hebrews

read Jan2003. Faith. Pastoral search...

BibleBook:Revelation

read Feb2003, as Cliff Coss preached on it at GF.

Chronological notes

Letters with Mark... Austin...

NWF in Austin, GF in KC.

Life@Work: recommended by David Rofkahr at GF on 30Dec2001. Highly relevant to wondering how my calling to share my faith should mesh with my passion for sharing information thru the Web (cf FriendOfDanConnolly ; see also ShareLifeThruArt ).

Well, I got off track for a while, but I'm tracking month 2 during Jun 2002.

Starting month 4 in Aug 2002.

9Feb : invitation to Marriage and Family Covenant Day 15Aug.

Mar 2003 : resumed reading old testament ( BibleBook:Joshua, BibleBook:Judges ).

Jun 2003 : reading BibleBook:1Samuel+24

hmm.. for the car? bible in mp3

sadness... I don't want prayer in school or In God We Trust on the currency, either. -- ndw, 7Mar2004

9Nov2004 : refactoring leaves DiscoveringMinistry , InteractiveTutorial dangling

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

MarysSecondVideo

2002-10-26 22:26:09 64.126.70.13 connolly

Mary's first video project was the MushcakeVideo. That's a completely separate
 gig. As is the EighthGradeVideo.
 
 Tonight (29Jan2002) I'm trying to figure out how to reproduce the
 music, but not the voices, from *Mediate* by INXS.
 
 So far, I've got "rosegarden":http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
 (DebianPackage:rosegarden) to produce a very simple 4-measure piano solo, which
 I can play with DebianPackage:timidity and DebianPackage:timidity-patches.
 
 I'm trying to figure out percussion now.
 
 Hmm... grab this "ROCKN4":http://www.freestyle101.com/midi/files/ROCKN4.MID midi
 drum thingy and look at it in the rosegarden sequencer's event view...
 
 program change: 9 1. seems to use channel 9 for drums...
 aha! fidgeting with the rosegarden staff menu until
 I get "percussion set 1" and setting the percussion channel
 to 9 works! I'm rollin now...
 
 Keep this handy: "midi drum map":http://www.freestyle101.com/midi/drum_map.htm
 
 Hmm... hi-hat closed, 42/F#3 seems to be out of rosegarden's range.
 
 Hm... there's a "noteedit entry":http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/noteedit/
 in this "shareware" index. ah... good: DebianPackage:noteedit .
 
 
 wow... "Musical notation codes: SMDL, NIFF, DARMS, GUIDO, abc, MusiXML":http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/notationformats_e.html#NIFF
 
 Ah... here we are: bit-tweezers for midi: "XMidi":http://www.palserv.com/XMidi/ .

Mary's first video project was the MushcakeVideo . That's a completely separate gig. As is the EighthGradeVideo .

Tonight (29Jan2002) I'm trying to figure out how to reproduce the music, but not the voices, from Mediate by INXS.

So far, I've got rosegarden ( DebianPackage:rosegarden ) to produce a very simple 4-measure piano solo, which I can play with DebianPackage:timidity and DebianPackage:timidity-patches.

I'm trying to figure out percussion now.

Hmm... grab this ROCKN4 midi drum thingy and look at it in the rosegarden sequencer's event view...

program change: 9 1. seems to use channel 9 for drums... aha! fidgeting with the rosegarden staff menu until I get "percussion set 1" and setting the percussion channel to 9 works! I'm rollin now...

Keep this handy: midi drum map

Hmm... hi-hat closed, 42/F#3 seems to be out of rosegarden's range.

Hm... there's a noteedit entry in this "shareware" index. ah... good: DebianPackage:noteedit .

wow... Musical notation codes: SMDL, NIFF, DARMS, GUIDO, abc, MusiXML

Ah... here we are: bit-tweezers for midi: XMidi .

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

PaperlessOffice

2004-01-03 07:52:03 64.126.64.19 connolly

In OPKSNet, PescoPrinter replaced JobiePrinter. It was OK, but sufficiently slow
and unreliable that I often considered printing something and
decide not to bother. **Nov2003** at a staff meeting in Japan,
the value of printing specs to read in a different venue
was emphasized; I asked what a reasonable price for a good
printer was, and I was told middle-of-the-road black and white laser
printers go for about $400.

Hmm... HP laserjet 1012 for under $200 at amazon; is
it linux-printing happy? no.
1300 is linux-printing-happy.

Nov 2001: My Umax astra is acting dead. Really dead, like: no signs of
life whatsoever. It seemed to work fine for a year or so,
and then, suddenly, nothing. Odd.

I'd like to get a USB scanner that works with linux.
Preferably one with an attachment for scanning photo negatives.

3Mar2002: looking for a USB scanner for another one of marys' projects.
Epson 636 looks good: "$76 at amazon":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J46Y/qid=1015198017/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/103-9158711-5629453
"linux support":http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html looks good.

Epson 636U . $45 refurb from epson. Ugh... epson store uses session id's, so I can't make a link.

It took just a few days to ship. scan serial number:
Type: C39
Code: BDGX107766

"LHD Product - Epson Perfection 636U USB scanner":http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?2034

Now (Sep 2002) I'm InTheMarket for a Transparency Adapter - B813172. Ugh... seems to cost more
than the scanner itself; around $90.

Nov 2001: Best Buy is selling a lexmark Z13 for $20 after rebate.
Hm... I don't see the Z13 in the linux printer database,
but the Z12 is rated "paperweight":http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=486066 .

see "Suggested Printers for Free Software Users":http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html

I discovered pdq and "LinuxPrinting.org":http://www.linuxprinting.org/
in Oct 2000: "A samba interface for PDQ, tested with HP OfficeJet":http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/hp-list/2000q4/000001.html

see also: "quick-n-dirty HTTP-based remote printing":http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/3B775FDB.DA121DDE@w3.org , 13 Aug 2001 to FOGO. ToDo: release updated version with form interface.

]]>

Hmm... connecting to the paper world is more than just photography... PaperPort seems like a good name for the concept, but it's taken/trademarked. Hmm... LegacyPaperConnection ?

Paper is better than one digital copy but not as good as two.

One digital copy can get deleted. The machine it's on can get hosed. The disk can go bad. It can crash while you're editing.

Two digital copies (e.g. what you get after you email something) mitigates all those risks pretty well. And of course, digital copies can be searched, edited, forwarded, excerpted, etc.

But if I'm on the phone and I've just learned some critical information, I don't type it into my computer; I use a pencil. Then, after I hang up and I know I have a battery-proof copy, I transcribe it.

hmm... for local coordination, paper is hard to beat. But how about combining it with a webcam so you can see what's on it remotely...

PPR: IsAnythingBetterThanPaper ?

LotsOfCopiesKeepsStuffSafe

ConfidentialityVersusAvailability

In OPKSNet , PescoPrinter replaced JobiePrinter . It was OK, but sufficiently slow and unreliable that I often considered printing something and decide not to bother. Nov2003 at a staff meeting in Japan, the value of printing specs to read in a different venue was emphasized; I asked what a reasonable price for a good printer was, and I was told middle-of-the-road black and white laser printers go for about $400.

Hmm... HP laserjet 1012 for under $200 at amazon; is it linux-printing happy ? no. 1300 is linux-printing-happy .

Nov 2001: My Umax astra is acting dead. Really dead, like: no signs of life whatsoever. It seemed to work fine for a year or so, and then, suddenly, nothing. Odd.

I'd like to get a USB scanner that works with linux. Preferably one with an attachment for scanning photo negatives.

3Mar2002: looking for a USB scanner for another one of marys' projects. Epson 636 looks good: $76 at amazon linux support looks good.

Epson 636U . $45 refurb from epson. Ugh... epson store uses session id's, so I can't make a link.

It took just a few days to ship. scan serial number: Type: C39 Code: BDGX107766

LHD Product - Epson Perfection 636U USB scanner

Now (Sep 2002) I'm InTheMarket for a Transparency Adapter - B813172. Ugh... seems to cost more than the scanner itself; around $90.

Nov 2001: Best Buy is selling a lexmark Z13 for $20 after rebate. Hm... I don't see the Z13 in the linux printer database, but the Z12 is rated paperweight .

I discovered pdq and LinuxPrinting.org in Oct 2000: A samba interface for PDQ, tested with HP OfficeJet

see also: quick-n-dirty HTTP-based remote printing , 13 Aug 2001 to FOGO. ToDo : release updated version with form interface.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

HelpPage

2004-07-23 04:12:16 64.126.89.30 connolly

What is this ?
 
 It's called a wiki web; it's a kind of collaborative website, where
 pages can be changed on the spot and simple conventions are
 followed to make formatting and linking easy. 
 Every page in the wiki has a name, usually two or more
 capitalized words run together. These WikiName(s) are converted to
 hyperlinks automatically.
 
 Each wiki web has its own particular subject orientation and
 policies. For the full background on wiki usage and etiquette, I
 recommend a visit to the WikiWikiWeb. The rest of this
 page covers the basics for participating in this and many
 other wikis.
 
 How to navigate
 
 Click the logo above to jump to the wiki's front page. 
 
 Click the page title to see which pages link to this one (*backlinks*).
 
 Visit RecentChanges to see all pages listed by modification date.
 
 To quickly jump to a known page, type the first few letters of it's 
 name in the JumpSearch field which usually appears at the top or bottom
 of the page. If no match is found, a full-text search will be done 
 instead; you can force this by prepending ! to your search term.
 Leave the field blank to get a quick index of all pages.
 
 How to edit
 
 To change a page's content, click the "Edit this
 page" link below, make your changes and click the "Change.." button.
 Text will be formatted for you automatically according to the
 TextFormattingRules. To begin with, just remember to separate your
 paragraphs with a blank line and avoid indentation.
 
 
 If some good text gets lost by mistake, you might find it by backing
 up in your browser. Otherwise, the site admin can very likely help you
 undo the changes or restore an older version of the page.
 
 How to link and create new pages
 
 To link to another wiki page, just write it's WikiName.
 If the page does not yet exist, a ? will be displayed; click this
 when you are ready to create it. This is how pages are
 added to the site.
 
 To link elsewhere, just type the url.
 RemoteWikiLinks are an alternate convenient notation for
 linking to pages on other sites.
 
 For more help..
 
 visit ZWiki's home site. Additional features are
 described there at ZWiki:AdvancedEditOptions.

What is this ?

It's called a wiki web; it's a kind of collaborative website, where pages can be changed on the spot and simple conventions are followed to make formatting and linking easy. Every page in the wiki has a name, usually two or more capitalized words run together. These WikiName (s) are converted to hyperlinks automatically.

Each wiki web has its own particular subject orientation and policies. For the full background on wiki usage and etiquette, I recommend a visit to the WikiWikiWeb . The rest of this page covers the basics for participating in this and many other wikis.

How to navigate

Click the logo above to jump to the wiki's front page.

Click the page title to see which pages link to this one ( backlinks ).

Visit RecentChanges to see all pages listed by modification date.

To quickly jump to a known page, type the first few letters of it's name in the JumpSearch field which usually appears at the top or bottom of the page. If no match is found, a full-text search will be done instead; you can force this by prepending ! to your search term. Leave the field blank to get a quick index of all pages.

How to edit

To change a page's content, click the "Edit this page" link below, make your changes and click the "Change.." button. Text will be formatted for you automatically according to the TextFormattingRules . To begin with, just remember to separate your paragraphs with a blank line and avoid indentation.

If some good text gets lost by mistake, you might find it by backing up in your browser. Otherwise, the site admin can very likely help you undo the changes or restore an older version of the page.

How to link and create new pages

To link to another wiki page, just write it's WikiName . If the page does not yet exist, a ? will be displayed; click this when you are ready to create it. This is how pages are added to the site.

To link elsewhere, just type the url. RemoteWikiLinks are an alternate convenient notation for linking to pages on other sites.

For more help..

visit ZWiki 's home site. Additional features are described there at ZWiki:AdvancedEditOptions.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

WinFourLinOnDebian

2004-07-07 16:31:34 64.126.89.30 connolly

unnoficial support.

**2004/06/19**: ran into authentication trouble reconciling my discover account... figured it was perhaps time to stop ignoring the "critical updates" dialogs. googled around until I found directions for cleaning up windows update.
I think the Root Certificates Update did the trick.
All is well now.

**1Feb2004**: re-installed on new DirkMachine (ssh host key fingerprint 9c:52:14:e1:94:4f:b6:a3:d6:46:79:de:5b:59:06:0f). a little fidgety, but not bad, considering. see also details in email to self.

**2 Dec 2003**: noticed Win4Lin 5.1 support for Linux kernel 2.6; updated. Hmm... now where's the kernel patch? ah... clues

**25 Aug 2003**: ouch! following a 16Aug upgrade of DebianPackage:libc6, I get
$ win
/bin/win: line 231: 2934 Segmentation fault winconfig $USE_CONFIG list version >/dev/null 2>&1
/opt/win4lin/bin/win_probe: line 38: 2982 Segmentation fault $STATICMERGE/publicbin/dosexec ++VLW $CONFIG 2>/dev/null

I see from DebianBug:205328 that I'm not the only one. I guess I'll have to learn
this chroot magic.

Nope... Netraverse sent a 5.0.5 release announcement on 19 August. Wow!

**30 Jun 2003** upgrading to version 5.

As another laudable touch, NeTraverse has standardized on the same kernel module for Win4Lin 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x.

Open for Business - Win4Lin 5: A Real Win for Linux Users
By Timothy R. Butler
Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business
June 18, 2003, 16:35:54 EDT
via Win4Lin 5.0 Reviewed
slashdot 19Jun.

makde a CD backup of /usr/local/win using DebianPackage:xcdroast, with the rockridge backup option
rather than rockridge anonymous.

oops... ordered the $60 special; meant to order the $30 upgrade.
Called customer support... moderate hold time... they agreed to credit the
difference. cool.

Wow... that was easy. There were a few misleading messages during the install that
suggested it didn't detect my previous installation, but I just pressed on and
followed my nose and it worked just fine.

Cool! cut and paste from X! you just need to use shift-F12 to get the option visible; see win4lin control window docs.

**10 Jan 2002**
re-installing win4lin... looking to use it with kernel 2.4.17...
starting at "netraverse":http://www.netraverse.com/

Here's a "success report":https://email.netraverse.com/lists/win4lin-users/Message/606.html
for win4lin with kernel 2.4.16.
grabbed Kernel-Win4Lin3-2.4.16.patch
from "kernel patches":https://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_patch.php .
grabbed mki-adapter.patch . Let's see if DebianLinuxJustWorks for building
patched kernels... ok, building a patched kernel (with the netraverse mki
patch and their 2.4.16 patch) was very straightforward, once I stopped
trying to be clever.

Then I installed their debian package (from the customer download area),
did loadwindowsCD, and then copied my win directory from my former
install (instead of doing installwindows again). It's working
now.

**8 Sep 2001**
Original order for win4lin; that's when
they sent me the license key.
]]>

AlwaysOnInternet

2004-08-16 15:59:44 64.126.89.30 connolly

fast and always on.

I love my WearableGizmo; its connection is not so fast, but pocket google rocks.

**22 Oct 2002**: switched to "Everest":http://www.everestkc.net/ , from rr.com, today.

Can I use any Internet software I want?

Yes.
everest FAQ

"webstar cablemodem":http://www.scientificatlanta.com/webstar

I use "roadrunner":http://www.rr.com/ since 17 Apr 2002. "Always" is relative, I guess.
Service outages: 30Jun: (not sure how much time).
8 Jul: 11:19am to 11:13pm.

**25Apr2002**: Monday I couldn't keep my ssh tunnels up; the day
was pretty much shot. Tuesday started the same way, so I called
Roadrunner. I had filled out their "have a sales droid call me"
forms any number of times with no response; but I must say
it's really easy to get signed up if you call them. They
showed up at 10am the next day, and I was online by 11am.
The bandwidth is noticeably (but not radically) better
than DSL (I consistently maxed out at 120KB/sec getting
debian stuff with DSL; I get more like 200KB/sec
with cablemodem). All sorts of things work now that didn't
before... like software updates on the iMac.

I called just now to cancel DSL service; after wading
thru about 7 levels of menu, a voice informed me
they were too busy to take my call and hung up on me.
That's typical of the service I've gotten from them.

I use to use southwestern bell DSL. They're fine
as long as you don't have to deal with them.
They're pretty reliable -- I can remember only
a handful of outages in the last year -- but they
have never explained any of the problems I've had.

The DSL service is provided via PPPOE. The amazing
thing about PPPOE is that you can run it *and*
IP on the same ethernet segment. That made my brain
hurt for a while, but I think I grok now.

I'm looking at time warner roadrunner service;
I used it back in Austin, and I was happy with it;
they keep sending me "sign up now!" flyers only
to say "no, we don't service your area yet" when
I try to sign up.

At Best Buy, I saw an offer for comcast cablemodem
service; gotta look into it.

"switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?":http://www.kclug.org/archives/2001/oct/0014.shtml Dan Connolly to KCLUG (10/03/01)

Sep 2002: "MICHAEL POWELL V. THE ECONOMY":http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=judis090202
Cable Access -- article looks interesting but I can't seem to find time to read it.

]]>

My first always-on connection was ISDN. The bandwidth wasn't great, but that doesn't matter. Always-on is the critical thing that makes using the net easier than opening the phone book.

As Tim Bray put it, fast and always on .

I love my WearableGizmo ; its connection is not so fast, but pocket google rocks.

22 Oct 2002 : switched to Everest , from rr.com, today.

Can I use any Internet software I want?

Yes.
everest FAQ

webstar cablemodem

I use roadrunner since 17 Apr 2002. "Always" is relative, I guess. Service outages: 30Jun: (not sure how much time). 8 Jul: 11:19am to 11:13pm.

25Apr2002 : Monday I couldn't keep my ssh tunnels up; the day was pretty much shot. Tuesday started the same way, so I called Roadrunner. I had filled out their "have a sales droid call me" forms any number of times with no response; but I must say it's really easy to get signed up if you call them. They showed up at 10am the next day, and I was online by 11am. The bandwidth is noticeably (but not radically) better than DSL (I consistently maxed out at 120KB/sec getting debian stuff with DSL; I get more like 200KB/sec with cablemodem). All sorts of things work now that didn't before... like software updates on the iMac.

I called just now to cancel DSL service; after wading thru about 7 levels of menu, a voice informed me they were too busy to take my call and hung up on me. That's typical of the service I've gotten from them.

I use to use southwestern bell DSL. They're fine as long as you don't have to deal with them. They're pretty reliable -- I can remember only a handful of outages in the last year -- but they have never explained any of the problems I've had.

The DSL service is provided via PPPOE. The amazing thing about PPPOE is that you can run it and IP on the same ethernet segment. That made my brain hurt for a while, but I think I grok now.

I'm looking at time warner roadrunner service; I used it back in Austin, and I was happy with it; they keep sending me "sign up now!" flyers only to say "no, we don't service your area yet" when I try to sign up.

At Best Buy, I saw an offer for comcast cablemodem service; gotta look into it.

switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner? Dan Connolly to KCLUG (10/03/01)

Sep 2002: MICHAEL POWELL V. THE ECONOMY Cable Access -- article looks interesting but I can't seem to find time to read it.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

CoolestBasement

2005-04-24 03:59:54 64.126.89.30 connolly

**31Dec2003**: MythTV sounds cool... debian packages, knoppix-based bootable CD (from slashdot Dave/Dina story).

**28Dec2003**: found a cool helicopter game (flash; oh well) at the house of a friend of the boys.

**13 July 2003** We couldn't pass up a Sharp 36" TV
at SAM's for $300 -- msrp is about $650, and street price is at least $550. (has S-Video in) This finally tilted the scale so that
we moved the A/V receiver from the "music room" to
the family room to set up a home theater. Movies are one way to ShareLifeThruArt.

* Aiwa AV-D58 (23Nov2001 $160.49 at Best Buy) (manual, review). **oops** it got zapped by lightning **Jul2004**.

* Mintek DVD-1600 (purchased 19July2002 from Best Buy) I figured out how to get the DVD player to send digital audio to the receiver... it sounded bad at first, until I realized most of the sound was aimed at the center channel speaker port which wasn't connected to anything.

* a MGM HT-3D home theater subwoofer and pair of satellite speakers (May 2003 from meritline.com for about $40. Sn 9207000206)

* Everest digital cable box

* a VCR we got at a garage sale for $5.

* a pair of speakers we got at a garage sale for $20

* a CD changer Mary has had since before we were married

So we're up to 5 remote control gimos. Ugh!
wow... Koss KS3101 home theater system is just $130 at amazon. has S-Video out.

Ah.. surround-sound format clues.
I needed those. Good; our receiver groks the two main ones: pro-logic and dolby-digital.

**4 Dec 2004**: Justin saved up enough for scannerz. Hmm...

**Apr2003**: adding a Nintendo Gamecube to the mix. Circuit city had it for $150 incl. 2 games.
@@why... KoolaidHouse and all that...
checked out the game market... these things aren't cheap! $50 or so new, and not even ebay has much better prices.
checked out the broadband adapter... not that interesting just now...

"Linux on the Gamecube?":http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/0151211&mode=thread July 18 2002. Nope.

Rather thatn using a TV, I hooked it up to a spare 19" VGA
monitor using a Verant Nintendo 64 / Gamecube VGA converter box.

(see also: "Game Consoles on Your Monitor?":http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/11/1814214&mode=thread)

From connolly Sun Apr 24 03:45:20 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:45:20 +0000
Subject: toward my own pvr
Message-ID: <20050424034520+0000@dm93.org>

picked up an ATI TV Wonder VE at microcenter because $30 seemed like a deal. It has hardware MPEG-2 encoding, which I don't think the other ATI card nor the WinCast card have.

tvtime built just fine on the ubuntu box. xmltv seems to work, after free registration. mythtv seems to be a hassle to build... ./configure showed "alsa: no" and I can't figure out why. Trying freevo...

More notes under my pvr tag.

Bummer... "The ATI TV Wonder VE, on the other hand, is not a good choice. Although it does use an 878 chip, direct audio capture is enabled on the VE card; you must connect an audio-out jack with your sound card. And it doesn't support stereo sound." LJ Mar 2003]]>

We set up the coolest basement in the world for Thanksgiving 2002 .

31Dec2003 : MythTV sounds cool... debian packages , knoppix-based bootable CD (from slashdot Dave/Dina story).

28Dec2003 : found a cool helicopter game (flash; oh well) at the house of a friend of the boys.

13 July 2003 We couldn't pass up a Sharp 36" TV at SAM's for $300 -- msrp is about $650, and street price is at least $550. (has S-Video in) This finally tilted the scale so that we moved the A/V receiver from the "music room" to the family room to set up a home theater. Movies are one way to ShareLifeThruArt .

Aiwa AV-D58 (23Nov2001 $160.49 at Best Buy) ( manual , review ). oops it got zapped by lightning Jul2004 .
Mintek DVD-1600 (purchased 19July2002 from Best Buy) I figured out how to get the DVD player to send digital audio to the receiver... it sounded bad at first, until I realized most of the sound was aimed at the center channel speaker port which wasn't connected to anything.
a MGM HT-3D home theater subwoofer and pair of satellite speakers (May 2003 from meritline.com for about $40. Sn 9207000206)
Everest digital cable box
a VCR we got at a garage sale for $5.
a pair of speakers we got at a garage sale for $20
a CD changer Mary has had since before we were married

So we're up to 5 remote control gimos. Ugh! wow... Koss KS3101 home theater system is just $130 at amazon. has S-Video out.

Ah.. surround-sound format clues . I needed those. Good; our receiver groks the two main ones: pro-logic and dolby-digital.

4 Dec 2004 : Justin saved up enough for scannerz. Hmm...

Apr2003 : adding a Nintendo Gamecube to the mix. Circuit city had it for $150 incl. 2 games. @@why... KoolaidHouse and all that... checked out the game market... these things aren't cheap! $50 or so new, and not even ebay has much better prices. checked out the broadband adapter... not that interesting just now...

Linux on the Gamecube? July 18 2002. Nope.

Rather thatn using a TV, I hooked it up to a spare 19" VGA monitor using a Verant Nintendo 64 / Gamecube VGA converter box .

(see also: Game Consoles on Your Monitor? )

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

toward my own pvr --connolly, Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:45:20 +0000 reply

picked up an ATI TV Wonder VE at microcenter because $30 seemed like a deal. It has hardware MPEG-2 encoding, which I don't think the other ATI card nor the WinCast card have.

More notes under my pvr tag .

SonyVaioJammer

2004-08-18 22:51:24 64.126.89.30 connolly

have
 my guitar in the room when I was choosing
 a name.
 
 
 **14Aug2004**: It's kaput. Hmm... ToMacOrNotToMac
 
 ted on inspiron
 
 What I like about it:
 
 * it's light.
 
 * the display is so crisp!
 
 * it's fast; made me realize how slow my 200mhz desktop machine is.
 
 * DebianLinuxJustWorks on it. **11Jan2003**: upgraded to DebianPackage:kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686 .
 I hesitated because I didn't see a companion pcmcia-modules package,
 but I get the impression that's no longer needed; indeed, my orinoco
 card works fine. My USB mouse didn't work at first, but I upgraded
 DebianPackage:hotplug and all seems well.(@@more on booting from USB floppy to re-install after disk replacement)
 
 * built-in ethernet
 
 * pcmcia 802.11 works great
 
 * USB is cool; I love my logitech USB optical mouse. **3Dec2003**: added a wireless optical to the kit. UPACode 097855017932. oops; epinions showed I could have paid less than $40.
 
 
 * suspend and hibernate work great; I go months without
 actually rebooting linux.
 
 What I don't like:
 
 * the disk is going bad! (see also: Hugo's disk problem@@)
 
 * the keyboard is a little cramped
 
 * firewire chipset is too closed to be supported by linux (hm...
 maybe not... "However, it is supported," says "Hugo's notes":http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/linux-vaio#ilink
 indeed... lspci reports
 00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02)
 and the "linux 1394":http://www.linux1394.org/ stuff says the CXD3222 is
 reported to be OCHI-happy, i.e. supported. This is more relevant that
 the MaJoStudio includes a digital video camera. Grumble... of course,
 the firewire port on the iMac is 6-pin while the i.Link port
 on this machine is 4-pin. Those cables aren't cheap!)
 
 
 **24Jan2003**: upgraded to 2.6 the other day. Having problems
 resuming from stand-by. Who knows if they're causally related.
 named went nutso when I connected to an 802.11 provider in LGA.
 DebianPackage:djbdns-installer to the rescue!
 
 
linux on vaio of Oct 19, 2000]]>

I got a new laptop in Feb 2001; a Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE. I named it "jammer" because I happened to have my guitar in the room when I was choosing a name.

14Aug2004 : It's kaput. Hmm... ToMacOrNotToMac

ted on inspiron

What I like about it:

it's light.
the display is so crisp!
it's fast; made me realize how slow my 200mhz desktop machine is.
DebianLinuxJustWorks on it. 11Jan2003 : upgraded to DebianPackage:kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686 . I hesitated because I didn't see a companion pcmcia-modules package, but I get the impression that's no longer needed; indeed, my orinoco card works fine. My USB mouse didn't work at first, but I upgraded DebianPackage:hotplug and all seems well.(@@more on booting from USB floppy to re-install after disk replacement)
built-in ethernet
pcmcia 802.11 works great
USB is cool; I love my logitech USB optical mouse. 3Dec2003 : added a wireless optical to the kit. UPACode 097855017932. oops; epinions showed I could have paid less than $40.
suspend and hibernate work great; I go months without actually rebooting linux.

What I don't like:

the disk is going bad! (see also: Hugo's disk problem@@)
the keyboard is a little cramped
firewire chipset is too closed to be supported by linux (hm... maybe not... "However, it is supported," says Hugo's notes indeed... lspci reports 00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02) and the linux 1394 stuff says the CXD3222 is reported to be OCHI-happy, i.e. supported. This is more relevant that the MaJoStudio includes a digital video camera. Grumble... of course, the firewire port on the iMac is 6-pin while the i.Link port on this machine is 4-pin. Those cables aren't cheap!)

24Jan2003 : upgraded to 2.6 the other day. Having problems resuming from stand-by. Who knows if they're causally related. named went nutso when I connected to an 802.11 provider in LGA. DebianPackage:djbdns-installer to the rescue!

linux on vaio of Oct 19, 2000 ZWIKIMIDSECTION

CivicDuty

2005-05-25 14:48:09 83.97.9.236 connolly

Zaphod Beeblebrox,
the president of the galaxy in the Hitchhiker novels. He
was selected for his ability to distract the people from
the way government decisions were actually made.

See also: delicious bookmarks. ToDo: integrate them realtime... client-side using javascript/xslt? or server-side? hmm... bake/fry...

**1Nov2004**: Via a slashdot article, I learn of the Intelligent Design article in Wikipedia,
where we see "Opponents of ID, who include the overwhelming majority of the scientific community, ..." Hmm... is
that NPOV? OK, it's backed by "To date, intelligent design has been able to publish one single peer-reviewed article in a scientific journal ...". A The Crusade Against Evolution in wired makes ID proponents sound like scoundrels, but I don't see anything other than circumstantial evidence. I'll have to study it further. I keep losing my notes on this stuff. Let's see:

* when? board of education in Kansas

* July 16, 2000, attend seminar on intelligent design at GF. Get a copy of the July/August 1999 issue of Touchstone magazine, including an article by Meyer, "Word Games: DNA, Design & Intelligence" including a "Beyond the Reach of Chance" section that says "... the probability of constructing a rather short, functional protein at random becomes so small as to be effectively zero (no more than 1 chance in 10^125)" and the analogy to forensics seemed apt. But... ugh... Meyer's Hopeless Monster shows Meyer's research is suspect. AAAS Board Resolution on Intelligent Design Theory is pretty point-blank.

* TAG lunch with Dave Orchard

* WWW2003, Guha cites Blind watchmaker (21 May notes)

* 22 Oct 2004: Grunlan cites case for a creator

* 1 Nov 2004: slashdot article

Nearby, in same-sex marriage, "The moral legitimacy of marriage between two people of the same sex hinges on how the authoritative definition of marriage is derived." Huh? The moral legitimacy has
at least as much to do with the consequences on the affected people as how the
definition of words is derived. I think I've seen research data on this; I hope to contribute
it to the discussion.

**28Oct2004**: In the presidential
election, campaign finance reform
is the biggest issue, to me,
but the only candidate with an interesting position on that (Dean) got eliminated
in the primaries. Hmm... Nader... well, a vote for Nader might as well
be a vote for Bush.

Johnson County Election Office
has the ballot. Aside from the presidential election,
we have the Bistate Tax, Kansas supreme court judges (e.g. Beier).
ProLife Candidates.org has a useful tool.

Hmm... OP chamber won't endorse Bistate 2 (finally found the actual article, after swatting away a zillion cookies and pay-for-archive newspaper sites).
but the KC chamber of commerce did. I'd like to know more about how they work.
They need some WebMasterClues: the cost of aliases (cf webarch; session-id redirect from their homepage), why "click here" sucks (cf QA tips, WAI guidelines). But their legislative survey is excellent info; I'm not sure
how to link to the survey itself, but one candidate's answers are handy.

ah... there it is: Electoral Vote Predictor,
from Bray on politics.

**19Aug2004**:
mnot's note
about apple's summary
reminds me of Bray's exhortation to read the
9/11 commission report... hmm... can't
find Bray's exhortation... maybe it was philg?

**1Aug2004**: had lunch with a guy who was agitating
for justice for the minority in
Cameroon;
he was so oppressed that he narrowly escaped the country
with his life. He had to leave is family there.
Now *that* is taking your civic duty seriously!

**18Jul2004**: Fahrenheit 9/11 ... wow...
if half of that is true... fork discussion...

I saw the Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads story on slashdot; it took a day or so to grab by bittorrent... hmm... not sure exactly
which torrent I used.
torrentractor's entry agrees
with my copy about filename (Fahrenheit.911.SVCD-TS.Centropy.DIVX_Xtech.avi
) and bytesize (730007020) but I can't reproduce their hash (dd0d124607b99bf3da745b7eaa46cee5a17d9611)
with md5sum (a15923e19edf830812aa362476f0236e) nor sha1sum (0434a06feed3488983eee49a123b9d68b02c598d)

This seems to work, though:

btdownloadgui 'http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/download_16066'

**30Jul2004**:
the Democratic party wants to have an extended tightly-controlled five-day infomercial; the last thing they want is actual news.
Bray

**3Jul2004** a Protect your family petition
from a friend sent me spelunking.
I read Wikipedia's hate crime article
and an ACA
update

Hmm... I'd like to learn how to follow the trail from political rhetoric and news media back to the
authoritative sources. I think every high school kid should be taught how to do it. Maybe I'll learn
by teaching a course at the local junior college.

**22Mar2004** John Gilmore, Entrepreneur and Civil Libertarian.
Amen; preach, brother!

**30Dec2003** voter registration card issued **24Dec2003**...
Johnson County Election Office... crud; I'm unaffiliated.
I thought I was registered republican --- not to endorse their agenda, but
because I realized that in Kansas, republicans pretty much
always get elected; it's a matter of *which* republican.
And to get involved in that decision, i.e. the primaries,
you have to be a registered republican.

Hmm... the purpose of the public education system is to have educated voters, yes? then why do we learn so little about how to vote in school? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. My school these days is often Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
so... U.S. presidential election, 2004.

Dean seems interesting... "While presidential campaigns have been traditionally financed by tapping wealthy, established political donors, Dean's funds have come largely in small donations over the Internet; the average overall donation size is just under $80." but... "... he ranks first in total raised ($25.4 million...). However, even this performance pales to next to George W. Bush, who has so far raised $84.6 million for a primary campaign in which he has no challenger." Yikes!

"As a physician, I do not like the idea that Congress or the President think they should practice medicine. Abortion is a deeply personal decision which ought to be made between the patient, the family and physician. It's none of the government's business." Yes, if only it were so... "I will unflinchingly defend a woman's right to choose against those who would take away this right." Does that mean he's going to get the government to stop funding abortions? See
gartl ad: What if your Taxes paid for Abortions?.
(see also: Advice and Aid, here in the OPKS area).

**16Dec2003** following on UN Geneva stuff...
Electronic Individual Voting, by McCarthy
appeals to me as a nice, fractal form of democracy. Advogato trust metric likewise. Debian is remakably scalable...

Is This 'An Occasion to Celebrate'

2003 California recall - Wikipedia

(from esw wikimarklet)

**Jun 2003**: philg on israel.

**13Apr2003** Is `shareholder democracy' an oxymoron? By Floyd Norris. see also: FractalAccounting

**3Apr2003**: I'm interested in ways that the net/web can really have
impact on civic issues. e.g. "3908 signatories endorse the Bill Gates, Buy the Rainforests Petition":http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?raingate

**29Mar2003**: "John Thompson, candidate for city council":http://www.jocoelection.org/04-03/4-03thompson.htm ,
just knocked on my door asking for support. What does
the "OPKS city council":http://www.opkansas.org/_Gov/index.cfm do, anyway?
**1Jun2003**: oh good; he got elected to the "city council":http://www.opkansas.org/_Gov/Mayor_&_Council/council_directory.cfm

**17Mar2003**: I never thought I'd be explaining to my kids
that we're going to war.

**27Jan2003**: got a census from the replublican national committee...
""Do you support President Bush's initiatives to promote
the safety and security of all Americans?" Er... which initiatives,
exactly? It seems to be full of "when did you stop beating your wife?"
questions.

* "My RNC Census Answers":http://www.commonvoice.com/features/article.asp?id=573
June 20, 2002. Ben Graydon

I registered as a republican not to endorse their agenda, but
because I realized that in Kansas, republicans pretty much
always get elected; it's a matter of *which* republican.
And to get involved in that decision, i.e. the primaries,
you have to be a registered republican.

@@more on SB39... gartl...

tax grumbles in FractalAccounting...

on Sep 11... "The New War Against Terror":http://www.zmag.org/GlobalWatch/chomskymit.htm Chomsky...
I think that's the one I found 8Aug2002 from Muiguel on advogato.

"Jefferson could never completely separate education from government."
-- "Jefferson, Education and the Franchise":http://earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/jefferson.html by Professor Thomas Jewett

found while thinking about a name for this page...

* "Portals Do Their Civic Duty":http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020404S0013 April 8, 2002
States are lining up to give citizens online access to services
By Tony Kontzer with Eric Chabrow

public agenda
(from my
research notebook; version
1.30 included netscape bookmark metadata ala
ADD_DATE="920352291" which means I bookmarked
it on 1999-03-02)

From connolly Wed Nov 3 18:15:42 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:15:42 +0000
Subject: required reading for BV students
Message-ID: <20041103181542+0000@dm93.org>

Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools shows BV has some iffy stuff on its required reading list. Better let the board know what I think.

From connolly Sun Nov 7 13:26:52 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:26:52 +0000
Subject: donated to VerifiedVoting.org
Message-ID: <20041107132652+0000@dm93.org>

I just donated to VerifiedVotng.org on AaronSw's prompting.

From connolly Wed Dec 8 16:23:05 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:23:05 +0000
Subject: "It's a small piece, but it's a piece on which I can act"
Message-ID: <20041208162305+0000@dm93.org>

Ben A, 3 Nov 2004. Amen.

From connolly Tue Dec 28 23:44:17 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:44:17 +0000
Subject: donated to IFRCS to help with Indian Ocean Earthquake
Message-ID: <20041228234417+0000@dm93.org>

After reading about the Indian Ocean earthquake, I was flabbergasted at the number of lives lost. I managed to collect my wits enough to donate via the IFRCS.

See also: tsunami bookmarks on del.icio.us

From connolly Thu Dec 30 10:12:05 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:12:05 +0000
Subject: Harvard conference on Internet and Election 2004
Message-ID: <20041230101205+0000@dm93.org>

Internet + Society 2004 -- Did the Internet change the Election? Dec 9-11 2004 at Harvard.

From connolly Wed May 25 14:48:09 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:48:09 +0000
Subject: toward collaborative public policy
Message-ID: <20050525144809+0000@dm93.org>

Saw a bunch of nifty talks on facilitating dialog between government and the people, especially in the UK, in the open data track of XTech. talkeuro. I learned about the Hansard, the official record of the UK parliment.]]>

FractalAccounting

2005-05-15 06:04:09 64.126.89.30 connolly

A 1992 study by political scientist James L. Payne estimated that Americans spend roughly 5.4 billion man-hours computing their taxes.(15) This is more man-hours than used to build every car, van, truck, and airplane manufactured in the United States. It is more than the total number of hours worked in a year by every resident of the state of Indiana. The deadweight economic loss is estimated by Dr. Payne at well over $200 billion.
-- "The Economic and Civil Liberties Case for a National Sales Tax":http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp5-11-5.html
Stephen Moore
Director
Fiscal Policy Studies
Cato Institute

Before the Hoover Institution conference "Frontiers of Tax Reform"
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.

May 11, 1995

Quicken (on WinFourLinOnDebian) works pretty well; I love using Quicken
across an X-windows connection! But it's not fractal at all:
there's a very hard border around quicken; it does import/export, but it's not
scriptable, and transaction ids, if there are any, are not exported, so it's
hard to build a sync infrastructure around it. Maybe I can set up my own OFX service or something.
Meanwhile, I'm developing "quacken":http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/quacken/ which lets
me at least keep a parallel set of records in one
of the few formats I trust: CVS-backed text files.

(confidential FamilyRecords thingy didn't really work out. but notes on WearableGizmo does.)

hmm... ConfidentialityVersusAvailability... I keep an rsync backup on dm93qdata on mmac in
addition to the CVS-backed text files. ToDo: I'd like to make it more available, so that I
can search the text files from my WearableGizmo (made some progress **29Dec2003**).

hmm... paper statements are sometimes handy; when are they critical?

ToDo: notarize tax records, ala Mark Manasse's
"Why Rights Management is Wrong (and What to Do Instead)":http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/pp/compaq.html
paper at the "DRM workshop":http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/ , 2001 in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
(among my 2001 trips)

stamper digital time
stamp service

**2Oct2004**: looked at switching to gnucash again; still can't find budget support. Begged a bit in GnuCashUsing

**13July2004**: labcorp billing got it right.
I got a bill in the post; keyed in the address from the bill, used some of the details from
the bill to authenticate myself (no password to manage!) and paid the bill. Hmm... I can't
remember if they allowed me to schedule it for later payment. One of the reasons I don't
use discover's online bill payment is that it doesn't let me schedule payments right before
the due date like my bank does.

**17Mar2004**: hmm... Kurush looks simple
and clean... based on mono... hmm...

**Nov 2003**: working with an American Express financial advisor.

**Oct 2003**: Greenspun likes Vanguard.
Interesting... so does Mary's sister.

**Aug 2003**: Community Currencies:
A New Tool for the 21st Century
Bernard A. Lietaer. money that leaks. He makes a pretty good argument
that stored-value financial instruments are harmful. My buddy Mark Schreiner says this
is bunk. Gotta study the situation more.

**3Mar2003**: hmm...
"moneydance on OSX":http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/moneydance/
"moneydance 2003":http://moneydance.com/ "on slashdot":http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/28/1811250.shtml?tid=185
nifty... integrated python interpreter. "dev docs":http://64.83.23.228/developer.shtml

**2003-02-27**: WebFile - Kansas Department of Revenue

**16Feb2003**: reviewing "Edward Jones":http://www.edwardjones.com/ statements, there's an article John W. Bachmann,
Manging Partner, thought all his customers should read; I figure I'm not going
to invest the time to read it unless I can cite in in the web and such; google
is my friend:

Warren Buffett on the Stock Market
What's in the future for investors--another roaring bull market or more upset stomach? Amazingly, the answer may come down to three simple factors. Here, the world's most celebrated investor talks about what really makes the market tick--and whether that ticking should make you nervous.
"FORTUNE":http://www.fortune.com/fortune
Thursday, December 6, 2001
By Carol Loomis

Hmm... in ej accountlink, no option for snail-mail preferences. I'd
prefer that for anything in the public web (e.g.
"prospectus":http://www.americanfunds.com/pdf/shareholder/npf-010_npfp.pdf
for this
new perspective fund
) they'd just send me email with a pointer. As to personal stuff
like statements, I don't find .com web site sufficiently
reliable, available, and WaiHappy to replace paper yet. Annual report
seems to come in hardcopy form only. Very glossy.

Holy cow! the fund's #1 holding is AOL-TW! Eek! And I'm indirectly
investing in Philip Morris. Eek. Hmm... didn't I see some options
for christian mutual funds at PromiseKeepersStLouis?

wow... "gnuCASH":http://www.gnucash.org/ looks quite good... perhaps worth trying.
**28Jul2002**: looked it over carefully. 2 things I can't figure out how to transfer
from Quicken: classes (not categories), and budgets.

**29Jul2002**: Aha! "# In the Quicken Account to Export from field, select the Quicken account you want to export. To export all accounts, select the All Accounts option."
-- "converting Quickent from Windows to Mac":http://www.intuit.com/support/quicken/2002/mac/2159.html

**12 Jul 2002** "chat with xover ":http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-07-12#T19-30-31

**Dec 2002** Hmm... reviewing medical expenses has been stressful lately ().
MedicalOrthodoxy.

upgrade quicken:

11/19/00 Citi Visa HI S OFFICE MAX 00005298 OVERLAND PARKKS Quicken 2001 Basic Stuff:Media R -29.95

ToDo: find record of first quicken purchase.

"saCASH":http://sacash.sourceforge.net/ seems to have matured a bit since I discovered it (@@when?).
Hmm... more recent designs seem over-engineered... enterprise Java buzzword fest.

Mike Dean's "DAML Expense Reconciliation":http://www.daml.org/2001/06/expenses/

older notes: "Personal Finances, Small Business Accounting":http://www.w3.org/2000/08/palm56/exp.html

From connolly Tue Jan 11 01:25:41 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:25:41 +0000
Subject: reconsidering Moneydance
Message-ID: <20050111012541+0000@dm93.org>

Quicken reminded us that their sunset policy means they're discontinuing support for quicken 2001 and 2002 online services as of April 2005, so I looked at Quicken 2005 for Mac; it would be nice to eliminate the dependency on WinFourLinOnDebian. They claim to offer chat technical support, but I waited for over 10 minutes and got no response. Bzzt.

So I'm looking at Moneydance again... nice
mailing list, new wiki.
Python scripting interface... hmm... how does it work? ahh... finally! found discussion
of python examples

Is it smart about importing QIF files? Yes... matching interface is better than Quicken's.

My quacken stuff solves the duplicate transfer problem, but... hmm... what about classes? 4 oct 2004 question about classes went unanswered. Eek... cut/paste problem report went unanswered too. Hmm... lots of important report features missing: multi-column report (e.g. quarterly net worth), subtotal-by category/class/payee/etc., quickzoom.

From connolly Wed Feb 16 17:11:21 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:11:21 +0000
Subject: Taxes on 43 Things
Message-ID: <20050216171121+0000@dm93.org>

We got our taxes done, thanks to webturbotax. They still claim to not support firefox on linux, though I haven't tried just chaning the user agent string. I used firefox on a Mac.

I just found file taxes on 43 things. Cool. Architected for participation, ala Tim O'Reilly at W3C10

From connolly Sun May 15 06:04:09 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 06:04:09 +0000
Subject: glom: postgress, python, XSLT, CSS...
Message-ID: <20050515060409+0000@dm93.org>

see advogato diary entry]]>

RadioWatchGizmo

2004-11-04 00:08:13 64.126.89.30 connolly


 **Aug 2002**: my $10 watch broke. This atomic digital watch sure looks handy; not sure I want it $50 bad, though. Turns out I do; ordered it 1Sep (grumble... why doesn't my browser KeepPostRecords?)
 received it 9Sep:
 
 #rdfig-20020909:Sep 09 13:32:59 *	DanConn takes delivery of a watch that is supposed to set itself from radio signals... http://dm93.org/z2001/WearableGizmo
 
 #rdfig-20020909:Sep 09 13:59:19 	ugh... this 'atomic time' watch doesn't seem to know what time it is. It says 2:01p right now, but time from ntp is 1:59
 
 The documentation said signal reception is best from midnight to 6am,
 and sure enough, the watch synced up over night. I guess I'm happy enough with it,
 though...
 
 - it doesn't have a light, and
 
 - the current time zone isn't displayed
 by default.
 
 - it was really difficult adjusting the
 strap size.
 
 Some CueCat scan data: from the package; presumably a shipment identifier:
 Type: 128
 Code: 000000177526
 
 my order number:
 Type: C39
 Code: 3057825
 
 from the product package:
 UPACode: 757456003016
 La Crosse Technology radio controlled watch Model: WT-961A
 
 Hmm... I registered my product, using my yahoo 'consumer crud' email account.
 There was precious little confirmation of the registration.
 I looked at the source, and evidently it's just a form that mails
 the results to info@lacrossetechnology.com ; gee... couldn't they
 CC me? grumble KeepPostRecords
 
 From connolly Thu Nov 4 00:08:13 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:08:13 +0000
 Subject: timex 150
 Message-ID: <20041104000813+0000@dm93.org>
 
 New Timex 1440 arrived today. A little ugly, but quite functional.
 
 La Crosse watch diagnosed unfixable by K C Digital on 11 Sep.
]]>

Aug 2002 : my $10 watch broke. This atomic digital watch sure looks handy; not sure I want it $50 bad, though. Turns out I do; ordered it 1Sep (grumble... why doesn't my browser KeepPostRecords ?) received it 9Sep:

#rdfig-20020909:Sep 09 13:32:59 * DanConn takes delivery of a watch that is supposed to set itself from radio signals... http://dm93.org/z2001/WearableGizmo

ugh... this ]]> atomic time watch doesn't seem to know what time it is. It says 2:01p right now, but time from ntp is 1:59

The documentation said signal reception is best from midnight to 6am, and sure enough, the watch synced up over night. I guess I'm happy enough with it, though...

it doesn't have a light, and
the current time zone isn't displayed by default.
it was really difficult adjusting the strap size.

Some CueCat scan data: from the package; presumably a shipment identifier: Type: 128 Code: 000000177526

my order number: Type: C39 Code: 3057825

from the product package: UPACode : 757456003016 La Crosse Technology radio controlled watch Model: WT-961A

Hmm... I registered my product, using my yahoo consumer crud email account. There was precious little confirmation of the registration. I looked at the source, and evidently it's just a form that mails the results to info @ lacrossetechnology.com ; gee... couldn't they CC me? grumble KeepPostRecords ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

timex 150 --connolly, Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:08:13 +0000 reply

New Timex 1440 arrived today. A little ugly, but quite functional.

La Crosse watch diagnosed unfixable by K C Digital on 11 Sep.

AboutThisWiki

2005-06-08 05:07:01 64.126.89.30 connolly

ZoneEdit for DNS service. Hmm... where to keep notes about Gandi, the registrar I chose for dm93.org. InternetRealEstate? 11Sep2002: I think I'd like to try this ZSyncer thing. tried it (~Nov 2002). not impressed. Master/slave, not peer/peer. Not sure it handles all cases. Hmm... 26Jan2001... how about an online version of the PileOfOwnersManuals? On 23 Nov 2001, I upgraded dm93.org to zope 2.4 and installed this ZWiki product. (see WikiWikiWeb:DanConnolly for history of DanC and Wiki stuff). I got critical clues from "Installing and Upgrading Zope 2.X":http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO and from the friendly folks in "#zope":irc://irc.openprojects.net/zope on "Open Projects":http://www.openprojects.net/ . I'm noodling on what the write access policy is; I changed it so that authenticated users can write (I think). ZopeTweaks: I changed the ZWiki search box to use GET (why the heck did they use POST? "overuse of POST is evil":http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Input.html ). For my reference, let's keep the "management thingy":manage handy. Hmm... I kinda like this wiki; I have an older wiki that I'd like to import; let's call it FebShoalWiki. And let's pick up the ManagingExpectations idea there... See also: "geek cruise wiki":../y2001/gk2001/FrontPage . From connolly Day Jul 30 00:00:00 +0000 2004 From: connolly Date: 30 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: bliki wish and design sketch Message-ID: <20040730000000+0000@dm93.org> I want a bliki. Hmm... maybe it's just a matter of hacking the code behind RecentChanges. *design sketch*: each topic in the wiki gets a "most recent episode" date and text fields, as well as a last modified field, based on the **DDmmmYYYY** tags and/or **yyyy-mm-dd** tags. Then I'd make a WebLog node ala RecentChanges out of them. From connolly Day Aug 2 00:00:00 +0000 2004 From: connolly Date: 2 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: logs and DB getting out of control Message-ID: <20040802000000+0000@dm93.org> I told ted ages ago that I'd upgrade to the debian packages for zope, hoping they'd manage the logs. Hmm... ZopeWiki:ZopeOnDebian How big is my zope database?

 314714855 Aug 2 16:20 Data.fs
 89953210 Aug 2 16:22 Z2.log
 478M

From connolly Day Sep 29 00:00:00 +0000 2004 From: connolly Date: 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: upgraded to ZWiki-0.34.0 Message-ID: <20040929000000+0000@dm93.org> upgraded zwiki to ZWiki-0.34.0.tgz It was a bit bumpy. Thanks, sm, for the help in #zope! dm93.org is now on flanders, the new people.w3.org. I'm using the debian zope package, so my logs are now under control. Hmm... there's a zope2.7 package that uses modern python... From connolly Fri Nov 6 00:00:00 +0000 2004 From: connolly Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: unborked LocalFS Message-ID: <20041106000000+0000@dm93.org> Finally restored all my LocalFS-based pictures and such to health. Used LocalFS-1.3-andreas.tar.gz, thanks to some folks in #zope. Upgraded to DebianPackage:zope2.7 while I was at it. From connolly Tue Nov 9 04:27:25 +0000 2004 From: connolly Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:27:25 +0000 Subject: RFE: email updates Message-ID: <20041109042725+0000@dm93.org> ToDo: ZopeWiki RFE: email updates. Hmm... Generic form update by email service? My WearableGizmo, like many platforms, knows that ESemWeb:IntegrityIsJobOne when it comes to composing mail; pending edits survive reboots and such? but I doubt pending form submissions do. (from a 2Jan2002 entry in ScriptureNotes) From connolly Mon Feb 21 15:57:54 +0000 2005 From: connolly Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:57:54 +0000 Subject: testing Monkey Journal Message-ID: <20050221155754+0000@dm93.org>

So Norm is Joining the Folksonomy Fray with RelTag. Yay! typed links finally hit the mainstream! So I'm thinking upgradingmy wiki to grok all this structured collaboration goodness going on..

Testing Monkey Journal ... ooh! it does The Right Thing with links dragged from firefox! e.g.

hmm... how about excerpting...

Monkey Journal has category support built into the interface
Monkey Journal

hmm... tolerable.

spell-checking is nice...

I wonder if it knows that IntegrityIsJobOne.

hmm... can I view source while editing somehow?

Can't seem to follow links while editing.

Heh... Preferences is misspelled in the menu.

From connolly Wed Mar 23 03:19:01 +0000 2005 From: connolly Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:19:01 +0000 Subject: restoring google ads Message-ID: <20050323031901+0000@dm93.org> hmm... can't figure out where the "truth" for the page templates is... maybe the content is cached... adding a comment should flush the cache, I'd think... From connolly Wed Jun 8 05:07:01 +0000 2005 From: connolly Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:07:01 +0000 Subject: toward episodic publishing Message-ID: <20050608050701+0000@dm93.org> I think what I write is more in the blog genre than the wiki genre; I don't actually collaboratively work toward conventional wisdom; I just jot down 1st-person thoughts. Thinking about how to migrate my content to the modern idioms (RSS, comments, trackback, tags, etc.) I re-discover my experiment with Zope templates of 2005-01-01 00:33.]]>

TheOriginalHypertext

2004-11-09 07:48:23 64.126.89.30 connolly

Robin Cover's bibliography, and if you trace that back before the days of corporate sponsorship, you will find that the previous host was SIL International, which was founded to promote Bible translation. Much of the hypertext technology, and indeed much of the techniques of literary analysis, have their roots in the search to understand the written word of God.

Once, in the heat of an argument about web architecture, Tim Bray took me to task for quoting TimBL's writings "chapter and verse" without justification, as if they were divinely revealed truth, not to be questioned. He was quite right that this is a counter-productive tactic in technical discussions, but the parallel between web addresses and scripture citations has stuck with me. To some, "John 3:16" is perhaps recognizeable as a reference to scripture but means little more; to others it's a deeply meaningful symbol about the relationship between God and man. A link to that verse it makes the text of the verse available in a second or two to anybody who cares to follow the link. (The whole story about the relationship between God and man might take a little longer to appreciate ;-)
BibleVerse:John+3:16 is something in-between; it's InterWiki notation, which is a little easier to write than the other link.

The word "bible" is Greek for "book"; at one point, "the book" was an unambiguous reference to the bible. Jesus used to say "it is written..." and the Jews understood that to mean "it is written in scripture." Modern bibles have footnotes and such that make the connection between, say, BibleVerse:Matt+1:23 and BibleVerse:Isaiah+7:14 explicit, but at that time the scholars could make the connection by memory (and the others accepted it on authority, I suppose). As far as I can tell, these are the oldest surviving hypertext links. The bible is clearly not one linear text; its structure is much richer.

The forward references are perhaps the most interesting. Citing earlier works is clearly something mere mortals can do, but when the pslamist writes, hundreds of years before Jesus is born, before crucifixion was perfected by the Romans, that the messiah would be "pierced for his transgressions," that seems divinely inspired. (See Medical Aspects of the Crucifixion for a full account.)

The history of transportation technology plays an interesting role as well; the roman persecution of the early church prompted Chrisitians to spread out, and the roman roads facilitated the spread of copies of the new testament over much of the empire, resulting in an unprecedented number of copies of a text from that time.

Thoughts on Annotations

I'd like to use "annotea":http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea to connect my to
an online copy of the bible... e.g. songs related
to scripture versus, audio recordings of sermons
that I've attended... presentation materials too.

For now, let's use InterWiki: BibleGateway, BibleBook, BibleVerse

Church Webmaster

I started maintaing
the church web site in 2003, after a few years of wondering things like:
do they keep the presentation materials around? Are they interested in
publishing them? How about online copies of the sermons? I researched open source
audio publishing tools (ogg vorbis, VCD, esd etc.) around **2Jan2002**.

There's such a huge gap between the Microsoft-dominated
IT world and the world of open source and open standards that I'm used
to working in; it's a struggle to bridge the gap.

]]>

The history of communications technology can be fascinating. Gutenberg’s Bible is famously known as the first printed book; of course anit-establishment works and smut were among the first uses of the printing press too. Sex and death often drive technology development; the spread of the VCR was fueled by the porn market and the Internet was initiall funded by U.S. defense research funds (and of course porn plays a role there too). But if you look into the history of popular hypertext, i.e. the World Wide Web, you will find many paths that lead to Robin Cover's bibliography , and if you trace that back before the days of corporate sponsorship, you will find that the previous host was SIL International , which was founded to promote Bible translation. Much of the hypertext technology, and indeed much of the techniques of literary analysis, have their roots in the search to understand the written word of God.

Once, in the heat of an argument about web architecture, Tim Bray took me to task for quoting TimBL's writings "chapter and verse" without justification, as if they were divinely revealed truth, not to be questioned. He was quite right that this is a counter-productive tactic in technical discussions, but the parallel between web addresses and scripture citations has stuck with me. To some, "John 3:16" is perhaps recognizeable as a reference to scripture but means little more; to others it's a deeply meaningful symbol about the relationship between God and man. A link to that verse it makes the text of the verse available in a second or two to anybody who cares to follow the link. (The whole story about the relationship between God and man might take a little longer to appreciate ;-) BibleVerse:John+3:16 is something in-between; it's InterWiki notation, which is a little easier to write than the other link.

Thoughts on Annotations

I'd like to use annotea to connect my to an online copy of the bible... e.g. songs related to scripture versus, audio recordings of sermons that I've attended... presentation materials too.

For now, let's use InterWiki : BibleGateway , BibleBook , BibleVerse

Church Webmaster

I started maintaing the church web site in 2003, after a few years of wondering things like: do they keep the presentation materials around? Are they interested in publishing them? How about online copies of the sermons? I researched open source audio publishing tools (ogg vorbis, VCD, esd etc.) around 2Jan2002 .

There's such a huge gap between the Microsoft-dominated IT world and the world of open source and open standards that I'm used to working in; it's a struggle to bridge the gap.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

TravelCheckList

2005-05-16 16:09:50 64.126.89.30 connolly

notes on sidekick

* ride to the airport: Mike Shapiro (better service than quicksilver)

* In flight power... yum. seatguru. Hmm...
the PowerXtender I got for SonyVaioJammer doesn't match my new PbJam.
This SmartDisk Airline Adapter for Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium for just $19.95 looks like it'll work, and I have an amazon reward certificate for $25, but I don't see how to get it shpped to me before I leave on Tue, 14 Sep.
The microcenter has a Macintosh Universal Car/Air Adapter for $79.99. For $40 more they have one that replaces the AC adapter too.

* March 2004 trip to NCE for W3C Tech Plenary ESemWeb:InstantGig

* flight track doodad: AA 1588 DFW to MCI

* weather (e.g. boston for **Jan2004** trip, PHL for Dec,
Yokohama weather for Nov 2003 trip,
SNA weather for Feb 2003 trip)

* passport, if international trip (copy in lockbox and on disk)

* power adapters; e.g. Apr 2004 AMS: C, F.

Noise-cancelling headphones... Sennheiser PXC250 at ABT Electronics for $135.00. $84.99 at Amazon, but Discover has a $40-gets-you-$80 thing at ABT. Are
those the ones I was drooling over in EWR on my way to Basel in Oct? Yes, I think so.

BibleVerse:Galatians+5:22-23

After the trip:

* photos
* sunrise by ndw "I bet the sunsets are nice too, but I never get to see them. The chairs keep us chained in our meetings until after dark."
* jacek's @@
* dajobe's
* libby's

hmm... VideoPresence for waving to the kids....india

From connolly Mon Jan 17 16:26:50 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:26:50 +0000
Subject: Helsinki trip: KLM/Northwest
Message-ID: <20050117162650+0000@dm93.org>

I'm not flying AA like I usually do. My flight track doodad came up empty on KL7536; KLM's web site asks me where I'm from and redirects me to
Northwest's web site, which seems reasonably straightforward; flight status is REST-happy (e.g. MSP to AMS leg of my trip, on a DC10). Ugh... no seat power for the long leg of the trip... maybe I'm InTheMarket for another battery for PbJam. I got new noise cancelling headphones for Christmas. I was going to go to the library to get some DVDs, but I'm not sure I have time. I've got a little new music... oh yeah... I wonder if I can grab Staccato 6 somehow.

From connolly Wed Feb 16 17:39:05 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:39:05 +0000
Subject: wikitravel
Message-ID: <20050216173905+0000@dm93.org>

Hmm... my next trip is to Boston (as was my last trip). I don't see anything remarkable in the wikitravel article on Boston, but since wikipedia rocks so amazingly, I think I'll keep it in mind.]]>

The PerfectOffice goes mobile occasionally (but not too much! @@mgmt bk...)

DebianPackage:signing-party gpg-key2ps

@@earlier checklists... RedundanyInAllCriticalSystems ... notes on sidekick

ride to the airport: Mike Shapiro (better service than quicksilver )
In flight power... yum. seatguru . Hmm... the PowerXtender I got for SonyVaioJammer doesn't match my new PbJam . This SmartDisk Airline Adapter for Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium for just $19.95 looks like it'll work, and I have an amazon reward certificate for $25, but I don't see how to get it shpped to me before I leave on Tue, 14 Sep. The microcenter has a Macintosh Universal Car/Air Adapter for $79.99. For $40 more they have one that replaces the AC adapter too.
March 2004 trip to NCE for W3C Tech Plenary ESemWeb:InstantGig
flight track doodad : AA 1588 DFW to MCI
weather (e.g. boston for Jan2004 trip, PHL for Dec , Yokohama weather for Nov 2003 trip, SNA weather for Feb 2003 trip)
passport, if international trip (copy in lockbox and on disk )
power adapters; e.g. Apr 2004 AMS: C , F .

Noise-cancelling headphones... Sennheiser PXC250 at ABT Electronics for $135.00. $84.99 at Amazon, but Discover has a $40-gets-you-$80 thing at ABT. Are those the ones I was drooling over in EWR on my way to Basel in Oct? Yes, I think so.

BibleVerse:Galatians+5:22-23

After the trip:

photos * sunrise by ndw "I bet the sunsets are nice too, but I never get to see them. The chairs keep us chained in our meetings until after dark." jacek's @@ dajobe's * libby's

hmm... VideoPresence for waving to the kids....india ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

Helsinki trip: KLM/Northwest --connolly, Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:26:50 +0000 reply

I'm not flying AA like I usually do. My flight track doodad came up empty on KL7536; KLM's web site asks me where I'm from and redirects me to Northwest's web site , which seems reasonably straightforward; flight status is REST-happy (e.g. MSP to AMS leg of my trip, on a DC10 ). Ugh... no seat power for the long leg of the trip... maybe I'm InTheMarket for another battery for PbJam . I got new noise cancelling headphones for Christmas. I was going to go to the library to get some DVDs , but I'm not sure I have time. I've got a little new music... oh yeah... I wonder if I can grab Staccato 6 somehow.

wikitravel --connolly, Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:39:05 +0000 reply

Hmm... my next trip is to Boston (as was my last trip). I don't see anything remarkable in the wikitravel article on Boston , but since wikipedia rocks so amazingly, I think I'll keep it in mind.

ChristmasCardRitual

2004-12-20 17:21:59 64.126.89.30 connolly

**15Feb2004**: found GRAMPS
 in gnome footnotes... and yes, there's a DebianPackage:gramps. It seems
 quite nice... hmm... file format is *almost* RDF.
 
 **Dec2003**
 Family tree update worked prett well:
 dm93fam.png
 dm93fam.ps
 dm93fam.svg
 
 see HonorTheFamilyName
 
 
 
 hmmm... spreadsheet? bulk export of WearableGizmo addressbook?
 
 hmm... I like year-in-review letters, esp the ones my Dad writes. But
 Christmas is getting close and I don't want the perfect to get in the
 way of the good. I also like letters with selected photos. Our iPhoto
 collection is too intimidating. I got it down to 6 pages of pictures (@@xmas 2003 album export?)
 but there's not much bang-for-the-buck there.
 Christmas letter draft in email.
 
 Mark S... soulscoring. ShareLifeThruArt.
 
 '82 classmates
 from St. Ann's
 
 (interesting... Prairie Village web site)
 
 print addressbook in label form
 
 
 hmm... phone numbers and email addresses? they're most useful in
 a user agent where they're used; e.g. in evolution and in my cellphone. But RedundancyInAllCriticalSystems
 says a hardcopy is in order. Or is it enough to reconstruct my email addressbook from, say, my
 outgoing email? handy source of email addresses of personal contacts include birth announcements, e.g.
 message-log-1999-0833:<37B91180.47C3A3A0@w3.org> Tue, 17 Aug 1999 02:38:40 -0500
 \\ Kyle Patrick Connolly is Born. 
 
 Of course, in the age of email, a Christmas card is a rare opportunity to send
 a message (such as a key fingerprint) thru a pretty secure channel. Hmm...
 
 
yahoo address book (@@also: RDF export)
 
 
 **Dec2002**
 This year, the ritual reminds me of
 
 * Det, "Aspen '93":http://dm93.org/y1993/9309aspen/index.html
 
 * Rost, Miege '86. I went
 to see if they keep the "Miege Matters" newsletter online, so I could
 throw away my paper copies (see also: LOCKSS,
 my Nov 2002 notes on LOCKSS).
 Not only do they not have the newsletter online, they use frames and javascript and stuff.
 They could clearly use some WebMasterClues.
 
 * Eric Ryan; unsent card from 2000 has his address on it.
 
 
 * Michael K. Johnson met him on 2001 Linux Lunacy geek cruise.
 I like Jon Howell's faith statement too... hmm... one
 for ScriptureNotes.
 
 **29 Dec 2001**
 Christmas Cards, Address Books, and Maps, in rdfig. @@script to do mailing labels from RDF; 0110pim includes transcription of personal correspondence by post in 2001.
 
 
 **Dec1998**:
 correspondence log in HTML,
 revision 1.1 1998/12/23 06:12:24;
 seems to be derived from 1998 post scpreadsheet.
 
 
 post log spreadsheet thru '97.
 
 year in review letter
 
 
authentication notes in research notebook.
 
 
 
 circa 1990, in VolleyBallInDallas days: one-line-per-person text file. scribble on it,
 then key in the scribbles periodially. Hakon, do you still keep yours like that?
 
 circa 1988, in UTMac days: hypercard addressbook
 
 
 From connolly Mon Dec 20 17:13:49 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:13:49 +0000
 Subject: label printing revisited
 Message-ID: <20041220171349+0000@dm93.org>
 
 trying to remember how I figured out how to print labels.
 
  xmasLabels.ps: xmasLabels.rdf $(SWAP)/pim/jobieLabels.pl
 	$(PERL) $(SWAP)/pim/jobieLabels.pl xmasLabels.rdf >$@
 
 xmasLabels.rdf: contactLabels.n3 contact.rdf
 	$(PYTHON) $(SWAP)/cwm.py contact.rdf contactLabels.n3 --filter=contactLabels.n3 --data --rdf >$@
 
 
 where contactLables.n3 maps from danger vocab
 to
 usps.n3 vocab ala:
 
  {
 ?WHO d:category [ is :targetCategory of :report ];
 d:first_name ?FN; d:last_name ?LN;
 d:addresses [ r:first [
 	 d:street ?STREET;
 	 d:city ?CITY_N;
 	 d:state ?ST;
 	 d:zip ?ZIP_CODE;
 	 ] ].
 (?FN " " ?LN) str:concatenation ?N.
 
 } log:implies
 { [ a p:MailPiece;
 p:recipientName ?N; #@@@
 p:at [
 a p:MailingLocation;
 p:deliveryAddress ?STREET;
 g:inRegion [
 p:cityName ?CITY_N;
 g:inRegion [
 p:stateAbbr ?ST; ] ];
 p:zipCode ?ZIP_CODE ];
 ].
 }.
 
 
 From connolly Mon Dec 20 17:21:59 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:21:59 +0000
 Subject: label printing revisited
 Message-ID: <20041220172159+0000@dm93.org>
 In-Reply-To: <20041220171349+0000@dm93.org>
 
 of course, that was for JobiePrinter. I'm using PescoPrinter now.]]>

BustedFinger

2003-07-10 14:45:13 64.126.64.19 connolly

Busted finger update: pins!.
 A favorite:
 . You can still see the line where he would have cut if the
 closed reduction didn't work.
 
 I now had a splint that I could take off a few times a day for
 exercises.
 
 My next appointment with Dr. K was 11 Mar. He took the pins out -- with a vice grip!
 I felt like a piece of plumbing or something. But... ah... no more splint! I
 can type with 10 fingers again.
 
 Now (**13Mar2003**) it's a question
 of how much range of motion I recover as I do the torture^H^H^H^H therapy.
]]>

Playing VolleyBallInKC in a league at center middle school in Feb 2003, in just the third game, I went up for a block and came down with a BustedFinger .

I could see that the guy was gonna crush the ball, but I was too macho to just let him do it. Or maybe it was just a good game, and I went up for this block as I would any other.

In any case, he did crush the ball, off my block; as is usual, I called "touch!" to let me teammates know to chase the thing down... "and a half!" I added as I realized my left index finger was exploding in pain. I saw the ball was still up, headed for our setter, and I called for it, "gimme that thing!" The setter obliged and I managed to get up and spike it down to win the point before taking myself out of the game and to the E.R.

To pass the time in the E.R., I took some photos with my WearableGizmo .

The x-ray tech let me see the films. The fracture was plain to see, even to the untrained eye. I was glad I didn't take myself to the E.R. for some minor sprain. Then they gave me some ibuprofen and splinted it ("ahh.. much better"). The E.R. doctor referred me to a hand specialist; he was concerned it wouldn't heal right if left alone.

I saw the hand specialist, Dr. K, around 11am the next day. He explained that this was a "challenging injury." If left alone, the muscled and ligaments would push the fractured bone out of place; it would heal, eventually, but I wouldn't be able to bend my finger. He advised doing a reduction , i.e. putting pins in to hold the bones in the right place while they heal. He might be able to do a closed reduction, but if that didn't work out, he'd have to open it up. We scheduled surgery for 5pm. Nothing to eat till then. Good thing I had a snack on the way over!

Rather than a general anesthetic, we agreed on a Bier block , where they basically squeeze most of the blood out of the arm, inject something to numb it, with a turniquet to keep the anesthetic from going elsewhere. So they did all that, plus put in an I.V. in my right arm. But as they started to work on my finger, I said "ouch!" So they turned a knob and said "we'll give you something to make you a little more sleepy..."

"OK, we're done," was the next thing I heard. And it had gone well; no need to open up the finger. I was to come back after a week and he'd take off the surgical bandage and have a look.

I took some more photos at that visit: Busted finger update: pins! . A favorite: pins! . You can still see the line where he would have cut if the closed reduction didn't work.

I now had a splint that I could take off a few times a day for exercises.

My next appointment with Dr. K was 11 Mar. He took the pins out: with a vice grip! I felt like a piece of plumbing or something. But... ah... no more splint! I can type with 10 fingers again.

Now ( 13Mar2003 ) it's a question of how much range of motion I recover as I do the torture^H^H^H^H therapy.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

KidsMac

2004-01-04 02:32:20 64.126.70.13 connolly

Mary got the kids a Mac Performa 575 at a garage sale for $80.

It's acting wierd (Nov 2002). What if I wanted to re-install
the OS?

# requires System 7.1 (with Enabler 065) or later; highest version supported without a PPC upgrade is Mac OS 8.1.
-- "500 Series":http://www.lowendmac.com/500/lc575.shtml

various recommendations about whether 71., 7.5, or 8.x is better on this machine...

grabbed system 7.1 ...

"system 7.1.x":ftp://ftp.ucalgary.ca/pub/micros/mac/system/System_7.1.x/ found via
"mac512 pointers":http://www.mac512.com/ssdl.htm

Burned it on CD ROM from OS X box. Oddly, that didn't work on the Proforma.
But I didn't have the Disk Copy utility there anyway; so I put the CD
in the linux box and did

% dd if=imagefile.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=84 skip=1

(from "a macos faq":http://macfaq.org/software/macos.shtml)

Trying to boot from that disk gave a "you need newer system
software" message.

so I grabbed system 7.5 from somewhere and burned it on CD from
the linux box:

% mkisofs -o /usr/local/bak-cd/macsys7.x.iso -R -J -V 'Mac OS System 7.x' -hfs .

stuck it in the performa, unpacked the 19 parts,
tried it, discovered I needed more disk space, clean up the
disk a little, and then it installed OK.

Still the apps complained about not enough memory, and
the "about this mac" showed the system using all but
about 4MB. One of the game README files said "turn on 32 bit addressing
in the memory control panel" so I did that, and
voila, the problems were gone. It's possible I didn't
need to re-install the system at all.

Hmm... it sure feels odd to not have an ethernet connector
on this machine. "Comm Slot Ethernet Cards":http://www.welovemacs.com/nics-commslot.html
seem to cost about $60 or $70, plus shipping -- probably
more than we paid for the machine itself.
Ah; LC-PDS Ethernet Cards are about half that.

Other stuff I found along the way:

"Apple - Mac OS 8.0/8.1 Support [USA]":http://www.info.apple.com/usen/macos8.1/

"System 7.1 Clean Install":http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~dlindem/apple/7.1install.html

"system 7.0.x download":http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.0.x/

"Mac OS 8: Clean Installation Instructions for Performa Computers":http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22065

Mary got the kids a Mac Performa 575 at a garage sale for $80.

It's acting wierd (Nov 2002). What if I wanted to re-install the OS?

# requires System 7.1 (with Enabler 065) or later; highest version supported without a PPC upgrade is Mac OS 8.1.: 500 Series

various recommendations about whether 71., 7.5, or 8.x is better on this machine...

grabbed system 7.1 ...

system 7.1.x found via mac512 pointers

Burned it on CD ROM from OS X box. Oddly, that didn't work on the Proforma. But I didn't have the Disk Copy utility there anyway; so I put the CD in the linux box and did

% dd if=imagefile.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=84 skip=1

(from a macos faq )

Trying to boot from that disk gave a "you need newer system software" message.

so I grabbed system 7.5 from somewhere and burned it on CD from the linux box:

% mkisofs -o /usr/local/bak-cd/macsys7.x.iso -R -J -V Mac OS System 7.x -hfs .

stuck it in the performa, unpacked the 19 parts, tried it, discovered I needed more disk space, clean up the disk a little, and then it installed OK.

Still the apps complained about not enough memory, and the "about this mac" showed the system using all but about 4MB. One of the game README files said "turn on 32 bit addressing in the memory control panel" so I did that, and voila, the problems were gone. It's possible I didn't need to re-install the system at all.

Hmm... it sure feels odd to not have an ethernet connector on this machine. Comm Slot Ethernet Cards seem to cost about $60 or $70, plus shipping -- probably more than we paid for the machine itself. Ah; LC-PDS Ethernet Cards are about half that.

Other stuff I found along the way:

"Apple - Mac OS 8.0/8.1 Support [USA] ": http://www.info.apple.com/usen/macos8.1/

System 7.1 Clean Install

system 7.0.x download

Mac OS 8: Clean Installation Instructions for Performa Computers

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

VideoPresence

2004-09-14 00:32:47 64.126.89.30 connolly

**13Sep2004**: TravelCheckList ... trying to set up videoconf
from MaJoStudio... the camera keeps shutting itself off.
clue: take the tape out.

**9Sep2004**: got a new laptop, PbJam; took a tour
of the MIT Stata center over iChat.

TimBL and I have gotten it working a few times
(he using netmeeting and I using DebianPackage:gnomemeeting.
I have a Hauppage WinCast/TV that I bought
years ago; the bttv driver seems to work. I think
timbl uses a Hauppage bttv under windows.)

I'm InTheMarket for a USB video camera that works with linux.
I keep finding cheap ones (<$50) at bestbuy and such,
buying them, trying them out, and losing.

Technologies I've learned about during my search:

* usb, hotplug

* video4linux

* Philips USB webcams. Hmm... Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 is endorsed by the developer (as well as cnet etc.)

* qce-ga stuff":http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/

**3Jun2004**: DebianPackage:openmcu from the OpenH323 project...

Description:

H.323 conferencing server
OpenH323 console interactive conferencing server that allows two
or more people using a H.323 client to talk to each other in chat
rooms. The server mixes the sound coming from all participants and
splits the image so that up to 4 of them can be seen.

**5Feb2004**: iChat talks to AIM,
says slashdot. gotta check it out.

**29Nov2003**: got a quickcam express at Micro Center for $49.99
(UPACode 097855011985). Thought
it was the same one Gerald reported to work well. Trying it with mod_quickcam
crashed DirkMachine hard! Turns out the USB ID is 0x46d/0x870. **Argh**!
This is the quickcam for notebooks! Closer inspection of the Micro Center
receipt reveals "REV2". Sigh... there ought to be a law about hardware
interfaces, kinda like ingredients and nutrition info on food labels.

returned it for a qc 4000.

software for it

**3Dec**: ok, got a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000.
UPACode 097855014597. UsbId 046d:08b2

modprobe pwc looks good...

Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.3 loaded.
Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro and the Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30.
Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam

hmm... which device?

searching for "pwc hotplug" finds a page
that recommends camstream... apt-cach search... yup, DebianPackage:camstream.

aha... support for the quickcam 4000 was added 2002-10-05 in version 8.8 of PWC. upgraded
SonyVaioJammer kernel to 2.4.22 or some such, and bingo, that has pwc v8.10.

**23Jun2003** ooh... iSight

**21Dec2002**: picked up a Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks at the local CompUSA.
UPACode: 097P55014634

usb:
Vendor Id: 046d
Product Id: 0870

I was able to confirm linux support right in the store using my new WearableGizmo.
yeah pocket google!

Now let's see if it works...

not out of the box...

Dec 21 20:40:37 dirk kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0x870) is not claimed by any active driver.

aha... now we're jammin... a simple "modprobe pwc" gives... Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.3 loaded.
Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro and the Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30.
Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam

let's try gnomemeeting... no, I don't see it as another video device.

Hmm... "2002-12-16: PWC 8.10 is out; there are 2 fixes (including the name of the QuickCam Notebook webcam"
hmm... need kernel 2.4.20, but I'm using a custom kernel for win4lin. well, this thing is for the
SonyVaioJammer anyway...

No, pwc is the wrong driver. "this vendor and device id is claimed by mod_quickcam
that is the qce-ga driver" -- 27 Sep.
Trying DebanPackage:qce-source with DebinaPackage:kernel-source-2.4.20 and DebianPackage:kernel-image-2.4.20-686

Hmmm
Xirlink Stingray PC camera (VEO) for $9.99 after rebate
at BestBuy, **9Dec2001**. "support details for linux":http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/#VeoStingray_Note
look promising! Oops... bad news: (a) it doesn't really work,
and (b) the linux driver is reverse-engineered, not written
from Mfg specs.

**19Dec**: turns out it doesn't really work. Bummer. It sorta works under linux...
but I'm not likely to invest in getting it working becaus (a) the driver
is reverse-engineered, not based on docs from the manufacturer, and
(b) even under windows where it works as designed, it's really slow
(just a few frames per second). Perhaps USB video is just not workable?

This sounds cool:

* "How to video/telephone conference over the internet using a Linux PC":http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~kgs20/VideoConferencing.html
last modified Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:08:19 GMT.

* "Example Linux VRVS installation":http://www.ipp.mpg.de/~Wolfgang.Suttrop/computers/vic.html
dc:date "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:15:37 GMT".

[@@see: telagent, favorite telcon gizmo]

(19 December) Ian: I am interested in this phone/PDA with keyboard -
"handspring treo":http://www.handspring.com/products/communicators/index.jhtml;jsessionid=PGQVM1FTHXVYNQFIAE1CFFOAVAATKIV0?prod_cat_name=Communicators available Jan 2002

I bought a "Quickcam Express USB":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001U0AJ/geraldoskoboiny from a local store for ~$50 USD, seems to work fairly well with Linux using "qce-ga stuff":http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/. -- Gerald

]]>

I'd like to be able to see my kids when I call home from travelling. I'd like to get the cousins together by video link.

13Sep2004 : TravelCheckList ... trying to set up videoconf from MaJoStudio ... the camera keeps shutting itself off. clue : take the tape out.

9Sep2004 : got a new laptop, PbJam ; took a tour of the MIT Stata center over iChat.

TimBL and I have gotten it working a few times (he using netmeeting and I using DebianPackage:gnomemeeting. I have a Hauppage WinCast /TV that I bought years ago; the bttv driver seems to work. I think timbl uses a Hauppage bttv under windows.)

I'm InTheMarket

Technologies I've learned about during my search:

usb, hotplug
video4linux
Philips USB webcams . Hmm... Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 is endorsed by the developer (as well as cnet etc.)
qce-ga stuff": http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/

3Jun2004 : DebianPackage:openmcu from the OpenH323 project ...

Description:

H.323 conferencing server OpenH323 console interactive conferencing server that allows two or more people using a H.323 client to talk to each other in chat rooms. The server mixes the sound coming from all participants and splits the image so that up to 4 of them can be seen.

5Feb2004 : iChat talks to AIM , says slashdot. gotta check it out.

29Nov2003 : got a quickcam express at Micro Center for $49.99 ( UPACode 097855011985). Thought it was the same one Gerald reported to work well. Trying it with mod_quickcam crashed DirkMachine hard! Turns out the USB ID is 0x46d/0x870. Argh ! This is the quickcam for notebooks! Closer inspection of the Micro Center receipt reveals "REV2". Sigh... there ought to be a law about hardware interfaces, kinda like ingredients and nutrition info on food labels.

returned it for a qc 4000 .

software for it

3Dec : ok, got a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000. UPACode 097855014597. UsbId 046d:08b2

modprobe pwc looks good...

Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.3 loaded. Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro and the Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30. Dec 3 21:22:06 dirk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam

hmm... which device?

searching for "pwc hotplug" finds a page that recommends camstream... apt-cach search... yup, DebianPackage:camstream.

aha... support for the quickcam 4000 was added 2002-10-05 in version 8.8 of PWC. upgraded SonyVaioJammer kernel to 2.4.22 or some such, and bingo, that has pwc v8.10.

23Jun2003 ooh... iSight

21Dec2002 : picked up a Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks at the local CompUSA . UPACode : 097P55014634

usb: Vendor Id: 046d Product Id: 0870

I was able to confirm linux support right in the store using my new WearableGizmo . yeah pocket google!

Now let's see if it works...

not out of the box...

Dec 21 20:40:37 dirk kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0x870) is not claimed by any active driver.

aha... now we're jammin... a simple "modprobe pwc" gives...

 Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 + PCVC675/680/690 + PCVC730/740/750 webcam module version 8.3 loaded.
 Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, Logitech Quickcam 3000 Pro and the Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30.
 Dec 21 20:52:43 dirk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam

let's try gnomemeeting... no, I don't see it as another video device.

Hmm... "2002-12-16: PWC 8.10 is out; there are 2 fixes (including the name of the QuickCam Notebook webcam" hmm... need kernel 2.4.20, but I'm using a custom kernel for win4lin. well, this thing is for the SonyVaioJammer anyway...

No, pwc is the wrong driver. "this vendor and device id is claimed by mod_quickcam that is the qce-ga driver" -- 27 Sep . Trying DebanPackage:qce-source with DebinaPackage:kernel-source-2.4.20 and DebianPackage:kernel-image-2.4.20-686

Hmmm Xirlink Stingray PC camera (VEO) for $9.99 after rebate at BestBuy , 9Dec2001 . support details for linux look promising! Oops... bad news: (a) it doesn't really work, and (b) the linux driver is reverse-engineered, not written from Mfg specs.

19Dec : turns out it doesn't really work. Bummer. It sorta works under linux... but I'm not likely to invest in getting it working becaus (a) the driver is reverse-engineered, not based on docs from the manufacturer, and (b) even under windows where it works as designed, it's really slow (just a few frames per second). Perhaps USB video is just not workable?

This sounds cool:

How to video/telephone conference over the internet using a Linux PC last modified Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:08:19 GMT.
Example Linux VRVS installation dc:date "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:15:37 GMT".

[@@see: telagent, favorite telcon gizmo]

(19 December) Ian: I am interested in this phone/PDA with keyboard - handspring treo available Jan 2002

I bought a Quickcam Express USB from a local store for ~$50 USD, seems to work fairly well with Linux using qce-ga stuff .: Gerald

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

2005-05-17 02:28:56 64.126.89.30 connolly

hardly an original idea, sorry;
chuckle).
I play guitar, but not all that well; I'm most comfortable with
just your basic three chords. As to the truth... since I was little, singing
and praying have never been entirely separate things to me.
(See also ScriptureNotes, ShareLifeThruArt)

I've been playing a Sigma DM-5S (reviews) since
I was a teenager; it has a Quigley 100th anniversary sticker
inside. George helped my mom pick it out for me.

While I was at Convex, I picked up a 12-string guitar from a co-worker.
The Alvarez 5021 reviews
make me glad I did. Too bad AA crunched the case. Oh well.

**2Nov2004**: from CivicDuty noodling... Common Dreams is running
an article, The Future is Blowing in the Wind,
which, of course, is a play on
Blowing in the wind by Bob dylan

**31May2004**: after upgrading DirkMachine to kernel 2.6, I entered the world of
the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).
The AlsaOpensrcOrg wiki looks handy; I intend to
contribute there a bit. Here are some magic prayers I learned today:

* ecamegapedal alsahw,2,0 alsahw,0,0 -- runs a guitar pedal simulator with input from alsa input 2, i.e. my iMic via usb-audio, with output to the built-in soundcard. LFactor recommends using the iMic for audio output, as its specs are superior to the built-in Ensoniq. creox was also recommended; it's jack-happy; but I have not tried it yet.

* jack_connect alsa_pcm:capture_2 alsa_pcm:playback_1 -- connects guitar to computer speakers via jack. I think; I'm not sure I got this working; the motivation was use with jack-rack, but I never figured that out. jack_lsp lists ports. qjackctl is a qt gui for connecting them.

* ecasound -t10 -i alsahw,2,0 -o imic.ogg -- records guitar sound to an .ogg file

* jackd -d alsa -- start the jack audio connector. (LFactor recommended jackstart -R -d alsa -d usb-audio -P -r 48000 -p64 --softmode -n3 -- but I didn't manage to get that working)

* alsaplayer -o jack imic.ogg -- plays it back thru jack

* qsynth -- GUI front end to fluidsynth, a software MIDI synthesizer. PC51f sound font from Soundfonts for Linux by personalcopy.

* aconnect 72:0 128:0 -- connect usb midi input to sound synthesizer (numbers vary; use aconnect -i -o to list them)

freepats -- free patch set for MIDI audio synthesis

**26Feb2004**: speaking of crunched cases... am I crazy enough to try bringing a guitar
on a plane again? (cf TravelCheckList) Not my new Alvarez, but maybe my old Ibanez Les Paul copy?
I think so... here's hoping for an InstantGig.

**Feb2004**:

The pick-up I use to plug my six-string in for worship band broke. I looked at getting a
fishman or
something. The guys at Quigley said it would run me about $200 installed. With a little
extra money burning a hold in my pocket from the keyboard sale, and some encouragement from
Bruce, I looked into picking up another guitar. I couldn't pass up this
Alvarez RD20SC at $279.99 with free shipping.

Assuming it's a good guitar, I won't really have a need for my Sigma any more.
But... can I bring myself to sell a guitar I've had since I was 13?

**17Feb2004**: Looked up my redeemer lives.

**15Feb2004**: midikeys looks
like just what the doctor ordered, while waiting for the USB/MIDI keyboard. Yup. Works pretty good.

**5Feb2004**: DebianPackage:mma looks interesting (from DWN).

got GarageBand installed, got guitar cable adapter... DARN! no audio line in on this older iMac!
Griffin iMic
$35 at compusa (913) 345-0793.
UPACode 685387020201. Part No. T3041LL/A (C39).

Recoton 1/4 to 1/8 adapter... UPACode 044102115217 for a few bucks at best buy.

**9Jan2004**: selling a Rhodes stage piano to get into Apple's GarageBand. Woohoo! Got $700 for it! Now what shall I do with this money burning a hole in my pocket? The apple USB keyboard looks really cool, but it doesn't have very many keys... and I wonder if I really want a midi keyboard. Ah...
tips just for me.

**25Oct2003**: Brennan wrote a song today, clearly inspired by all the pokemon battles he wages on the gameboy. I transcribed
an ABC version until he was happy with the midi rendition of it,
and I printed sheet music
(giveit.ps
giveit.pdf).

Of course, Kyle wanted to play along. He wrote a song of his own.

Tech notes: DebianLinuxJustWorks: I used DebianPackage:timidity to play midi files, and DebianPackage:gnome-gv to view postscript files,
DebianPackage:abcmidi to convert ABC files to midi, and DebianPackage:abc2ps to convert them to printed sheet music. ToDo: try out DebianPackage:abcm2ps from **13Jan2004** weekly news.

**24Nov2002**:
abc/songvert notes,
songvert,

ToDo: @@more to say about...

George R.
Rudy

Quigley

Sigma guitar

Glory and Praise. 9:15 mass

Be my Center

photo credit: Aaron Swartz.

From connolly Tue Nov 9 06:58:39 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 06:58:39 +0000
Subject: Good stuff from 22 Apr 2001
Message-ID: <20041109065839+0000@dm93.org>

at GF: He is Lord, Spirit of the living god,
fall a fresh on me. (refactoring ScriptureNotes)

From connolly Thu Dec 30 09:01:50 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:01:50 +0000
Subject: Len, I'm jealous
Message-ID: <20041230090150+0000@dm93.org>

... or is that envious? Where's the usage board when you need them. No matter...
Just when I thought I had my head above water w.r.t the ChristmasCardRitual --
I got over a dozen cards out *before* Christmas --
Len B records
three songs as his holiday greeting. Wow!

From connolly Sun Jan 16 06:41:46 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:41:46 +0000
Subject: praise and worship archive
Message-ID: <20050116064146+0000@dm93.org>

I'm playing tomorrow, and I'm missing music for a few of the songs... went googling, found pwarchive. Hmm... we have a CCLI license, no? Gotta look into that.

From connolly Sun Mar 20 14:40:17 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:40:17 +0000
Subject: new hope music
Message-ID: <20050320144017+0000@dm93.org>

Went looking for children's worship songs; found new hope music with lyrics, chords, PDF sheet music, midi, mp3. Original stuff with liberal copyright license.

From connolly Tue May 17 02:02:08 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 02:02:08 +0000
Subject: shopping for a digital piano
Message-ID: <20050517020208+0000@dm93.org>

We finally got to the top of the waiting list for Karen, gal from church that teaches piano. Kyle seems willing to actually do the practicing between lessons, too, so we're InTheMarket for a piano. There might be one available for around $700. We don't really have extra cash, but that might be a good enough deal that we should act on it.

Last weekend, We saw a Casion PX400 Digital Piano system at sams for $649; it includes stuff like a bench and a microphone. The USB connection is interesting. It didn't feel like a must-do deal; I wanted to check music123 prices on digital pianos first, since they couldn't be beat on guitar prices a year or so ago.

Mary found a guy selling an Adagio DDP8834D for $1000. No, that's not a deal we can't pass up.
]]>

If I were gonna start a band, I think this is what I'd call it. ( hardly an original idea, sorry ; chuckle ). I play guitar, but not all that well; I'm most comfortable with just your basic three chords. As to the truth... since I was little, singing and praying have never been entirely separate things to me. (See also ScriptureNotes , ShareLifeThruArt )

me on guitar I've been playing a Sigma DM-5S ( reviews ) since I was a teenager; it has a Quigley 100th anniversary sticker inside. George helped my mom pick it out for me.

While I was at Convex, I picked up a 12-string guitar from a co-worker. The Alvarez 5021 reviews make me glad I did. Too bad AA crunched the case. Oh well.

2Nov2004 : from CivicDuty noodling... Common Dreams is running an article, The Future is Blowing in the Wind , which, of course, is a play on Blowing in the wind by Bob dylan

31May2004 : after upgrading DirkMachine to kernel 2.6, I entered the world of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) . The AlsaOpensrcOrg wiki looks handy; I intend to contribute there a bit. Here are some magic prayers I learned today:

ecamegapedal alsahw,2,0 alsahw,0,0 -- runs a guitar pedal simulator with input from alsa input 2, i.e. my iMic via usb-audio, with output to the built-in soundcard. LFactor recommends using the iMic for audio output, as its specs are superior to the built-in Ensoniq. creox was also recommended; it's jack-happy; but I have not tried it yet.
jack_connect alsa_pcm:capture_2 alsa_pcm:playback_1 -- connects guitar to computer speakers via jack. I think; I'm not sure I got this working; the motivation was use with jack-rack, but I never figured that out. jack_lsp lists ports. qjackctl is a qt gui for connecting them.
ecasound -t10 -i alsahw,2,0 -o imic.ogg -- records guitar sound to an .ogg file
jackd -d alsa -- start the jack audio connector. ( LFactor recommended jackstart -R -d alsa -d usb-audio -P -r 48000 -p64 --softmode -n3 -- but I didn't manage to get that working)
alsaplayer -o jack imic.ogg -- plays it back thru jack
qsynth -- GUI front end to fluidsynth, a software MIDI synthesizer. PC51f sound font from Soundfonts for Linux by personalcopy .
aconnect 72:0 128:0 -- connect usb midi input to sound synthesizer (numbers vary; use aconnect -i -o to list them)

freepats: free patch set for MIDI audio synthesis

26Feb2004 : speaking of crunched cases... am I crazy enough to try bringing a guitar on a plane again? (cf TravelCheckList ) Not my new Alvarez, but maybe my old Ibanez Les Paul copy? I think so... here's hoping for an InstantGig .

Feb2004 :

The pick-up I use to plug my six-string in for worship band broke. I looked at getting a fishman or something. The guys at Quigley said it would run me about $200 installed. With a little extra money burning a hold in my pocket from the keyboard sale, and some encouragement from Bruce, I looked into picking up another guitar. I couldn't pass up this Alvarez RD20SC at $279.99 with free shipping.

Assuming it's a good guitar, I won't really have a need for my Sigma any more. But... can I bring myself to sell a guitar I've had since I was 13?

17Feb2004 : Looked up my redeemer lives .

15Feb2004 : midikeys looks like just what the doctor ordered, while waiting for the USB/MIDI keyboard. Yup. Works pretty good.

5Feb2004 : DebianPackage:mma looks interesting (from DWN).

got GarageBand installed, got guitar cable adapter... DARN! no audio line in on this older iMac! Griffin iMic $35 at compusa (913) 345-0793. UPACode 685387020201. Part No. T3041LL/A (C39).

Recoton 1/4 to 1/8 adapter... UPACode 044102115217 for a few bucks at best buy.

9Jan2004 : selling a Rhodes stage piano to get into Apple's GarageBand . Woohoo! Got $700 for it! Now what shall I do with this money burning a hole in my pocket? The apple USB keyboard looks really cool, but it doesn't have very many keys... and I wonder if I really want a midi keyboard. Ah... tips just for me.

25Oct2003 : Brennan wrote a song today, clearly inspired by all the pokemon battles he wages on the gameboy. I transcribed an ABC version until he was happy with the midi rendition of it, and I printed sheet music ( giveit.ps giveit.pdf ).

Of course, Kyle wanted to play along. He wrote a song of his own .

Tech notes: DebianLinuxJustWorks : I used DebianPackage:timidity to play midi files, and DebianPackage:gnome-gv to view postscript files, DebianPackage:abcmidi to convert ABC files to midi, and DebianPackage:abc2ps to convert them to printed sheet music. ToDo : try out DebianPackage:abcm2ps from 13Jan2004 weekly news.

24Nov2002 : abc/songvert notes , songvert ,

ToDo : @@more to say about...

George R. Rudy

Quigley

Sigma guitar

Glory and Praise. 9:15 mass

Be my Center

photo credit: Aaron Swartz . ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

Good stuff from 22 Apr 2001 --connolly, Tue, 09 Nov 2004 06:58:39 +0000 reply

at GF: He is Lord, Spirit of the living god, fall a fresh on me. (refactoring ScriptureNotes )

Len, I'm jealous --connolly, Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:01:50 +0000 reply

... or is that envious? Where's the usage board when you need them. No matter... Just when I thought I had my head above water w.r.t the ChristmasCardRitual -- I got over a dozen cards out before Christmas -- Len B records three songs as his holiday greeting. Wow!

praise and worship archive --connolly, Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:41:46 +0000 reply

I'm playing tomorrow, and I'm missing music for a few of the songs... went googling, found pwarchive . Hmm... we have a CCLI license, no? Gotta look into that.

new hope music --connolly, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:40:17 +0000 reply

Went looking for children's worship songs; found new hope music with lyrics, chords, PDF sheet music, midi, mp3. Original stuff with liberal copyright license.

shopping for a digital piano --connolly, Tue, 17 May 2005 02:02:08 +0000 reply

We finally got to the top of the waiting list for Karen, gal from church that teaches piano. Kyle seems willing to actually do the practicing between lessons, too, so we're InTheMarket for a piano. There might be one available for around $700. We don't really have extra cash, but that might be a good enough deal that we should act on it.

Last weekend, We saw a Casion PX400 Digital Piano system at sams for $649 ; it includes stuff like a bench and a microphone. The USB connection is interesting. It didn't feel like a must-do deal; I wanted to check music123 prices on digital pianos first, since they couldn't be beat on guitar prices a year or so ago.

Mary found a guy selling an Adagio DDP8834D for $1000. No, that's not a deal we can't pass up.

PerfectOffice

2005-05-16 01:22:02 64.126.89.30 connolly

advogato is my
 guild. (see also/refactor: FriendOfDanConnolly).
 Our trade rag is "Slashdot":http://slashdot.org/ (also: light. hmm... does anything else suck less? quit slashdot article seems interesting.
 Yes, now that I think about it, the most interesting slashdot articles tend to be pointers to
 Ars Technica articles).
 (ToDo... RSS aggregate of regular reading materials?)
 
 Mostly, DebianLinuxJustWorks... better with
 each issue of the
 Debian weekly news... but when it comes
 to ease of use and media integration, one
 has to wonder... ToMacOrNotToMac (also: StudentOfMacOsX, FilmKiller, PaperlessOffice).
 
 Creature comforts are important. A FlatPanelDisplay is a
 huge quality-of-life win. (hmm... WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns).
 
 And like the cabinet maker's shop, the PerfectOffice has a
 certain amount of money going in and out; we hope
 for a FractalAccounting system for keeping track of it.
 
 
**Aug2004**: is the chair in the PerfectOffice a balance ball?
 
 
**11Feb2004**: The Kitchenputer... go kbob!
 I hope it works; I want one too.
 
 
 [http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/index.html OSHA Ergonomic Solutions: Computer Workstations eTool - Index for Computer Workstations]
 
 
 **16Apr2003**: met mattb, author of Making a silent, tiny, diskless PC. want one!
 
 
 "KCLUG":http://www.kclug.org/index.shtml (went to **5 Sep** meeting) "KCLUG archive":http://www.kclug.org/archive.php?l=kclug
 
 
 
 also: "older (2001) perfect office notes":http://dm93.org/site_index/y2001/po23
 
 
 
 Create your own blog 
 
 
 From connolly Sun Nov 28 00:19:13 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:19:13 +0000
 Subject: $100 silent PC
 Message-ID: <20041128001913+0000@dm93.org>
 
 want one. SolarLiteslashdot story
 
 From connolly Fri Dec 17 06:10:49 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:10:49 +0000
 Subject: iCal vs Zope permissions
 Message-ID: <20041217061049+0000@dm93.org>
 
 Spent a whole evening figuring out why iCal wouldn't publish to this Zope server.
 Turns out to be a Zope bug: issue 1626.
 Odd thing is, the broken code seems to have been there since 2001, but
 an Aug 2003
 message says it "just works". 
 
 From connolly Mon May 16 01:12:00 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:12:00 +0000
 Subject: writing all over the web
 Message-ID: <20050516011200+0000@dm93.org>
 
 let's see... in addition to here and at work
 (including notes in the esw wiki), I have been keeping an advogato diary for a while and my del.icio.us bookmarks pretty regularly lately. My WearableGizmo is sync'd with my t-mobile/danger account. I invested a bit of time in building a list of blogs at bloglines.
 I just put some non-trivial stuff in my flickr account.
 
 I back up the t-mobile data fairly regularly using the XMLRPC interface. delicious has a "give me all my data" API and I tried it out once, so I'm confident I could do it any time I like. I wonder if there's any reason to back up my advogato diary... if that community goes bust, will I want my notes? Yes, I suppose so.]]>

PileOfOwnersManuals

2004-11-03 21:56:59 64.126.89.30 connolly

**29May2004** microwave on the fritz; called GE and described
the symptoms and I think the rough diagnosis was "magnetron is hosed".
That agrees with appliance aid info on GE microwaves,
which refers to magnetron and stirrer kit.

May 2003: MGM HT-3D.
hmm... CoolestBasement.

"DVD Player Owner's manual" for a
"Mintek DVD-1600":http://www.mintekdigital.com/products/dvd1600.htm purchased 19July2002 from BestBuy.

reviews and compatibility notes

Yikes! First the DVD player and the VCR, now our TV has gone out.
nearby TV repair places

can't figure out how to use this McCulloch Power Mac 6 chainsaw.

40:1 is 3.2oz to the gal, per "one of their manuals":http://www.mccullochpower.com/manuals/chain_g/gas_chain_ms_um.pdf

"McCulloch customer service":http://www.mccullochmotors.com/powerretail/service.asp 1-800-521-8559

"In 1968, McCulloch introduced the Power Mac 6; weighing only 8.5 pounds fully fueled; it was the world's lightest chain saw. "
-- "McCulloch Corporation - Company History":http://www.mccullochpower.com/history.htm

Village Small Engine

8455 W. 95th St.

Overland Park, KS 66212

Phone: (913) 341-4055

map

How Chainsaws Work

Jun 2002: problem with "Mintek DVD 2110":http://www.mintekdigital.com/products/dvd2110.html

door won't open, etc.

"support page":http://www.mintekdigital.com/support/ says:
Phone: 866-709-9500 (Toll Free)
E-mail: techsupport@mintekdigital.com

replaced it July 2002.

May 2002: Sylvania SSC092 9" TV-VCR combo.
UPACode: 053818631201.
Serial No. V09238608

customer support: tel:+1-800-968-3429

On 26 Jan 2002, I'm setting up this new hoop the boys
got for christmas. UPACode: 081483093017

On the package and the manual there's a link to "Lifetime Products":http://www.lifetime.com/

It's a Shoot Case. Manual says model #9300/9301. I don't see it in the web site.
"Customer service":http://www.lifetime.com/basketball/customerservice.htm
contact info subsumes the contact info on the manual.

Hmm... online "product registration":http://www.lifetime.com/registration.htm
I wonder if that has any benefits, or if it's just a spam trap.

For fun, here are some "photos of the boys playing with the Shoot Case":http://dm93.org/y2002/0201bball/MAVICA.HTM .
Hmm... uploading those was a pain. Not exactly a FilmKiller yet.

From connolly Wed Nov 3 21:56:59 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:56:59 +0000
Subject: refrigerator registration
Message-ID: <20041103215659+0000@dm93.org>

Registration card that came with our new fridge offers GE Appliances as an option.]]>

In one of our kitchen cupboards, we have a pile of owners manuals.

Maybe it'll be easier to find stuff in this scratchpad than in that pile.

29May2004 microwave on the fritz; called GE and described the symptoms and I think the rough diagnosis was "magnetron is hosed". That agrees with appliance aid info on GE microwaves , which refers to magnetron and stirrer kit .

May 2003: MGM HT-3D . hmm... CoolestBasement .

"DVD Player Owner's manual" for a Mintek DVD-1600 purchased 19July2002 from BestBuy .

reviews and compatibility notes

Yikes! First the DVD player and the VCR, now our TV has gone out. nearby TV repair places

can't figure out how to use this McCulloch Power Mac 6 chainsaw.

40:1 is 3.2oz to the gal, per one of their manuals

McCulloch customer service 1-800-521-8559

"In 1968, McCulloch introduced the Power Mac 6; weighing only 8.5 pounds fully fueled; it was the world's lightest chain saw. ": McCulloch Corporation - Company History

Village Small Engine

8455 W. 95th St.

Overland Park, KS 66212

Phone: (913) 341-4055

map

How Chainsaws Work

Jun 2002: problem with Mintek DVD 2110

door won't open, etc.

support page says: Phone: 866-709-9500 (Toll Free) E-mail: techsupport @ mintekdigital.com

replaced it July 2002.

May 2002: Sylvania SSC092 9" TV-VCR combo. UPACode : 053818631201. Serial No. V09238608

customer support: tel:+1-800-968-3429

On 26 Jan 2002, I'm setting up this new hoop the boys got for christmas. UPACode : 081483093017

On the package and the manual there's a link to Lifetime Products

It's a Shoot Case. Manual says model #9300/9301. I don't see it in the web site. Customer service contact info subsumes the contact info on the manual.

Hmm... online product registration I wonder if that has any benefits, or if it's just a spam trap.

For fun, here are some photos of the boys playing with the Shoot Case . Hmm... uploading those was a pain. Not exactly a FilmKiller yet.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

refrigerator registration --connolly, Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:56:59 +0000 reply

Registration card that came with our new fridge offers GE Appliances as an option.

DebianLinuxJustWorks

2004-08-29 22:26:26 64.126.89.30 connolly

debian weekly news,
#debian IRC channel,
#debian channel info,
@@howto docs, debian universe book.

**Aug2004**: UserLinux... interesting.

from ESemWeb:DanConnolly

How to install sarge with the new debian-installer (sandro)

Index of /debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/20040102/images

**May2004**: Debian From Scratch (DFS). way cool.
bootable CD with kernel 2.6 and lots of recovery and installation tools. The built-in CD burning gizmo
in nautilus actually worked!

**8Apr2004**: DPL election... I like Martin Michlmayr's Platform.
He's close to the new maintainers, which is how the community perpetuates itself. His goal of working with companies
on a hardware database is one I share (@@where did I write about that?).

**25Mar2004**: tried to get the new keyboard working on the DirkMachine. lost.
see QandA in the debian wiki
and a rdfig chumplog entry.

**4Feb2004**: DWN notes filelight;
interestingly similar to diskchart.py

synaptic article

**4Nov2003**: my usual apt-get install of galeon resulted
in hundreds of updated package. It seems gnome 2.4
has hit debian sid. I concur with the ars technical review:
"The end result is a pleasant desktop that is nimble, attractive and unobtrusive. While it's not perfect, the foundation is now there and the overall product has matured."

My setup:

* DebianPackage:galeon (now that DebianBug:185687 is fixed). (**5May2004**: trying out DebianPackage:mozilla-firefox. Ouch: DebianBug:238597 hurts) **3May2003**: wow... knoppix is really cool; maybe I'll try DebianPackage:konqueror... (DebianPackage:epiphany-browser doesn't do smart bookmarks, which I rely on for google and work people search). Hmm... BrowserChecklist. Dealing with new mime types is a pain. DebianBug:188991 seems to cover it.

* DebianPackage:evolution love the search/view integration. various glitches in IMAP support or something, though. upgrade to 1.4-ish version resulted in DebianBug:197175; the corresponding ximian bug seems to be fixed.

* DebianPackage:xchat still hoping for irc: URI support. ESW:ChannelsAreResourcesToo

* DebianPackage:gnome

* DebianPackage:metacity *can't figure out how to tell gnome to use this rather than sawfish; I have to do killall sawfish && metacity & every time I start up*

* DebianPackage:ssh esp ssh-agent

* DebianPackage:xcdroast for burning CDs.

* DebianPackage:gnumeric for filing expense reports

**Dec2001**: I tried to stick to just main, but oddly, ntpdate is in non-US (as is ssh, less surprisingly). And acroread is in non-free.

GnomeTweaks: "Hooking evo into menu panel?":http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2002-January/016205.html
David Hoover karma@deadmoose.com
03 Jan 2002 16:41:35 -0800

some notes: OpenOfficeInstall

**Nov2003**: trying out new debian installer, using etherboot.
wiki instructions,
found from Debian Weekly News - November 18th, 2003.

hmm... DebianPackage:lvm10, LVM howto...
SFS: one for ConfidentialityVersusAvailability

**9Jul2003**: still working on integrating this usb flash disk...
USB automounting
article is helpful... I had to edit {{{/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap}}} by
hand to fix...

Jul 9 09:22:09 dirk usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product ea0/6803/100

Is there some linux USB database I can contribute this knowledge to?

PQI downloads
has the Win98 driver for this USB travelling Disk.

**Aug2003**: downloaded rettcd.iso (from dwn).

**2May2003**: knoppix rocks! so does DebianPackage:bittorrent.

$ btdownloadgui --url http://f.scarywater.net/KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-28-EN.torrent

I had a little trouble with cdrecord, so I apt-get updated,
and I saw that DebianPackage:cdrecord recommends
DebianPackage:xcdroast; following that recommendation paid off.
Works great!

So I burned a knoppix CD and stuck it in my kids games PC.
Wow! the splash screen is cool ;-) Playing the demo .ogg
music just worked.
Quicktime just worked. Reading MS write files just worked.
Running .exe's with wine didn't just work, though.
I'm hoping power management just works.

**16Mar2003**: hmm... why doesn't the clock in the gnome panel update when
I do tzconfig? DebianPackage:gnome-system-tools seems to be the supported
way to change timezones in gnome. Bummer my SonyVaioJammer is kinda out of
sync with the latest stuff, but I'm not going to sync up because I did
it on DirkMachine and for some reason Amaya won't run since then.

**Jan 2003**: I'm in flux.
PerfectBrowser? no, the perfect web user agent is an editor too...
: I like galeon for so many things (smart bookmarks
for google search, pop-up defense) but it doesn't grok editing. I like
Amay's XHTML support, hyperlink editing, structure support, etc.
but it can only edit public Zope pages; there's a bug somewhere
in editing confidential pages. Mozilla composer doesn't really grok
structure nor link editing nor XHTML, but it gets along with Zope
for confidential pages. So my history and password vault and
bookmarks are spread acrosss N web user agents. Not to mention
when I upgraded evolution it somehow lost the connection to
galeon as my default browser. Argh!

**Oct 2002**: Nifty article "Debian GNU/Linux: The Past, the Present and the Future":http://u-os.org/tokyo/
from "Oct 29 debian weekly news":http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/42/.

**Jan 9, 2002**

building a patched kernel seems to work. For one
thing, the debian kernel-image package is made
from unpatched kernel sources, so I could have
just grabbed the .config from /boot of the
installed kernel.

I discovered that the kernel-image-2.4 source
package is mostly about building kernels
for different processors etc.

DebianPackage:fakeroot is interesting.
Here's what I actually used:

$ make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --bzimage --initrd --revision=dm93v7 kernel_image

and it works. The initrd stuff is pretty fiddly.

**Dec 2001**:
"linux.com poll on how/why folks switched to linux":http://www.linux.com/polls/index.phtml
How did you first hear about Linux?
December 2nd, 2001

**Dec 10, 2001**

ugh... CD recording under linux isn't so nice.
I got a shiny new acer 40x read 20x write 10x rewrite
CD-RW drive. I was able to burn CDs under Win2k
without reading any directions.

Under linux, I see (form "an article":http://www.nber.org/cdrecord.html )
that I need the ide-scsi module. I don't have it.

You'd think that linux kernel modules were modular and
I could just build the one driver and load it.
But no, the debian make-kpkg stuff seems to screw
with the build process so that I can't just go to
the relevant directory and say:

make ide-scsi.o

as I'd expect. Sigh.

**Dec 11**

Well, after fidgeting with kernel building for a while,
it does work.

I looked at several GUI tools (kreatecd, gcombust)
but none of them was any easier than the command-line tools:

# mkisofs -r -J -o /mnt/veg0109/dm93qdata.iso dm93qdata/
# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=12 /mnt/veg0109/dm93qdata.iso

note the speed=12. Very nice!

**Nov2000**
tried corel linux (purchased 19Nov2000 from Microcenter); support wasn't as good as free
debian, so why bother?

**when?**
trying a new take on java-on-debian tonight... the blackdown
stuff seems up to snuff on Java2.

added this to my /etc/apt/sources.list:

# blackdown java
deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody non-free

need DebianPackage:libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1
to avoid:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jre1.3.1_03/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

**when?**
As a StudentOfMacOsX, I like their volume naming... when I stick a CD in the drive, I'd like its name
to show up under /vol or whatever.

Ugh... but I don't like $129 price tag for new major versions.
]]>

DirkMachine

2005-05-13 17:32:19 64.126.89.30 connolly

Powerspec PS8420.
DebianLinuxJustWorks, for this hardware, for the most part; I use see also: WinFourLinOnDebian to run quicken.

Some detail:

* Processor: 1.7GHz pentium 4.

* System Board: Gigabyte GA-8IDML.

* Memory: 1GB. (after .5GB upgrade)

* disk controller: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12). (per lspci)

* Sound: Creative CT5880 (alsa driver: snd-ens1371; oss driver module: es1371). See also: ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

* (the 10/100 eth adapter got zapped by lightning)

* LAN: D-Link RealTek RTL8139 card.

* Video: nvidia GeForce2; drivers from nvidia support 3d acceleration (XF86Config-4. nvidia-howto test: DebianPackage:tuxracer. ). VGA cable extender from closet to desktop. see FlatPanelDisplay.

* Disks:

* WDC WD600AB-00CDB0 60GB

* Maxtor 53073H4 older 30GB disk, purchased 19Nov2000 from Micro Center

* I use DebianPackage:lvm2 and reiserfs **30May2004** in #debian I learned that hdparm fiddling is not likely to improve on the smarts in the kernel drivers.

* ConfidentialityVersusAvailability is a constant struggle

* ToDo: print grub/menu.lst

* Optical disks:

* SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-216B Q001 20010913

* TSST CDW/DVD TS-H492A installed **13May2005**. plays DVDs reasonably well with DebianPackage:totem-xine (DebianPackage:totem-gstreamer works too, but seems to be a bit choppy)

* Keyboard: using a Logitech USB keyboard and a USB hub.
LinuxQuestions.org HCL - Internet Navigator Keyboard

* Mouse: ps/2 mouse. nice weight, but mouse balls have got to go. Replaced it with an optical USB mouse. See "USB mouse details":http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/3B429C01.A97EF219@w3.org

* Speakers: nothing special, I don't suppose, but the integrated speakers in my FlatPanelDisplay sound pretty cheesy in comparison. hmm... move the HT3D speakers here after replacing the reciever in the CoolestBasement with a home-theater-in-a-box?

* Diskette drive: normal. (trying not to use this any more...)

I took the linmodem out because it's junk.

I moved the 52x CD-ROM to AmdAntec.

I have an old WinCast/TV PCI card for VideoPresence. Almost works, but I took it out.

Some detail:

Processor: 1.7GHz pentium 4.
System Board: Gigabyte GA-8IDML.
- Memory: 1GB. (after .5GB upgrade)
- disk controller: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12). (per lspci)
- Sound: Creative CT5880 ( alsa driver : snd-ens1371; oss driver module: es1371). See also: ThreeChordsAndTheTruth
- (the 10/100 eth adapter got zapped by lightning)
- LAN: D-Link RealTek RTL8139 card.
- Video: nvidia GeForce2 ; drivers from nvidia support 3d acceleration ( XF86Config-4 . nvidia-howto test: DebianPackage:tuxracer. ). VGA cable extender from closet to desktop. see FlatPanelDisplay .
Disks:
- WDC WD600AB-00CDB0 60GB
- Maxtor 53073H4 older 30GB disk, purchased 19Nov2000 from Micro Center
- I use DebianPackage:lvm2 and reiserfs 30May2004 in #debian I learned that hdparm fiddling is not likely to improve on the smarts in the kernel drivers.
- ConfidentialityVersusAvailability is a constant struggle
- ToDo : print grub/menu.lst
Optical disks:
- SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-216B Q001 20010913
- TSST CDW/DVD TS-H492A installed 13May2005 . plays DVDs reasonably well with DebianPackage:totem-xine ( DebianPackage:totem-gstreamer works too, but seems to be a bit choppy)
Keyboard: using a Logitech USB keyboard and a USB hub. LinuxQuestions.org HCL - Internet Navigator Keyboard
Mouse: ps/2 mouse. nice weight, but mouse balls have got to go. Replaced it with an optical USB mouse. See USB mouse details
Speakers: nothing special, I don't suppose, but the integrated speakers in my FlatPanelDisplay sound pretty cheesy in comparison. hmm... move the HT3D speakers here after replacing the reciever in the CoolestBasement with a home-theater-in-a-box?
Diskette drive: normal. (trying not to use this any more...)

I took the linmodem out because it's junk.

I moved the 52x CD-ROM to AmdAntec .

I have an old WinCast /TV PCI card for VideoPresence . Almost works, but I took it out.

ConfidentialityVersusAvailability

2005-02-19 17:34:24 64.126.89.30 connolly

**8Sep2004** Password generator bookmarklet.
Thank you del.icio.us! Hmm... I wonder if
it's completely compatible with my Aug2003 algorithm.

**17Jun2004** hmm... audio archives... I can rip CDs and put
them online, but the results are (1) large, and (2) not licensed for
public redistribution.

The peers in my network are: an iPod mini, an iMac (in MaJoStudio),
DirkMachine, SonyVaioJammer, and, if only for links and
metadata, dm93.org. Oh... and the iTunes music store(@@link)
and musicbrainz and freedb.

First choice in the workflow is file format:

* wav or cd or raw -- awfully big

* flac -- still pretty big, and the iPod mini doesn't grok. But since it's lossless, it preserves options. Hmm... I wonder how many CDs would fit on one DVD in FLAC format. But only the iMac can burn DVDs... it does have a 200GB firewire disk... is there some sort of FLAC plug-in for iTunes? evidently not.

* apple's lossless codec -- is there open source support for this?

* ogg -- quite storage-efficient, but the iPod mini doesn't grok and might not be able to ever; I think the iMac can be taught to. ogg plug-in.

* mp3 -- not as open as ogg, but ubiquitously deployed/supported

* AAC -- only works on iMac and iPod

Then there's the choice of where to store the files: structure, metadata, etc.
The right answer is, of course, determined by how it will be accessed.

I tried client/server: xmms on SonyVaioJammer, .ogg in DirkMachine's /var/www/.
Need some sort of access control for that, though.

zinf and musicbrainz are cool for metadata; trms rock. I ripped U2's Bad
2 different ways, and both gave me
the same trm,
from Unforgettable Fire
I had trouble
getting zinf to grab a .ogg by http pointer, though.

[http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Rip/rip-analog.html Analog Ripping HOWTO]

Self-Certifying File System: FAQ
(hmm... when? from ESW wikimarklet)

**1Nov2003**: finally
setting up a CVS repository for dm93.org on mmac:

cvs -d /Users/connolly/dm93cvs init

duplicity
looks cool.

**3 Oct 2003**: new disk for MaJoStudio prompted me to
re-discover
DIBS ... python "Backup your data by trading it with peers on the Internet."

It's none too quick.

**8Oct2003**: bandwidth... from local IDE disk on DirkMachine
using rsync/ssh over 100MB ethernet to a local IDE disk on
mmac, I get:

wrote 106099384 bytes read 216660 bytes 484355.55 bytes/sec
total size is 105175676 speedup is 0.99

how does IDE compare to firewire? are recent versions
of NFS less evil?

**13Sep2003**: hmm... what's the interface to ssh-agent? I'd like
to write python programs to communicate with it. (perhaps cwm tweaks,
or browser plug-ins, screensaver connections... hmm...).
There... sshAuth.py
communicates with ssh-agent... but... hmm... I can't verify
the signature.

**Sep2003**: I went to the trouble to create an MIT certificate, but
now (a) I can't bookmark my MIT directory entry because SAP
doesn't have enough WebmasterClues (javascript/cookie/session-uri out
the wazoo) and (b) I can't figure out how to get the certificate
from mozilla-firebird to galeon (one for BrowserChecklist?). ToDo: learn more
about PSM,
the mozilla personal security manager.

**Aug2003**: going with DebianPackage:pwgen and traditional (paper envelope) key escrow.
Hmm... paper envelope key escrow only works if you keep the envelope sealed until
some emergency comes up, and I can't remember these pwgen passwords, so I'm not
sealing the envelopes. So let's refine it... pick one (or a few) unshared secrets,
then md5sum those with the web site domain to come up with the shared secrets.
Ala echo aa.com *****|md5sum and then take the last 8 characters.

made a key in May 2002 in Hawaii. Got it signed by
a few folks May 2003 in Budapest.

Keep it on flash disk? Sigh... seem to have misplaced my flash disk (18Aug2002).

encrypted filesystem?

Using CryptoAPI.
(see also: 25Jun #rdfig notes)

hmm... "muscle":http://www.linuxnet.com/middle.html smartcards for linux.

hmm... backups... plextor CD writer is a disappointment;
supposed to write at 2x but I have only gotten it
to write at 1x; I make coasters otherwise.

I see a yamaha lightspeed CRW220EZ internal IDE CD-RW 10x20x40 for $99 after rebate.

what about backups/archive for the laptop?
using the net is probably best... 100mbit ethernet?

From connolly Sat Feb 19 17:33:05 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:33:05 +0000
Subject: under the hood of the OS X keychain
Message-ID: <20050219173305+0000@dm93.org>

Every time I log in with SSH Agent, that little "add to keychain" checkbox is staring at me, but I didn't know if keychain source is open to the security community, and I wasn't sure about its architecture.

Turns out the core bits of keychain are open source: Keychain Services and CDSA refers to the OpenGroup's CDSA stuff which refers to a CDSA sourceforge project which seems to have been developed by Intel guys who explained their architecture
in
RFC 2693 - SPKI Certificate Theory.

hmm... this comment belongs to StudentOfMacOsX too... AboutThisWiki note: perhaps a blog with categories would be a better fit.]]>

There is a natural tension between confidentiality and availability. These days, it's pretty straightforward to keep stuff available: disks are cheap, google will cache stuff for you, etc.

But if you want to keep it confidential, you might just store it on one disk, at which point you have to deal with all the failure modes yourself.

8Sep2004 Password generator bookmarklet . Thank you del.icio.us ! Hmm... I wonder if it's completely compatible with my Aug2003 algorithm.

17Jun2004 hmm... audio archives... I can rip CDs and put them online, but the results are (1) large, and (2) not licensed for public redistribution.

The peers in my network are: an iPod mini, an iMac (in MaJoStudio ), DirkMachine , SonyVaioJammer , and, if only for links and metadata, dm93.org. Oh... and the iTunes music store(@@link) and musicbrainz and freedb.

First choice in the workflow is file format:

wav or cd or raw -- awfully big
flac -- still pretty big, and the iPod mini doesn't grok. But since it's lossless, it preserves options. Hmm... I wonder how many CDs would fit on one DVD in FLAC format. But only the iMac can burn DVDs ... it does have a 200GB firewire disk... is there some sort of FLAC plug-in for iTunes? evidently not .
apple's lossless codec -- is there open source support for this?
ogg -- quite storage-efficient, but the iPod mini doesn't grok and might not be able to ever ; I think the iMac can be taught to. ogg plug-in .
mp3 -- not as open as ogg, but ubiquitously deployed/supported
AAC -- only works on iMac and iPod

Then there's the choice of where to store the files: structure, metadata, etc. The right answer is, of course, determined by how it will be accessed.

I tried client/server: xmms on SonyVaioJammer , .ogg in DirkMachine 's /var/www/. Need some sort of access control for that, though.

zinf and musicbrainz are cool for metadata; trms rock. I ripped U2's Bad 2 different ways, and both gave me the same trm, from Unforgettable Fire I had trouble getting zinf to grab a .ogg by http pointer, though.

[http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Rip/rip-analog.html Analog Ripping HOWTO]

Self-Certifying File System: FAQ (hmm... when? from ESW wikimarklet)

1Nov2003 : finally setting up a CVS repository for dm93.org on mmac:

cvs -d /Users/connolly/dm93cvs init

duplicity looks cool.

3 Oct 2003 : new disk for MaJoStudio prompted me to re-discover DIBS ... python "Backup your data by trading it with peers on the Internet."

It's none too quick.

8Oct2003 : bandwidth... from local IDE disk on DirkMachine using rsync/ssh over 100MB ethernet to a local IDE disk on mmac, I get:

 wrote 106099384 bytes read 216660 bytes 484355.55 bytes/sec
 total size is 105175676 speedup is 0.99

how does IDE compare to firewire? are recent versions of NFS less evil?

13Sep2003 : hmm... what's the interface to ssh-agent? I'd like to write python programs to communicate with it. (perhaps cwm tweaks, or browser plug-ins, screensaver connections... hmm...). There... sshAuth.py communicates with ssh-agent... but... hmm... I can't verify the signature.

Sep2003 : I went to the trouble to create an MIT certificate, but now (a) I can't bookmark my MIT directory entry because SAP doesn't have enough WebmasterClues (javascript/cookie/session-uri out the wazoo) and (b) I can't figure out how to get the certificate from mozilla-firebird to galeon (one for BrowserChecklist ?). ToDo : learn more about PSM , the mozilla personal security manager.

Aug2003 : going with DebianPackage:pwgen and traditional (paper envelope) key escrow. Hmm... paper envelope key escrow only works if you keep the envelope sealed until some emergency comes up, and I can't remember these pwgen passwords, so I'm not sealing the envelopes. So let's refine it... pick one (or a few) unshared secrets, then md5sum those with the web site domain to come up with the shared secrets. Ala echo aa.com *****|md5sum and then take the last 8 characters.

made a key in May 2002 in Hawaii. Got it signed by a few folks May 2003 in Budapest.

Keep it on flash disk? Sigh... seem to have misplaced my flash disk (18Aug2002).

encrypted filesystem?

Using CryptoAPI . (see also: 25Jun #rdfig notes )

hmm... muscle smartcards for linux.

hmm... backups... plextor CD writer is a disappointment; supposed to write at 2x but I have only gotten it to write at 1x; I make coasters otherwise.

I see a yamaha lightspeed CRW220EZ internal IDE CD-RW 10x20x40 for $99 after rebate.

what about backups/archive for the laptop? using the net is probably best... 100mbit ethernet?

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

under the hood of the OS X keychain --connolly, Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:33:05 +0000 reply

Every time I log in with SSH Agent, that little "add to keychain" checkbox is staring at me, but I didn't know if keychain source is open to the security community, and I wasn't sure about its architecture.

hmm... this comment belongs to StudentOfMacOsX too... AboutThisWiki note: perhaps a blog with categories would be a better fit.

EighthGradeVideo

2002-12-20 02:23:06 64.126.70.13 connolly


 hmm... could this turn into a home-based business?
 see "Forms of Business Organization, Licenses and Taxes":http://www.missouribusiness.net/docs/forms_of_business_org.asp
 from MoBDN; Mary's considering taking a course by one
 of their consultants on 20Aug2002.
 
 
 30 Apr 2002: DV "clues":http://www.w3.org/2002/04/30-mit-irc#T15-29-01 from Alan, Ralph, Gerald, and Eric in a meeting...
 "gerald's DV camera purchase notes":http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/20010219045551.A8120@impressive.net
 
 Alan recommends
 "iMovie2 - the Missing Manual":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm2/
 
 hmm... the LegacyVideo problem...
]]>

After the MushcakeVideo , Mary's sister asked her to produce a video for an 8th grade class.

(hmm... factor stuff from LegacyVideo , MushcakeVideo etc. into MaJoStudio )

We needed a new FilmKiller ; my previous scanner (a Umax 1200S) had died. We found a deal that looked almost too good to be true: a refurbished Epson for $45. Shipping was only about $9, and it shows up in a day or two. The project involved scanning over 250 photos, and aside from a bonehead play where we left the scanning software in black-and-white mode for about 50 scans, it was a breeze.

Oh... I told Mary not to worry about cropping during scanning; we always crop later. That turned out to be true, but not convenient. Next time: try to scan exactly what you want and no more.

scanner doesn't work in Mac OSX yet. :-{ Used linux... ssh to transfer .jpegs from the linux laptop/desktop to the mac. iMovie wouldn't recognize the resulting files until the type field was set; use SetFile from the developer tools. (@@pointer)

iPhoto works pretty well for cropping/rotating, but getting photos from iPhoto to iMovie is kind of a pain.

Adding titles worked, but it was a little klunky.

The way iMovie handles music is quite smooth.

After we burned about 15 DVDs , we put labels on them (@@pointer to software we used to make the labels). Then they didn't work. Well, the Apple ones didn't work. They're evidently just a little thicker than the memorex ones Mary got at the store.

18May, 9am: Mary just left for OKC to deliver the product. She's attending the graduation ceremony where it will be presented. Stay tuned...

hmm... could this turn into a home-based business? see Forms of Business Organization, Licenses and Taxes from MoBDN ; Mary's considering taking a course by one of their consultants on 20Aug2002.

30 Apr 2002: DV clues from Alan, Ralph, Gerald, and Eric in a meeting... gerald's DV camera purchase notes

Alan recommends iMovie2 - the Missing Manual

hmm... the LegacyVideo problem...

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

FlatPanelDisplay

2003-06-11 20:12:47 64.126.64.19 connolly


 
 Amazaon has this "Envision EN-7100":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MNSS/ref=cm_mp_wli_1/103-6056703-1739041
 for just $549.99. The customer reviews rave.
 
 Among the "flat-panel displays at best-buy":http://www.bestbuy.com/ComputersPeripherals/Monitors/FlatPanel.asp?m=488&cat=497&scat=501
 this "compaq 17 inch":http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11042374&m=488&cat=497&scat=0 looks interesting;
 cheap and includes speakers.
 
 Apple wants $999 for their "17 inch Apple Studio Display":http://www.apple.com/displays/asd17/ . What makes
 it so special? Of course, they use a special connector,
 so there's no way it can get mixed up in the commodity marketplace.
 Hm... does that mean there's no way to use a G4 Mac
 with a commodity flat panel display?
 
 "Acer LCD FP751":http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=l&id=1990551815&clink=dmt3-sbs-ss
 has built-in speaers and 2-port USB hub. Starting at $518 at yahoo stores.
 
 This "PC tech guide":http://www.pctechguide.com/07panels.htm is
 interesting... seems TFT is a subclass of LCD. Not much
 consumer-buying-guide sorta stuff, though...
 
 Ah... "cnet on flat panel displays":http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2295747-8-7924626-1.html?tag=ld
 timely: 21Nov.
 
 reagle recommends "this review":http://www.consumersearch.com/www/computers/flat_panel_monitors/]]>

After using the crisp display on my SonyVaioJammer , I realized how much my desktop monitor sucks; Ralph and EricM corroborated the feeling that I need a FlatPanelDisplay .

I like the idea of integrated speakers... maybe even USB... but the displays that get the best reviews don't seem to have them.

Dec 2001: I decided that the speakers were worth getting (one less power brick in the wall...) but not the USB hub. I've got an NEC MULTISYNC LCD1700M+ on order from NECX . 96dpi, per manual

Amazaon has this Envision EN-7100 for just $549.99. The customer reviews rave.

Among the flat-panel displays at best-buy this compaq 17 inch looks interesting; cheap and includes speakers.

Apple wants $999 for their 17 inch Apple Studio Display . What makes it so special? Of course, they use a special connector, so there's no way it can get mixed up in the commodity marketplace. Hm... does that mean there's no way to use a G4 Mac with a commodity flat panel display?

Acer LCD FP751 has built-in speaers and 2-port USB hub. Starting at $518 at yahoo stores.

This PC tech guide is interesting... seems TFT is a subclass of LCD. Not much consumer-buying-guide sorta stuff, though...

Ah... cnet on flat panel displays timely: 21Nov.

reagle recommends this review ZWIKIMIDSECTION

StudentOfMacOsX

2004-09-14 15:16:07 64.126.89.30 connolly

**14Sep2004**: cvs: command not found. grabbing Xcode 1.5 from apple developer connection.
 Ugh... "If you have not already upgraded to XCode 1.5, we suggest that you wait until this issue is resolved before doing so." -- fink. grabbing fink 0.7.0 anyway.
 
 hmm... rather than putting PbJam's IP addr in /etc/hosts manually, wasn't there some
 python zeroconf tool? hmm...
 pyzeroconf doesn't look like
 the thing I remember, but maybe it'll work... ah... there it is: dotlocal.
 
 
**27Aug2004**: auto-complete for spelling in any cocoa text widget
 
 
**7Jan2003**: What is Mac OS X? from kernelthread, via slashdot.
 
 
**7Oct2003**: remote control article
 esp. vnc server and wake-on-lan python ditty.
 
 **6Oct2003**: talked to folks in #macdev (freenode)
 about USB foo. They concur; USB disk support in OS X sucks.
 I'm considering filing a darwin bug report.
 
 keyboard shortcut
 info is news to me.
 
 hmmm... tasty! DiveIntoOSX.
 
 
 **02Feb2003**: found...
 
 * "Introduction to PyObjC":http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/31/pyobjc_one.html
 by Bill Bumgarner
 01/31/2003
 
 
 **28Jan2003**: brushing up on "AppleScript":http://www.apple.com/applescript/iphoto/ ...
 I'd like to automate various MaJoStudio tasks. I did a lot of HyperCard development,
 so this should be straightfowrad. I'm hesitant to invest in proprietary technology,
 meanwhile; I'd rather use python (though perl looks like it's actually supported
 by apple). @@namespaces... where do these nams come from?
 "applescript dev info":http://www.apple.com/applescript/developers/
 ... installing "script menu":http://www.apple.com/applescript/script_menu/
 hmm... seems to require iphoto 2 (or at least iphoto 1.5; what's that?)
 but I have 1.1.1. Apple seems to have forgotten that anybody bought
 a machine before Jaguar came out.
 
 
 **28Dec2002** ugh; USB floppy support in OS X sucks.
 (comp.sys.mac.hardware 2002-09-11 20:26:47 PST corroborates smartdisk tech support)
 
 but the USB floppy is sloooow.
 usb floppy problem reports.
 
 
 
 **mp3 player**
 
 The rio just works with iTools.
 
 
 **scanning**
 
 The Epson scanner didn't work when we got the machine,
 but we found Vue Scan, and it works great.
 
 
 
 installed this thingy: "darwintools.pkg":http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1.4/darwintools.pkg.tar
 
 It comes with ssh/sshd! Thanks, AaronSw, for the "clues":http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-03-26#T04-58-06 on how
 to fire it up.
 
 
 **Speech**
 
 "speech/weather clues":http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-04-26#T21-11-54 from Bijan and AaronSw.
 
 
 **X Windows**
 
 mac-like window manager: "oroborosx":http://julia.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/
 
 virtual workspace: "Space.doc":http://space.sourceforge.net/
 
 
 
 **morphing**
 
 Hmm... mary wants to do morphing in the VbsVideo. (did it under linux)
 An article on "morphing with illustrator":http://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/morph/
 
 
 **OS X browser**
 
 never mind... safari is clearly the answer now.
 "Chimera":http://www.mozilla.org/projects/chimera/ rocks; it prevents pop-unders.
 
 
 
 **Sharing printers between linux ans OS X**
 
 hmm... can I print to mmac's printer from my linux box?
 
 "Printing":http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/SystemTechnologies/index.html
 in Inside Mac OS X suggests OS X groks CUPS.
 
 "The Unofficial CUPS-on-Apple-Mac-OS-X FAQ":http://www.danka.de/apple-cups-en/ of April, 2002 seems to say it's not installed by default.
 
 
 Jaguar includes "CUPS" as printing system.
 CUPS printing hints on Jaguar
 Aug 24 '02
 
]]>

TelAgentModem

2003-12-16 22:03:29 64.126.64.19


 
 I got the winmodem in SonyVaioJammer working, so that removed some of the pressure.
 But today (10Jul2002) I see the "ps2+linux FAQ":http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php#What_is_not_in_the_kit recommends three products:
 ActionTech Call Waiting Modem UM-100 (LNQUSA-27592-M5-E REN 0.9B)
 Zoom/Faxmodem 56K USB Model 2985L
 MultiTech Systems MultiModemUSB Model MT5634ZBA-USB SKU#93537000
 . "Linux USB database for Zoom 2895L":http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=446
 agrees that it works. How much does it cost?
 
 Why are those dang things so expensive? hmm... I see a
 "PCI modem at eBay for $15":http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2046996195
 ... it's a software modem, but there are
 "linux drivers":http://www.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers_linux.htm
 
 
 
 "It is very handy to be able to talk to my co-workers simply by saying their name."
 -- voice-controlled
 phone, slashdot, July 2002. Too bad it's windows-only. "arialphone":http://www.arialphone.com/
 
 **16Dec2003**: Hmm... what about speech recognition in linux? aha... DebianPackage:sphinx2-bin,
 CMU Sphinx]]>

For my PerfectOffice , I want a caller-id modem to work with telagent .

19Jan2003 : filling out the rebate form... UPACode : 757448002249

29Dec2002 : in the sunday paper, circuit city is advertising a Best Data 56SX-92 Modem for $29.99 ($69.99 less rebates). Ah... aside from session-id URIs , the web site is nice... can buy online and pick up locally.

p3.3 of the command reference shows AT+VCID support.

Hmm... USB or serial? USB seems architecturally nicer, but I guess serial support is more mature. USB would be better for my SonyViaoJammer , but I'm pretty much satisfied with linux support for the internal modem. My router can drive a modem thru a serial port.

I got the winmodem in SonyVaioJammer working, so that removed some of the pressure. But today (10Jul2002) I see the ps2+linux FAQ recommends three products: ActionTech Call Waiting Modem UM-100 (LNQUSA-27592-M5-E REN 0.9B) Zoom/Faxmodem 56K USB Model 2985L MultiTech Systems MultiModemUSB Model MT5634ZBA-USB SKU#93537000 . Linux USB database for Zoom 2895L agrees that it works. How much does it cost?

Why are those dang things so expensive? hmm... I see a PCI modem at eBay for $15 ... it's a software modem, but there are linux drivers

"It is very handy to be able to talk to my co-workers simply by saying their name.": voice-controlled phone , slashdot, July 2002. Too bad it's windows-only. arialphone

16Dec2003 : Hmm... what about speech recognition in linux? aha... DebianPackage:sphinx2-bin, CMU Sphinx ZWIKIMIDSECTION

ToMacOrNotToMac

2004-09-13 16:35:07 64.126.89.30 connolly

1984 commercial, updated). I loved it.
I have been using linux since I joined W3C in 1995. I like a lot of
things about it, and the fonts are finally coming around, but there
are still way too many exceptions to the
"consistent cut/copy/paste (and paste link!) UI":http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/UI.html .

"But the worst, the truly worst part, was cut 'n paste."

"Penguin2Apple: How a Linux Lover turned to a Macintosh":http://www.gamerspress.com/article.php?sid=1709 Posted on Saturday, March 09 @ 10:49:02 EST by Dark Paladin

**13Sep2004**: Since I will have only my laptop when I travel this week, I tried using it exclusively for PerfectOffice work; I hooked it up to my FlatPanelDisplay and USB keyboard/mouse. It fails to support the following idioms:

* WindowPerTask (this pattern goes back to the SmallTalk-80 days, I believe). When I switch windows, I want to do so based on the content of the window, not the application displaying it. The Doc shows Camino vs iPhoto, but I have about 15 Camino windows. I organize my world around my (web-based) calendar/todo service. I start a new window for each telelconference and each todo item. I use tabbed browsing within that window. It's sort of a pain that email is in a separate window. That's another idiom that OS X fails to support:

* view mail "to or cc foo". When I prepare for the foo teleconference, I bring up my inbox in DebianPackage:evolution and search for "to or cc foo". The search results show up in-place; I can
ctrl-t to switch back and forth between threaded and unthreaded. Mail.app can switch, but it's klunky;
there's no keyboard shortcut and you have to explicitly "expand all threads".

Other wierdness: the key marked apple/cloverleaf on this USB keyboard doesn't act like the command key from the Apple HIG (@@link); rather they key marked alt/option/windows-start does. What's up with that? Having to think each time I cut/copy/paste sucks. The whole point of the apple experience is SuspensionOfDisbelief.

Some peers noted I could run evolution under X11 to address some of the issues above, but that brings us back to emulator hell, the antithesis of SuspensionOfDisbelief.

And to top it off, when I started this blarticle, I looked at the upper right corner of the screen, out of habit, to get today's date. OS X shows me the time, but I have to click to see the date.

**14Aug2004**: SonyVaioJammer went KerFlewey, so went shopping for a new laptop. Hmm...
15-inch PowerBook Combo-drive 1.33 Ghz/256MB/60GB looks tasty. $1799 with educational discount. Probably
want to add some 3rd party RAM to that. ... yup... PbJam.

**20Feb2004**: On Wednesday, after Mary's
thyroid surgery,
I just had to listen to
U2's Bad, in bed, to wind down. I wanted it on SonyVaioJammer's
disk (in .ogg format, preferably) so I could listen to it in bed.

I tried grabbing it from a P2P network, only to discover that the gnutella and edonkey
networks are really hard to find, if not gone altogether. Just as well, I suppose.
I own a license to the song on CD, but it's not clear that gives me the right
to download it from the net, and it's clear that it involved a lot of people downloading
songs they had no rights to.
(hmm... see also: DigitalRightsDescription).

I flipped thru our roadtrip CD binder, concluded it wasn't there,
searched the whole house, found the Unforgettable Fire CD jewel case, and finally looked in the CD
binder again and found it.

Then I looked for a debian package for ripping CDs. I considered DebianPackage:gtoaster, but
couldn't get that working right away and used DebianPackage:jack in stead. Finally, I scp'd
the .ogg from DirkMachine to SonyVaioJammer, settled down in bed, and unwound.

Now I have this bunch of U2 CDs on my desk. I wonder about ripping them before I put
them away. You can't beat iTunes for ease of use, and I recently found an
open source AAC decoder that works (though it's too
bleeding edge for a debian package yet). And Mary's new iPod mini doesn't grok ogg.
But... hmm...

**31Dec2001**: nope; I'm building my perfect office on a debian box: DirkMachine.

Ooops... BuyersRemorse... maybe I should have waited...
"New iMac sports flat-panel display":http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-8392837.html?tag=lh

**25Mar2002**: yep; MaJoStudio has an iMac now. Dan is a StudentOfMacOsX now.

**7Jan2004**
iSight and SubEthaEdit from Chris Menzel to SCL... nifty RemotePresence tools, but
they don't interoperate with the open source world; DebianLinuxJustWorks doesn't apply.

In July 2001, my desktop machine was 5 years old, and I had
permission to spend around $1500 to replace it.

Sandro got a screamin linux box for $700. A gigabyte of ram.

I'm having trouble finding an engineering-class Mac
for less than $1600.

KendallClark is considering the same thing.

AaronSw: Hmm... "mac.price.com":http://mac.price.com/ seems to have "some reasonable models":http://mac.price.com/drill.htm?epg=2918&tci=2914 including "a $1260 G4":http://mac.price.com/prices.htm?epg=2918&id=-2146387247

the #openmac folks pointed
me at "dealmac":http://dealmac.com/?sess=85e3d86d0d5914c470dcc3172b492570
and "an iMac for $500":http://dealmac.com/articles/28356.html

"cheap iMac RAM":http://www.ramseeker.com/flatimac512.shtml

cf "nice fonts in linux":http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/20011121014241.GA16942@larve.net from fogo

also "some FDU thing":http://www.neko.it/tvlug/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html
and "some KDE thing":http://dot.kde.org/989808269/ for pretty fonts,
says reagle. also: "for AA":http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3093/3/

"Sub-Pixel Font Positioning on UNIX mini-HOWTO":http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html
discovered 24Jan2002. Last mod: Nov 28 2001 jm

DanC: last time I invested in good fonts, my web browser scrolling slowed down about 3x
DanC: but that was on shoal, my 5 year old, 200mhz machine
reagle-ho: I have beatiful fonts and no problems, even on my 266 mhz machine

11Nov2002: HFSOnLinux

23Nov2002: KidsMac

**28Apr2003**: more font stuff with Liam and jr and cl.
slashdot 12apr on xwin.org,
liam's font stuff,
xwin.org, keithp.
]]>

ResearchNotebook

2004-01-27 02:53:04 64.126.64.19 connolly

#sw
 channel) and I paste excerpts and titles
 and URIs into the channel, along with my reflections.
 
 The benefits of this WorkFlowIdiom are:
 
 * There's a good chance that some of my TrustedCollaborators
 will happen by for a spontaneous real-time chat about
 the topic. For example, one night I wondered how
 to do the equivalent of select distinct in XSLT;
 Hugo happened by and answered the question, since
 he had just spent the whole previous afternoon
 figuring it out. (ToDo: Hugo and I still owe the world
 an article in XmlHack or some such about this).
 
 * My IRC client keeps a log of all channels that I
 participate in; so I have the ability to FullTextSearch
 (using grep/emacs) my BreadCrumbs later. The log
 includes detailed information about time, down to
 the number of minutes between one thought and the next.
 I can also take this log, or excerpts from it,
 and put them in email or HTML/HTTP pages later.
 (don't fall into the trap of saying "email or Web page";
 the Web includes email. hmm... what name should
 I use for this rant? how about OneWeb).
 
 
 The downsides are:
 
 * I use poor-man's hypertext idioms for pairing titles
 with URIs, and for excerpting, but these are lost to
 the machine, and they're ugly and hard to scan. InYourFaceUrls and all that.
 
 * IrreconcilableCopies. Lots of us keep logs, but
 we don't tell the machine that we're recording the
 same thing in lots of places. I want a copy of
 the log for redundancy--and in fact, a log of what
 a particular user agent contributes to the web is
 an important artifact--but I want links to my
 log to be recognized as co-referring with links
 to anybody else's log of the same channel; e.g.
 I want links to them to turn purple.
 
]]>

In this WorkFlowIdiom , the knowledge worker is surfing the web randomly--well, not quite randomly; there is a research agenda in mind; maybe even a stated goal--recording various bits of information from the web that seem valuable, along with reflections on those bits of information. Example: GrokkingUML .

For example, recently (since 1999 or 2000), I ( DanC ) use IRC (usually the #sw channel) and I paste excerpts and titles and URIs into the channel, along with my reflections.

The benefits of this WorkFlowIdiom are:

There's a good chance that some of my TrustedCollaborators will happen by for a spontaneous real-time chat about the topic. For example, one night I wondered how to do the equivalent of select distinct in XSLT; Hugo happened by and answered the question, since he had just spent the whole previous afternoon figuring it out. ( ToDo : Hugo and I still owe the world an article in XmlHack or some such about this).
My IRC client keeps a log of all channels that I participate in; so I have the ability to FullTextSearch (using grep/emacs) my BreadCrumbs later. The log includes detailed information about time, down to the number of minutes between one thought and the next. I can also take this log, or excerpts from it, and put them in email or HTML/HTTP pages later. (don't fall into the trap of saying "email or Web page"; the Web includes email. hmm... what name should I use for this rant? how about OneWeb ).

The downsides are:

I use poor-man's hypertext idioms for pairing titles with URIs , and for excerpting, but these are lost to the machine, and they're ugly and hard to scan. InYourFaceUrls and all that.
IrreconcilableCopies . Lots of us keep logs, but we don't tell the machine that we're recording the same thing in lots of places. I want a copy of the log for redundancy--and in fact, a log of what a particular user agent contributes to the web is an important artifact--but I want links to my log to be recognized as co-referring with links to anybody else's log of the same channel; e.g. I want links to them to turn purple.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

FilmKiller

2005-05-29 22:56:19 64.126.89.30 connolly

philg's photo.net is one of those
sites that I found at random and didn't realize how long I'd
been there until hours later. (He had some harsh but well made
criticism of the W3C web site too.)

Digital photography promises to eliminate all the hassles of getting
photos developed and such, but we're not there yet. Printing photos
is a pain. When SAM's will print them for 19 cents apiece, why bother?

Current Camera: HP PhotoSmart 720

I was looking for a digital camera with...

* at least 2 megapixels

* fast shot-to-shot time

* compact flash card/slot

* USB connection

We got an HP Photosmart 720 (UPACode 808736266178. other barcodes: 1PQ2164A 30PABA SCN33B57519) from microcenter #191 for $299 (price tag barcode: 67334357fk) on 9 Jun 2003.
It uses secure digital rather than compact flash; close enough.
And the shot-to-shot time isn't great. But the picture quality is really good.
Bright colors, crisp.

We took over 200 photos on our **August 2003** RoadTrip
with it. Mary didn't even bring her film camera. That's a landmark!

We brought the video camera,
but didn't use it; the camera takes video clips up to 30 seconds.
We'll see how they turn out.

On **9 Apr 2004**, I called HP support because the camera stopped working.
Woohoo! It's under warrantee, and they sent a replacement, no charge.
Yay HP!

I visited my brother Paul in Pheonix in **Sep 2002**; he had an Olympus Camedia C-700, with 10x optical zoom.
Kinda pricey, but yahoo shopping helps me find a refurb for under $300.

cheap camera at officemax didn't cut it; see ArgusCameraReview.

Film camera, scanning services

**Picture CD is great!** colorado ski trip pictures
and justin's paintball party photos
were taken with Mary's normal 35mm camera and developed using one-hour service at Sam's. For just $3 more (as of **Apr 2003**), they included a CD with reasonable quality scans.

Photo Library Software

We use iPhoto on mmac in MaJoStudio.

Getting the photos out of the camera is no trouble: the 256MB secure digital
card works great with a USB-based reader (SanDisk SDDR-86). I moved them to SonyVaioJammer
a few times during the trip, then bulk-uploaded to mmac in MaJoStudio
for editing (rotating, captioning, red-eye, cropping).

**5 Oct 2003**: how to fix these confused photo dates?
iPhoto is scriptable... Automating iPhoto 2 with AppleScript
explains how... ah iPhoto Library Manager looks cool.

Linux was kinda fidgety... gPhoto
supported cameras didn't include the HP Photosmart 720, and
usb port permissions
are a nightmare.
(are there any standard digital camera USB protocols? yes: "ptp":http://ptp.sourceforge.net/ )

Photo Sharing on the Web

iPhoto works pretty well with Zope via webdav, but
I started to feel the lack of filesystem access for stuff like rsync
and CVS/SVN when I had 200 photos to manage, especially
since iPhoto is export only; after you export, if you edit
in iPhoto, there's no easy way to resync.

I hesitate to publish them here on dm93.org because I'm not
sure I'm done editing them, and I'm not sure how to update
exported photos.

I'm becoming disenchanted with Zope. I'm considering moving to apache+subversion (cf AmayaZopeNotes). **15Aug2003**

HP offered 100 megs of free web space at hpphoto.com.
Haven't taken them up on it.

"Sam's photo club":http://www.samsphotoclub.com/ is
no FilmKiller... javascript and cookies everywhere (as of **25Apr2002**)... just
give me links to my friggin photos, would ya? **7Jan2004** update: Mary was
able to send photos for developing online, rather than burning a CD. They
took a $0.77 order!

In a #zope discussion **13Oct2001**, fUD recommended "Photo and Photo Folder":http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/Photo .

FebShoalWiki

2003-01-15 13:01:10 213.190.37.42


 
 I started at
 ChoosingaWiki, and followed my nose to their source
 
 I grabbed usemod091.tar.gz released February 16, 2001 (md5 sum: f12eb12534a8a843acb1df0df38754fa).
 
 It only took about 3 minutes to set up. I'm happy.
 
 
 TextFormattingExamples and TextFormattingRules
 
 Local configuration: I allow HTML markup, esp a href,
 but only "safe" tags. Not sure what that means.
 
 ug... gotta do InterWikiLinks.
 
 But it doesn't keep full revision history.
 TWiki does,
 but installation looks hard.
 
 : It can if you ask it nicely. In the script, replace sub ExpireKeepFile with
 
 
 sub ExpireKeepFile {
 }
 
 
 : i.e. stub out the function. Alternatively, set the number of expiry days to something astronomical, like 999999999999999999.
 
 
 
 
 
 HomePage -- FebShoalWiki
 
 ResearchNotebook -- imported.
 
 CirclesAndArrowsDiagrams -- some good UML stuff in there
 
 DanC -- trivial; cited "Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data":http://www.w3.org/1999/04/WebData
 
 SemanticWeb -- not much interesting stuff
 
 DataFormats
 
 SemanticWebEvangelism mostly subsumed by "SWAD":http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/ and "SemWeb":http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ pages.
 
 GraphViz
 
 HypertextChat
 
 Ian (trivial)
 
 WardsWiki
 
 WebArchitecture subsumed by WikiWikiWeb:WebArchitecture
 
 MobileWebIntegration
 
 stuff from sandro that I haven't imported (yet?):
 
 SemanticsBackedWebsite
 
 BorrowedIdentifier
 
 PropertyStatement
 
 PropertyStatements.db
 
 LiteralString.db SemanticWebIdentification.db SemanticWebLanguages.db TrivialLanguages.db AnonymousObjects.db SandroHawke.db ImportByIdentifierUse.db
 
 
 
 from "about this wiki"
 
 
 
 imported from Feb 2001 wiki "Home Page":
 
 
 
 Web architecture is part technical design, but it is also
 about building convivial places to live, work and play,
 in the sense of traditional architecture, e.g. the
 work of ChristopherAlexander.
 
 TedNelson argues in FutureOfInformation
 that "the main concerns in software
 development, as well as in movie making, are its
 effects on the mind and heart of the viewer."
 
 
 I (DanC) am setting up a Wiki tonight (18 Feb 2001) because
 when I'm doing research in the Web,
 I'm frustrated for lack of
 
 * ScalableAccessControl - email is a good way to reach just the people you want, but it doesn't separate notification from delivery, and there's no way to update. HTTP access control is too burdensome to administer. I want to deploy a combination of ZeroKnowledgeProofsWithDigestAccess.
 
 * HypertextChat - I want instant messaging with semantic links and blockquotes.
 
 * a HypertextMailUserAgent
 
 * MobileWebIntegration -- palm pilot synchronization, mobile phone contact lists, etc.
 
 * AmayaRobustness -- hypertext editing in Amaya feels *so good* until kerpow! it crashes. And so many web sites are full of such bad HTML that it's no wonder that Amaya has a hard time digesting them.
 
 Ralph and Tim and I talked about setting up a collaborative
 gizmo to discuss WebArchitecture; this is DanC's latest
 attempt. I'd like to share thoughts on
 
 * WebArchitecture
 
 * SemanticWeb, e.g. CirclesAndArrowsDiagrams
 
 * ManagingExpectations in the web: planning, training, accountability, etc.
 
 with folks like
 
 * Eric, Ian, ...
 
 * [www-talk]
 
 * www-rdf-interest, www-rdf-logic
 
 * AdvoGato
 
 * [xml-dev]
 
 * [fork].
 
 Other thoughts on CollaborationTools and WorkFlowIdioms: ResearchNotebook and bibliography tools and practices:
 
 * Bookmarks are great for user agent customization
 
 (esp toolbars) but they're subject to the TyrannyOfTheHierarchy (see WWWn paper on a better way to organize bookmarks) and bookmarking doesn't usually achieve the goal the user intended; for example, ususally, when I bookmark something, I have in mind to tell somebody else about it. So my bookmark list is actually a liability, as much as an asset: it's a TODO list of things that I want to link from somewhere else in the web or tell somebody about. The IE bookmark facility is better than the NS one in that it brings up the "properties" thingy right away and allows you to capture the information about *why* you bookmarked something right at the time.
 
 er... where does annotea fit in?
 
 Acks: WardsWiki.
 
 see also: AboutThisWiki; in particular: this Wiki should
 support normal HTTP Put-based editing; those who have
 real editing web clients shouldn't have to use forms,
 i.e. PoorMansPut, for editing. Of course, this requires
 that the TextFormattingRules become a two way transformation
 from plain text to HTML and back.
 |||^ === A complex table === |
 |^ '''First''' |^ '''Second''' |^ '''Third''' |
 | upper left | upper middle | right side |
 |> right aligned |^ centered |< left aligned |
 |||^ bottom row spans three columns |]]>

WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns

2004-10-23 14:41:28 64.126.89.30 connolly

**23Oct2004**: filling out rebate forms. rebate status.
Microcenter: D-Link DWL-G520 SKU 414334 $27.99 after $20 rebate. UPACode 790069250736
Madwifi Supported Hardware...
praised it in advogato diary.

**6Jul2004**: lightning struck last night and screwed up OPKSNet, including my wireless router. Hmm... want one: linksys WRT54GS,
as discussed 27 May by Cringely.
Got one. Microcenter barcode: 25835057ap. UPACode: 745883559183. Got a 10/100 hub (UPACode 603992504848) while I was at it;
of course, now I don't need it, since there's new HP software that doesn't have the wireless bug.

OpenWRT looks interesting;
DV was hoping to give it a look; I wonder if he has yet.

**17Jun2004** Blue Valley sun article notes 200 nearby hotspots.

**21Jan2003**: upgraded firmware in this
Hawking Technology WR254S to "Version 4.73":http://www.hawkingtech.com/download/wl204.exe Released October 25, 2002.
hmm... perhaps better in WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns.

**13Dec**: Setting up the new printer for wireless access from mmac isn't working in MajoStudio. Broke out
an old hub to go wired for a while. **1Jan2004**: But that affects the balance of ConfidentialityVersusAvailability: my rsync backups now take 10x as long. A 10/100
hub or switch would help. (hmm... refactor? PaperlessOffice, OPKSNet).
yahoo shopping... Compaq 10/100 Fast Ethernet 5-Port Switch Auto Sensing P/N# 243654-001 $6.99+7.50s/h=14.49. Hmm... perhaps ask HP support why the mac can see the printer on the same ethernet segment but not when going thru the access point accross a wireless link before buying.

nifty:

* "802.11b Networking News":http://80211b.weblogger.com/

Liam says: "I find that on Linux I have to do sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=300 to stop the router from dropping otherwise inactive connections,but this is a common problem with these devices, it seems."

DebianPackage:airsnort -- couldn't get it working (Aug 2002).

DebianPackage:korinoco -- worked great, 1st time.

DebianPackage:kismet -- gotta try it out. "kismet home":http://www.kismetwireless.net/]]>

Indeed, 802.11 in the home rocks. As I write this, I'm in the dining room downstairs; I just carried my SonyVaioJammer down here; it talks to the AlwaysOnInternet thru another box here in OPKSNet .

GSM and IRDA also rock. getting critical connecting gate info was a high point.

23Oct2004 : filling out rebate forms. rebate status . Microcenter: D-Link DWL-G520 SKU 414334 $27.99 after $20 rebate. UPACode 790069250736 Madwifi Supported Hardware ... praised it in advogato diary .

6Jul2004 : lightning struck last night and screwed up OPKSNet , including my wireless router. Hmm... want one: linksys WRT54GS , as discussed 27 May by Cringely . Got one. Microcenter barcode: 25835057ap. UPACode : 745883559183. Got a 10/100 hub ( UPACode 603992504848) while I was at it; of course, now I don't need it, since there's new HP software that doesn't have the wireless bug.

OpenWRT looks interesting; DV was hoping to give it a look; I wonder if he has yet.

17Jun2004 Blue Valley sun article notes 200 nearby hotspots .

21Jan2003 : upgraded firmware in this Hawking Technology WR254S to Version 4.73 Released October 25, 2002. hmm... perhaps better in WirelessNetworkingUpsAndDowns .

13Dec : Setting up the new printer for wireless access from mmac isn't working in MajoStudio . Broke out an old hub to go wired for a while. 1Jan2004 : But that affects the balance of ConfidentialityVersusAvailability : my rsync backups now take 10x as long. A 10/100 hub or switch would help. (hmm... refactor? PaperlessOffice , OPKSNet ). yahoo shopping... Compaq 10/100 Fast Ethernet 5-Port Switch Auto Sensing P/N# 243654-001 $6.99+7.50s/h=14.49. Hmm... perhaps ask HP support why the mac can see the printer on the same ethernet segment but not when going thru the access point accross a wireless link before buying.

nifty:

802.11b Networking News

DebianPackage:airsnort: couldn't get it working (Aug 2002).
DebianPackage:korinoco: worked great, 1st time.
DebianPackage:kismet: gotta try it out. kismet home ZWIKIMIDSECTION

RemotePresence

2005-01-07 20:38:52 64.126.89.30 connolly

amazon wants $50 (headset flaked out today, **7Jan2004**) * a Plantronics M110. UPACode 017229053205. I'm pretty happy with it. It has 3 volume settings for the microphone. I got mine at Micro Center for $19.99+tax, but I don't see it in their online catalog. But I do see Plantronics Headset M110 for Mobile & Cordless Phones for $12.99 at amazon. * sometimes a TelAgentModem. (see OPKSNet for diagram and such) I also make extensive use of ESemWeb:InternetRelayChat, sometimes as a supplement to phone calls. I use: * DebianPackage:xchat and sometimes DebianPackage:gaim (and "fire":http://fire.sourceforge.net/ as a StudentOfMacOsX) and ircbridge.py (@@) from my WearableGizmo. xchat RFE: drag log files to email. (12 sep) I'd sure like to add VideoPresence to the mix.

New Phone Uses WLAN or Cel Networks

**12Apr2004**: picked up a Uniden TRUc56 2.4 GHz Phone at SAM's for $30. UPACode 050633201190 . advantagess: * mute button * integrated caller-id * amazingly small * 2-ear headset has great audio quality disadvantages: * belt-clip has to come off when you put it in the charging holster * doens't work without headset * no speaker-phone * 2-ear headset isn't as comfortable as the Plantronics M110 * near 802.11 in the spectrum. (I haven't seen any problems, but I've seen some reported.) older: a 900mhz phone@@ (replaced: 2.4GHz Call Waiting Caller ID Cordless Telephone; BE-3850BK. ~$40 at SAM's, 18Aug2002. UPACode: 075668838500. . Amazon wants $50 for it. TT Systems seems to have made it, then Bell Equipment SONECOR put their label on the front. No, it's actually made by phonemate. It has a NiMh battery) **6Jul2003**: tried out DebianPackage:psi, a jabber client. gale. discussion in RDFIG. **19Jun2003**: found a 900mhz cordless phone with a nice form factor at walgreens while picking up perscriptions for Justin (@@link to tonsilectomy photos). no caller id, but it's a speakerphone. **29Mar2003** sure enough, the el-cheapo headset on my 2.4ghz phone went bad. I replaced it with a Plantronics M110. **Mar 2003**: hmm... "FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance":http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3466 By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Mar 27 2003 1:11AM **Feb 2003**: "U.S. Endorses Merging Telephone, Internet Numbers":http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=582&ncid=582&e=7&u=/nm/20030213/wr_nm/tech_enum_dc Thu Feb 13, 5:42 PM ET By Andy Sullivan, Reuters **7Jan2003** Hmm... "Vonage":http://www.vonage.com/ looks nifty, provided AlwaysOnInternet is sufficiently reliable. **26Mar** I'm signed up and operational. See OPKSNet diagram for details. Can I dial using the network somehow? Well, dtmf dialing works, of course. Hmm... can I get caller-id from the Cisco ATA 186 somehow? Maybe by using POTS technology? **18Aug2002**: new 2.4ghz phone. I'm kinda worried about the reliability of the headset, though; it's got one of those little connectors that went bad on my first phone.

**Aug 2002**: That voipblaster@@ sure was cool; it almost worked. they're back. refurb $30. slashdot story. **Jun 2002**: trying to get gnomemeeting working thru my NAT firewall. "faq":http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php#AEN229 suggests it's tricky. They suggest "RSIP":http://openresources.info.ucl.ac.be/rsip/ as an alternative to NAT. **Mar 2002**: ircle isn't OpenSource; "ShadowIRC":http://www.shadowirc.com/ looks promising... pretty much just using chatzilla any more). **2001**: see "Teleconference Gizmo":http://www.w3.org/1998/12/telcon-gizmo from 1998, 2001. From connolly Thu Jan 6 16:00:34 +0000 2005 From: connolly Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:00:34 +0000 Subject: investigated jabber, client side Message-ID: <20050106160034+0000@dm93.org> notes on psi etc. to come also investigating a jabber service on people.w3.org ]]>

MoviesDanSaw

2005-06-02 20:29:13 64.126.89.30 connolly

Bringing Down the House (2003)
 women fist-fighting... no thanks.
 
 * 2005-05 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days on trip to Amsterdam for XTech
 
 * 2005-05 Moonlight Mile on trip to Amsterdam for XTech. kinda like goodwill hunting, that train movie with the midget... people dealing with death
 
 * 2005-05 Six Degress of Separation on trip to Amsterdam for XTech. wierd!
 
 * 2004-09-11T19:40 Bourne Supremacy at Town Ctr 20
 
 * 2004-07-04 Cold Mountain Blockbuster
 
 * 2004-07-18 King Arthur
 
 * 2004-05-30T19:35 Troy at Town Center 20
 
 * 2004-05-01T19:55 Laws of Attraction at Studio 29KC
 
 * 2004-01-30T22:00 Mystic River at Town Center 20
 
 * 2004-02-21T16:35 Miracle at Town Center 20
 
 * 2004-01-05 Master & Commander at AMC Studio 29KC (??)
 
 * 2003-12-21T16:15 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at Town Center 20
 
 * 2003-12-26D: really enjoyed Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin.
 
 * 2003-10-03 Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
 
 * 2003-09-01 Pirates of the Carribean amc studio 30
 
 * 2003-09 Never been kissed
 
 * 2003-08-15 Phone Booth (2002) w/Kiefer Sutherland. Blockbuster DVD
 
 * 2003-05-03 Snatch, w/ Brad Pitt
 
 * 2003-04-26 Emma (1996) library
 
 * 2003-01-26 Memento blockbuster DVD
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Minority report" blockbuster DVD rental
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Two towers" ??
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Affair of the necklace" ORD->MAN (in-flight DVD)
 
 * 2003-01-?? "K-PAX ORD->MAN
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Miss Congeniality" ORD->MAN
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Goldmember" MAN->ORD
 
 * 2003-01-?? "Hearts in atlantis" MAN->ORD
 
 * 2002-12-14 "Star Trek 10: Nemesis" @ AMC Town Center 20
 
 * 2002-11-15 "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" @AMC Parkway 14
 What a hoot!
 
 * 2002-08-02 "Star Wars 2" @ Studio 30
 
 * 2002-05-25 "About a Boy". Hmm... i think
 we actually saw spider man that day.
 
 "About a Boy":http://us.imdb.com/Title?0276751 go see it!
 
 * 2002-05-20 Star Wars 2 AMC Studio 30 in OPKS.
 (yes, that's one of the 6 theaters with digital
 screens, but no, we didn't see it on
 the digital screen. :-{ )
 
 
 * 2002-09-22 "Rush Hour 2" Town Center 20
 
 * 2001-08-01 "Everest" IMAX KC Zoo
 
 * 2001-07-27 "Jurassic" - digital? screen 5. AMC 30
 
 * 2001-06-06 "Shrek" AMC Studio 30
 
 * 2001-05-08 "Finding Forrester" rented from Blockbuster
 
 * 2001-02-16 "Crouching Tiger Hidden Drafon" Town Center 20
 
 * 2000-12-02 "Michael Jordan" IMAX KC Zoo
 
 * 2000-08-25 "Perfect Storm" Town Center 20
 
 * 2000-02-20 "Green Mile" Town Center 20
 
 * 2000-01-29 "American Beauty" Arbor 7
 
 * 1999-12-28 "Three Kings" Discount cinema 8
 
 * 1999-12-23 THU "Toys #ONE" Tinseltown USA #2
 
 * 1999-08-15 "Austin Powers" Cinemark Discount Cinema 8 in Austin
 
 * 1999-05-31 "Payback" Discount Cinmea 8
 
 * 1998-10-02 "Lethal Weapon 3" Cinemark
 
 * 1998-03-15 "Stark trek VI" Cinemark Dollar Cinema 8
 
 * 1996-05-12 "Dances with wolves" AMC Central Park
 
 * 1987-07-24 "Robocop"
 
 * ????-03-12 Sun "Cider House Rules" Tinseltown USA #2
 
 * ????-04-24 "Silence of the lambs"
 
 * ????-07-03 "Terminator 2" UA Theater
 
 * ????-08-15 SUN "Basic Instinct"
 
 * ????-09-25 "Sleepless ..."
 
 * ????-10-09 "Patriot"
 
 * ????-10-16 "Ghost"
 
 * "... men out"
 
 * "Dead ..."
 
 * "Fried green tomatoes"
 
 * "Internal ..."
 
 * "Unlawful ..."
 
 
 
 
 From connolly Wed Dec 22 22:46:14 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:46:14 +0000
 Subject: Collateral
 Message-ID: <20041222224614+0000@dm93.org>
 
 rented it at Blockbuster 2004-12-20. OK, I'll admit it, I go for the special-forces thing.
 
 From connolly Tue Apr 19 18:46:28 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:46:28 +0000
 Subject: Fever Pitch
 Message-ID: <20050419184628+0000@dm93.org>
 
 saw it with Mary on Saturday. Fun!
]]>

I like to ShareLifeThruArt . This is sort of a raw log of movies I saw (in the 2002 ChristmasCardRitual , going thru old stuff, I transcribed a pile of movie tickets going back to 1987).

See IMDB for details about most popular films.

2005-06-01 Bringing Down the House (2003) women fist-fighting... no thanks.
2005-05 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days on trip to Amsterdam for XTech
2005-05 Moonlight Mile on trip to Amsterdam for XTech . kinda like goodwill hunting, that train movie with the midget... people dealing with death
2005-05 Six Degress of Separation on trip to Amsterdam for XTech . wierd!
2004-09-11T19:40 Bourne Supremacy at Town Ctr 20
2004-07-04 Cold Mountain Blockbuster
2004-07-18 King Arthur
2004-05-30T19:35 Troy at Town Center 20
2004-05-01T19:55 Laws of Attraction at Studio 29KC
2004-01-30T22:00 Mystic River at Town Center 20
2004-02-21T16:35 Miracle at Town Center 20
2004-01-05 Master & Commander at AMC Studio 29KC (??)
2003-12-21T16:15 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at Town Center 20
2003-12-26D: really enjoyed Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin.
2003-10-03 Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
2003-09-01 Pirates of the Carribean amc studio 30
2003-09 Never been kissed
2003-08-15 Phone Booth (2002) w/Kiefer Sutherland. Blockbuster DVD
2003-05-03 Snatch, w/ Brad Pitt
2003-04-26 Emma (1996) library
2003-01-26 Memento blockbuster DVD
2003-01-?? "Minority report" blockbuster DVD rental
2003-01-?? "Two towers" ??
2003-01-?? "Affair of the necklace" ORD->MAN (in-flight DVD)
2003-01-?? "K-PAX ORD->MAN
2003-01-?? "Miss Congeniality" ORD->MAN
2003-01-?? "Goldmember" MAN->ORD
2003-01-?? "Hearts in atlantis" MAN->ORD
2002-12-14 "Star Trek 10: Nemesis" @ AMC Town Center 20
2002-11-15 "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" @AMC Parkway 14 What a hoot!
2002-08-02 "Star Wars 2" @ Studio 30
2002-05-25 "About a Boy". Hmm... i think we actually saw spider man that day.

About a Boy go see it!

2002-05-20 Star Wars 2 AMC Studio 30 in OPKS. (yes, that's one of the 6 theaters with digital screens, but no, we didn't see it on the digital screen. :-{ )
2002-09-22 "Rush Hour 2" Town Center 20
2001-08-01 "Everest" IMAX KC Zoo
2001-07-27 "Jurassic" - digital? screen 5. AMC 30
2001-06-06 "Shrek" AMC Studio 30
2001-05-08 "Finding Forrester" rented from Blockbuster
2001-02-16 "Crouching Tiger Hidden Drafon" Town Center 20
2000-12-02 "Michael Jordan" IMAX KC Zoo
2000-08-25 "Perfect Storm" Town Center 20
2000-02-20 "Green Mile" Town Center 20
2000-01-29 "American Beauty" Arbor 7
1999-12-28 "Three Kings" Discount cinema 8
1999-12-23 THU "Toys #ONE" Tinseltown USA #2
1999-08-15 "Austin Powers" Cinemark Discount Cinema 8 in Austin
1999-05-31 "Payback" Discount Cinmea 8
1998-10-02 "Lethal Weapon 3" Cinemark
1998-03-15 "Stark trek VI" Cinemark Dollar Cinema 8
1996-05-12 "Dances with wolves" AMC Central Park
1987-07-24 "Robocop"
????-03-12 Sun "Cider House Rules" Tinseltown USA #2
????-04-24 "Silence of the lambs"
????-07-03 "Terminator 2" UA Theater
????-08-15 SUN "Basic Instinct"
????-09-25 "Sleepless ..."
????-10-09 "Patriot"
????-10-16 "Ghost"
"... men out"
"Dead ..."
"Fried green tomatoes"
"Internal ..."
"Unlawful ..."

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

Collateral --connolly, Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:46:14 +0000 reply

rented it at Blockbuster 2004-12-20. OK, I'll admit it, I go for the special-forces thing.

Fever Pitch --connolly, Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:46:28 +0000 reply

saw it with Mary on Saturday. Fun!

ShareLifeThruArt

2005-06-02 19:55:49 64.126.89.30 connolly

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler

for reference: MoviesDanSaw, moviewatcher,
Rio theater

**31Oct2004**: Another Sunday afternoon date thanks to the folks at church who organized childcare. Mary
and I saw Ladder 49. Heavy duty. A great
story full of good guys.

We squeezed in the 11am show, thanks to
yahoo driving directions from church to Dickinson Eastglen 16.

**21Oct2004** **Bad Graceland CD**

I listened to Graceland
a zillion times... while working on HyperSchool (on UTMac), I just played it over and over. I think it was
a cassette copy.

cleaning my office, again... trying and failing, for the Nth time, to rip this Graceland CD.
Want that agent again...

How do MusicBrainz cdids work? ah...
/usr/share/doc/python2.3-musicbrainz/examples/cdid.py

**4Sep2004** **Cassette Archive**

cleaning my office... indexing my cassettes in del.icio.us via musicbrainz. ToDo: start an agent grabbing digital copies based on this index. Hmm... musicbrainz doesn't seem to have release info, i.e. years, for many of these, and I'm having problems loggin in to fix that. I guess I'll scribble that down in the delicious extra field, along with UPACodes.

ToDo: take a photo of the physical media, sign it , and get it notarized by a digital timestamping service ala that DRM workshop paper by... Mark M?

I have a hardcopy of my 1997-06-08 index; can't find softcopy; think it went bye-bye with a WinNT partition a while ago. So... making notes on stuff that's not elsewhere in the web...

Moonshadow at senior retreat 1986

Fooling Yourself ... on the road to San Antonio w/Doug 1988

Roundabout at Sandstone with Leslie.

Longest Time at the party with my Dad's family on the east coast. Uncle John Petit?

Will T. Massey: Kickin' Up Dust bought at the Chicago House in Austin, TX.

U2 War. 1987 Andrew, roommate from UT Austin

**13Aug2004**: went to see I, Robot with Andy.
Now Brennan wants to see it. Hmm... kids-in-mind rating
makes me wonder...

**6Aug2004**:
It's a great day to be in Kansas City! I took off work early
to go to Oceans of Fun with the family.
I got to body-surf and fling the boys
around in the wave pool. We tried out the kyaks and I remembered the Vancouver
TAG trip and did a little more splashing. Mary enjoyed relaxing in the sun.
Kyle was nearly pooped and joined her while Justin and I went down a big waterslide.
The burgers were horrible, after that we went to the wave pool again. We were
a little surprised that the park closed at 6pm; we were the last ones out of
the wave pool.

Mary had clipped a notice about
Free Friday Night Flicks
from the paper, so we made our way toward Crown Center, even though the 9:15pm
start time was a couple hours away. The timing turned out to be just right:
quite a few people were already there, setting up blankets and lawn chairs,
by the time we got there. People were playing frisbee and hitting a volleyball
around to pass the time; I had grabbed a tennis ball from the back of the
car and Justin and I threw that around for a while. They even had popcorn
and nachos at the concession stand. The movie was
Raiders of the Lost Ark, a little on the scary/violent
side for our 8 and 9 year old boys (Kyle was asleep in Mary's arms by then)
but it has remarkable staying power... wow... has it really been 23 years since
it came out?

From where we sat, we not only had a nice view of the movie, but we could
see the flame burning on the Liberty Memorial,
the American Restaurant where Mary and I shared a dream-like meal a few years ago,
and we could watch the stars come out.

On the way home, we got into a discussion of which parts of the movie were real
and which were not... the ark is historical (BibleVerse:Numbers+10:33) though
the fire coming out of it was kinda hollywood. They asked what Nazis were.
While I was explaining, Brennan asked if Hitler was that guy who killed
himself; I actually didn't know... WearableGizmo and Wikipedia to the rescue...
yes, Hitler killed himself.

Somber stuff, but that's what movies are about, right? They entertain, but
they also stimulate important conversations.

**4Aug2004**: After exchanging mail with my economist friend Mark, I recalled that
a recent Wikipedia featured article was on economics, so I started poking around.
Supply and
demand made sense, so I got bold and went looking for the stuff
John Nash was working on in A Beautiful Mind.
Found it: Nash equilibrium.
Nifty!

**28Jul2004**: I made a new songs-to-run-by playlist in iTunes yesterday, for use in the iPod. Hmm... how to export it to the web? I suppose the playlist data is in XML on the machine somewhere... hmm...

I'm often wondering what song a credit card charge from ITMS corresponds to, for
my stuff:media quicken records.

**24Jul2004**: We rented Mona Lisa Smile. The
depressing thing about that movie is how *little* things have changed since then. When we lived in the
Boston area, we picked up quite a bit of "not our sort of people" vibe. In
travels with samantha, philg
writes
"... one can't live 14 years in Boston without absorbing some of the prevailing contempt for those who live beyond reach of Harvard and MIT."

netflix definitely appeals to my geek sensitivities,
and I *do* hate paying late fees, but we have an arrangement that's pretty close to a
free lunch: The Discover
cash back bonus counts double if you use it at blockbuster. So we get something
like 10 rentals for $20, and the $20 was sorta free money to start with.

**18July2004**: Mary and I saw King Arthur on Sunday, thanks to Susan Harrison and the gang at church who provide stuff for the kids to do so the parents can have a date now and again.
I enjoyed comparing this version of the story with the wikipedia article on King Arthur afterward. Wikipedia just continues to amaze me. *perhaps merits an interwiki link*

**5May2004**: Ushering for The Producers, a Kansas City Theater League
production a the music hall.

**Feb2004**: on moments of clarity:

"Have you ever stood over a putt, Michael, and seen the line laid out as clearly as if it were drawn in chalk on the green?" - p147 Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield (ISBNCode 0380817446)

Like my 6-ball shot the other night.

**14Feb2004**: saw Miracle at Town Center 20. Such an adrenaline rush I had to see it again!

**26Dec2003**: really enjoyed Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin.

**Dec2003**: SOULSCORING from Mark S.
(also: Sleepless nights by freefall, 1988... ThreeChordsAndTheTruth)

**Dec2003**: introduced myself to a true Texan, Kendall Clark. We
discussed Hands on a Hardbody. He recommended an essay on Eastwood, focusing on Mystic River. Very worth reading.

**Nov 2003**: read Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
(UPACode 07100100799273185 ISBN: 0380731851)
on my trip to Japan.
Good stuff, if a little on the gritty side.
Enjoyed the details about Boston, having lived there for a few years.
Declined to really identify with the father's loss
of a child.

Sep 2002: Saw JFK again last night on cable.
The Kennedy Assassination
By John McAdams
© 1995-2002 debunks most of it to my satisfaction.

Aug 2002: blackhawk down
web site is awesome. I finally saw the movie, then went googling to find out more about it,
and spent another 90 minutes reading all about it. Wow!

July 2002: movie party...
Dead Poets Society, Airplane, ...

July 2002: nifty! "BookCrossing":http://wwww.bookcrossing.com/home
from "chatting with danbri in #rdfig":http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-07-11#T14-35-53 .

"Snow Falling on Cedars":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067976402X/danconnollyA/
ISBNCode 978067976402151200 . by by David Guterson October 1995. Finished it Nov 2002 (started
it on my October trip to Bristol?). The writing got me into
the characters; I had high hopes for the ending, but it just sorta petered out.

extreme book review in sep 2000 research notebook;
thin air in Dec '96 personal notes.

Spring 2002: we're reading the Harry Potter books to the kids at bed time.
Fun stuff. Gotta be careful to give the right message about witchcraft...

July 2002: saw "The Rookie" with the boys in MN. Great!
Wanna see it again with Mary and Mom. That reminds
me... I wanna see "For Love of the Game":http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=28631670%26trkid=73

As a birthday present for Dan, Jack and Marilyn took him and Mary
to see "Sérgio and Odair Assad, guitar duo":http://www.umkc.edu/performance/signature/assad.htm
(**2Feb2002**). What they do seems plainly impossible.

Saw _Lord of the Rings_ **7Jan2002** with Andy.
Mary and I went to see it a while ago, but it
was sold out. Thumbs up for "moviewatcher":http://www.moviewatcher.com/
where you can buy online ahead of time and be sure.
The moviewatcher freebies are pretty good too.

This movie was good... maybe even great... but it didn't live
up to the hype. I remember thinking 'this part is
slow; could be edited out.' I'm a big Tolkein fan...
read the Hobit and the trilogy... more than once, I think.
(couldn't get into the silmarilion, though. not *that* big
of a fan.) The dark riders were scarier in the
book than in the film.

15Mar2002: saw _The Time Machine_ with Andy
at Town Center 20. Better
than I expected.

original works:

* _A Young Man_, 18 Apr 1989

* _Which way to go_, Jun 20 1992 (in Mac Originals/Music)

Hmm... after wrestling with HFSOnLinux, I restored my studio
session files, but my copy of the app won't run. Aha!
"studio session":http://www.madcapps.com/bogas_productions.htm
is still out there, and it runs under Mac OS X!
Hmm... how to get my data back? I can't seem to print
to PDF in classic mode; I can make a 22khz sound sample,
but that's not really what I want. Aha!
the "studio session file format":http://www.quellcodes.de/hosted/tfe/docs_sound/formats/sss-form.html is published::

This Document release Date: 11/8/93 (ver 1.0 of "SSS-form.txt")

THE STUDIO SESSION SONG FILE FORMAT (Editor version 1.0)
--------------------------------------------------------
Format created by: Steve Capps , Mark Zimmer,
Tom Hedges, Ed Bogas, Nick Borelli, Ty Roberts, and Neil Cormia
of Bogas Software in 1986.

"popular copy of sss.zip":http://myfileformats.com/download.php?url=/files/sss.zip&id=2700&name=SSS

from the U.T. Austin days...
Tequila Sunrise (1988)... Rod Stewart 27 Jul 1988. The Education of Little Tree

hmm... how to organize... MoviesDanSaw, MichaelCrichtonBooks... DansUnifyingPrinciples, ScriptureNotes

I recommend various books in association with amazon.com.

ToDo: reconstruct cassette metadata collection, linking songs with life experiences.

From connolly Tue Dec 28 23:53:39 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:53:39 +0000
Subject: "National Treasure", Free Masons, Knights Templar
Message-ID: <20041228235339+0000@dm93.org>

First the Da Vinci Code, now National Treasure sends me into wikipedia to read about Free Masons, Knights Templar, and the Priory of Sion.

From connolly Sun Jan 2 08:18:51 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:18:51 +0000
Subject: Too many VHS tapes?
Message-ID: <20050102081851+0000@dm93.org>

Before getting rid of some (via amazon marketplace, maybe?), I made
an index.

From connolly Tue Feb 1 18:52:19 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:52:19 +0000
Subject: McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives
Message-ID: <20050201185219+0000@dm93.org>

In the Chicago airport, on the outbound leg of my November 2004 trip to Boston, I discovered a McMurtry book I hadn't read: By Sorrow's River : The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3. I got Sin Killer for Christmas and read it on my January trip to Helsinki. English gentry meets the wild west. Fun!

From connolly Thu Feb 10 16:23:32 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:23:32 +0000
Subject: FilmTrust
Message-ID: <20050210162332+0000@dm93.org>

FilmTrust is a project at UMD, one hop away from my research group. It seems to take a symbolic approach to a problem where statistical methods seem more promising to me, but let's see if it's fun and useful.

From connolly Sun Feb 13 22:20:08 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:20:08 +0000
Subject: Hollywood on Hughes
Message-ID: <20050213222008+0000@dm93.org>

saw "The Aviator" 5 Feb. New sitter, new theater. Howard Hughes

From connolly Wed Jun 1 15:35:03 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:35:03 +0000
Subject: 'different than' and LVP's Troublesome Twenty-Seven
Message-ID: <20050601153503+0000@dm93.org>

The "Troublesome Twenty-Seven" from
The Lively Art of Writing by Lucile Vaughan Payne is permanently etched into my brain ever since Ewing's writing class; sorta like the way syntax coloring rules are burned into text editors these days.

From connolly Thu Jun 2 19:55:49 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:55:49 +0000
Subject: "The Last Juror", trying out bookcrossing
Message-ID: <20050602195549+0000@dm93.org>

I think DanBri told me about BookCrossing a while back; I didn't get past the initial sign-up hurdle until today: I created a dan93 bookshelf and put
my copy of The Last Juror in there.

Verdict: tentative thumbs-down. It was a hassle to sign up; the first two screen-names
I chose were already taken, and the form forgot my email address, country, and state
each time I chose a new screen name. There's no option to keep your city or age
unlisted, as far as I can see. And it's kinda slow and klunky. And the community
feels too big for me to feel like a significant part of it. Not much value for
the investment, so far.

]]>

WearableGizmo

2005-05-15 06:01:36 64.126.89.30 connolly

Is
anything better than paper?

Handy stuff: t-mobile, "danger info":http://www.dangerinfo.com/
"sidekick docs":http://help.sidekick.dngr.com/index.html

why I love it:

- just one device for both PDA (beep-when-I-need-to-do-something) features
and cellphone features, plus critical net stuff (email, web)

- real email, web support (POP/SMTP, HTTP/HTML. APOP, SSL, and PDF attachments, even). hiptop google. (@@trust issues)

- flat-rate data service

- real-time sync with web, ala
"seamless and invisible device coordination":http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020526.html
(dngr.com provides a web-based PIM, ala yahoo address book/calendar, which is
kept in sync with the device in real-time)
(working on RDF integration: hipAgent.py
in "palmagent":http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2001/palmagent/)

- reasonably priced. **8Dec2003**: Holy price-wars, batman!
color sidekick for $20 at amazon!. (see also: rdfig, advogato).

- updates slowly but surely addressing critical issues: cut/paste (ala PsionWearableGizmo, PilotWearableGizmo), calculator.

I also like my RadioWatchGizmo pretty much.

**30Oct2004**: the wheel on my CSK has gone bad; called T-Mobile about upgrading
to the SKII and they want full retali ($300) for it. Come on! I've been a loyal
customer for 3 years! They're encouraging me to go elsewhere. Maybe I'll try a treo.

**21Sep2004**: the side-kick II is triband. I might have to go for the upgrade offer.

**8Aug2004**: I was able to pay bills using my sidekick a while ago; it's not
working this week. nor is proxyweb. What's going on? I've known for a while
about their goofy CSS support (why not respect the handheld media type?)
The Danger Inc. Web Site Optimisation Guidelines, formerly
at http://www.danger.com/web_guidelines.php,
have gone 404.

hiptop vs web stds

WaSP slams hiptop

forum discussion of CSS, E-Tags, etc.

**Jun2004**: I left my gizmo outside overnight and my new dog ate it. I still
have my old black and white gizmo, and the nice thing about the sidekick is you
just move the SIM chip from one device to another and presto! all your data
comes with you. Before I call and ask for a replacement, I wonder what's new
in the market?

Danger's new gizmo ï¿½ exclusiveï¿½ erï¿½ sketch
By Andrew Orlowski in Cannes
Published Wednesday 25th February 2004 18:24 GMT

**6Dec2003**: idea: bookmarklet for: take a yahoo yellow pages listing and add it to my sidekick addressbook. hmm... add it only
if there's not already one that has this phone number. how to maintain
the backlink... updates/sync?

**29Dec2003**: picked up a Franklin RF-8013 (UPACode 084793993763) from
Microcenter for $10 for Mary. Let's see if it's any better than a pencil...

In **Oct 2002** I saw an slashdot
review of the danger sidekick. **Dec 2002**: Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas to me!
(anybody else remember the birthday web?)
I got a T-Mobile Sidekick with Camera Attachment from Amazon.

Short history of my wearable gizmos:

* PsionWearableGizmo: Loved it, but no sync.

* PilotWearableGizmo: love the syncing; graffiti is no match for a keyboard,
and the palm datebook is no match for the psion agenda.
Lost/broke a few of these

* NokiaWearableGizmo: survived on PDA
features of my nokia 8290 cellphone until it was stolen
in Hawaii in May 2002 ("trip notes":http://www.w3.org/2002/05hi-dc/trip).
HPD got my cellphone back to me a few months later, but then the display started
rotting.

Features I miss from earlier gizmos:

* voice dialing (NokiaWearableGizmo had this)

* one-button access to this phone's phone number (NokiaWearableGizmo)

* search (PilotWearableGizmo)

* integrated calendar/todo (on the PsionWearableGizmo, you can
make a todo into an appointment and vice versa. I also liked
the side-by-side view of todo categories)

* text zoom (PsionWearableGizmo)

* timezone support (I gather datebook 5 on the PilotWearableGizmo has timezone
support, though actually, I never used it. The timezone storage and
UI in DebianPackage:evolution is really great, I can tell you
from first-hand experience.)

* IRDA (I used this on the PilotWearableGizmo extensively, though
it was an exception to the DebianLinuxJustWorks rule. The sidekick has an IR port; I just
haven't found any support for using it.)

other quirks:

* Audio interference with PC, car. (on net access?)

**21Oct2003**: sidekick is in trouble:
treo 270 is free-after-rebates and t-mobile offers flat-rate data.

Some more wishes... Wiki integration... Post by email?

Aim screen names in address book.

Mapping software. SVG maps?

argh! really frustrating that I can't connect
calendar events, address book entries, and todo items.
The dentist office called and proposed a **13Jan**
appointment; I just want to make a record of
that call that

- shows up on my todo list, since I told them
I'd call back

- shows up in the address book, since I got
contact info during the call

- shows up on the calendar, since they
proposed an appointment.

**6Jun2003**: XMLRPC interface! woohoo!
user data calls

**Feb 2003**: on my TAG ftf trip, I forgot
the charger. built a "usb charger":http://home.earthlink.net/~gregston/sidekick_usb_power/
from parts at radio shack.

**20Jan2003**: wishlist... for hipAgent... move
pictures: copy picture content, date, title/caption...
hmm... to where? to WEBDAV properties? jpg comments in
RDF? hmm...

**3Dec**: got it!

CueCat data: from fedex package
Type: 128
Code: 36621040110000036232410301312012

from amazon order

Type: 128
Code: Seeqw12769

from box: pcs phone kit
Type: 128
Code: 610214608628

handset
Type: I28
Code: 010106000271828

ok, registered... danc at something... off to t-mobile to
see what's up there... hmm... can't log in. wrote to customer service;
reference number 021203-000695. Eventually changed passwords and such a few times
and got in.

**29Nov**: Ordered the thing. Hoping to get it in time for my
trip to San Antonio next week. Amazon estimated 30Nov-2Dec ship date; I'm planning
to leave 3Dec. Keep your fingers crossed!

I called the local voice stream store; they stock it, but their price is $300.
I got a $220 quote from t-mobile customer service, via handset upgrade
(I've been a customer for a while).
Then, after investigating the amazon deal a bit, I called customer
service again and Chris (#122501) told me that I could get
these web site prices even though I'm an existing customer.
So I went with the amazon deal.

* user reviews at cnet

* "danger info":http://www.dangerinfo.com/ -- news etc.

* "procmail info":http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/hiptop.html

* "Danger Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick Software":http://hipme.com/software/ -- incl. perl script for calendar access.
"python AIM lib":http://www.jamwt.com/Py-TOC/

These sharp Zaurus linux PDAs look pretty cool.
But I sure like having just one gizmo.

From connolly Tue Nov 9 03:23:25 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:23:25 +0000
Subject: MIT holidays
Message-ID: <20041109032325+0000@dm93.org>

Mary got a palmpilot, so we're moving the family calendar from paper to the web. So mit_holidays.ics is more useful now.

From connolly Tue Nov 9 19:15:45 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:15:45 +0000
Subject: MIT holidays
Message-ID: <20041109191545+0000@dm93.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041109032325+0000@dm93.org>

mit_holidays.ics is derived by machine from an
official MIT calendar. See also: notes on the conversion

From connolly Thu Nov 11 17:29:33 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:29:33 +0000
Subject: Nokia 6800 for Mary? Or Sony Ericsson?
Message-ID: <20041111172933+0000@dm93.org>

Went to the nearby t-mobile store to pick up a sidekick-II. They were out, but I saw the Nokia 6800 which looks like what I want for Mary: a gizmo that works as a phone and a calendar and does IM.

Did some research, found...
"Sadly, it does not work with Apple's iSync. Given that no other Series 40 Nokia device does work with iSync, I'm not holding my breath. If they can't get the 6310i working with iSync, I can't imagine they're breaking their skulls open trying to make a 6810/6820 work with it. That doesn't make it right, however. I'm still beside myself. The Series 60 devices have a completely different method of communicating via mRouter. I can understand that making mRouter work on a Mac OS X workstation is easy, since it's developed by Symbian anyway. But I'm confused why Nokia doesn't just use IrMC over Bluetooth like Sony Ericsson does for their handsets to make Series 40 viable for Mac users. True, you can use the EDGE or GPRS connection with your Mac via the Bluetooth connection to the device. You can even send/receive SMS in the AddressBook. But if you can't sync your contacts and appointments to it, it makes it awfully hard to justify. If you're a Mac user that doesn't want a full-blown Smartphone, stick to Sony Ericsson for now. (I can't believe I just had to say that!) Sony Ericsson can't tell Mac users to go pound sand, they need all the users they can get." -- mobilewhack

From connolly Fri Nov 12 02:45:14 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:45:14 +0000
Subject: sidekick II
Message-ID: <20041112024514+0000@dm93.org>

Called around and found another t-mobile store that had the sidekick II in stock; around
$200 after rebates and such.

Works nice! The camera has more pixels, so it might be useful for so
mething, but it's still not good for taking normal photographs.
The speakerphone seems to work.

They moved the arrow key wheel from right thumb to left; that'll take some getting used to.
And the semi is alt-G now; the key left of l is del; they moved enter down.
ah... but you can make a pipe (|) now; ssh was kinda useless without it.

The web browser groks intra-page links; they fixed that
bug.
The addressbook accomodates photos now, so I get a picture of Mary when she calls me
Otherwise, it's just like a normal sidekick. i.e. awesome :)

>From the flash demos of the nokia 6800 and the other "IM phones",
they look horribly klunky in comparison to the sidekick.

From connolly Fri Nov 12 22:14:06 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:14:06 +0000
Subject: sidekick II not receiving email
Message-ID: <20041112221406+0000@dm93.org>

Reported the problem to t-mobiel: "Thank you! Your case, number 041112-001284, was successfully submitted. A Customer Service Representative will contact you within 24 hours."

From connolly Wed Dec 15 14:49:07 +0000 2004
From: connolly
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:49:07 +0000
Subject: multi-day events
Message-ID: <20041215144907+0000@dm93.org>

In iCalendar, all-day event may start on one day and end on another. The sidekick groks this, but the palmpilot doesn't. A work-around is to use a daily repeating event. But I haven't updated my expense reporting scripts to grok. hmm.

From connolly Tue Jan 11 19:24:31 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:24:31 +0000
Subject: WSDL for PDA driving directions
Message-ID: <20050111192431+0000@dm93.org>

The sidekick knows how to look up street addresses from the addressbook in mapquest. I actually prefer yahoo's implementation; they share an interface... hmm... ToDo: study WSDL for things like choice of driving direction services on a PDA

From connolly Tue Jan 11 19:26:03 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:26:03 +0000
Subject: Norm got one too!
Message-ID: <20050111192603+0000@dm93.org>

Norm got a sidekick and he's now asking me questions about all my little hacks: dangerSync.py, aimbridge.py, etc. Maybe I'll write some docs...

From connolly Fri Feb 4 21:35:09 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:35:09 +0000
Subject: email interruptions
Message-ID: <20050204213509+0000@dm93.org>

My gizmo raises an interrup when I get personal mail. At work, I get my mail when I'm done with one thing and ready to start another. I think I'd like to poll for my personal mail too. Hmm.

From connolly Sat Feb 5 02:20:09 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:20:09 +0000
Subject: linux on the sidekick
Message-ID: <20050205022009+0000@dm93.org>

uClinux on the Danger Hiptop. Is that crazy or what?

From connolly Tue Mar 8 22:12:19 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:12:19 +0000
Subject: t-mobile/danger problems hit home
Message-ID: <20050308221219+0000@dm93.org>

I heard about this break-in...

* Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Jan 11 2005 7:43PM

and I heard about the Paris Hilton stuff. But I wasn't worried; I don't store anything *that* sensitive in my gizmo (er... or do I? hmm...). Plus, I audit my credit card statements and bank statements religiously.

But now I'm in Minneapolis for an IETF meeting and I can't sync the schedule on my gizmo with the rest of my world. Ouch! Now it hurts me personally. And I'm not alone... Danger inadvertantly cuts off Sidekick data
Posted Mar 8, 2005, 9:40 AM ET by Peter Rojas

signalstrength collects outage reports. Who knows if it did any good, but it felt constructive to report my outage there.

From connolly Tue Mar 8 22:36:29 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:36:29 +0000
Subject: series 60 symbian stuff looks tasty
Message-ID: <20050308223629+0000@dm93.org>

python for series 60

From connolly Sun May 15 06:00:41 +0000 2005
From: connolly
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 06:00:41 +0000
Subject: argh! Electra ate another one!
Message-ID: <20050515060041+0000@dm93.org>

I set my gizmo on the table in the back yard while I played soccer with Kyle and Brennan. I was comfortably watching a game on TV half an hour later when Mary said, "Is that your electronic gizmo in the grass?" Yes, it was, and it was chewed up. Electra looked really guilty when I picked it up. I was so mad... mostly at myself; I should know better by now... but it was her fault too and I let her know. She came wagging up to me a few minutes later and I yelled "GIT!" It wasn't until after dinner that I let her out of the dog house.

Hmm... interesting... in the gogogle ads on this page, there's one for a "free" sidekick... I have to take up 2 offers... maybe a month trial of blockbuster online and an entertainment book. I wonder if/when I would get the thing. Before my Amsterdam trip? And how to I connect it to my t-mobile account? Maybe I'd better just pay t-mobile the $70 handset replacement fee and be sure?]]>

MaJoStudio

2004-07-29 15:34:23 64.126.89.30 connolly

**29Jul2004**: Amazon is pretty smart... they have
a "sell your stuff" button where they lists stuff you bought there
and help you sell it. Since we got an iPod mind, we don't
need this
rio 32mb backpack
any more. Any takers?

**March2004**: On my Feb2004 trip to BOS, I wanted to show
some colleagues how good GarageBand sounds. TimBL has GarageBand
on his laptop, but the built-in speakers didn't do it justice.
Then he plugged in some powered speakers and WOW! So I've
been checking out speaker prices and such since then.
This week I got a 5 P.c flat panel speaker system for $30 at target.
distributed by Jasco Products.
UPACode 030878980234.

**20Dec2003**: OO extras: labels
includes a CD stomper template. It worked! yeah DebianPackage:openoffice.org, DebianPackage:hpoj, DebianPackage:cups.

PescoPrinter is a new HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One; it's pretty nifty.
It doesn't print scrapbook pages, which are 13" wide,
but it's a big step up from the Epson C40UX that
came free with mmac.

**21Jan2003**: Epson Stylus Color 1520 prints on wide paper and gets 3 penguins from the linux printing site.

**Jun 2003**: We're looking for a firewire disk (got it sometime before **6Dec2003**. not sure what to do with it yet).
What's the rule of thumb? 1GB for a minute of video?
What's a competitive price?
$400 for 250GB, $260 for 160GB at microcenter.

**21Sep2003**: picked up a 200GB IDE
Western Digital
WD2000JB
with 3 year warrantee at SAM's for $160. UPACode 718037104461.

Not sure whether to stick it in DirkMachine
or stick it in a firewire enclosure for the iMac...

backup strategies... ConfidentialityVersusAvailability
Hmm... Bytecc ME-320F for $42.

**3Oct2003** Ordered a BYTECC ME-320F
for $42 + $8 shipping at NetPCshopper/yahoo.
**8Oct2003** got it today: UPACode 837281003211.

Wild... this enclosure was made in china by who knows who... there's no brand name
on the enclosure nore the box it came in... OEM'd by BYTECC,
sold by netpcshopper, brokered by yahoo, and shipped by UPS
and my only contact with any of them was via the net.

The disk "just works" with mmac
(ok, well, actually, disk utility hung the first time I tried to partition the disk.
But the problem disappeared on the 2nd try).
But it's noisy, so we'll probably turn it on only when
we need it or something. And you have to remember to unmount it.
(hmm... StudentOfMacOsX question: is the OS X filesystem journaled?) Not really "on-line". Hmm...
servers and clients are really, really different.

At least I learned how to wake up mmac remotely... maybe...
(StudentOfMacOsX).

Hmm... what about replacing the 60GB internal disk with this big one?
I know apple doesn't condone this... and this article
iMac G4 - Exchanging Optical Drive, Hard Disk, RAM
By Stefan Horn
Written 7/13/2002 shows how tricky it is.

@@iMovie 3 problem report.

**18Mary2003**: playing with iPhoto 2...
hmm... iPhoto slide shows... in SMIL,
using AppleScript? seems it's been done.

**18Jan2003**: got the camera a week or so ago... off
to "canon registration":http://www.prodreg.com/canon

not sure if they KeepPostRecords, so keeping a copy here...
s/n 102506103855. date of purchase: 29 Dec 2002.

UPACode: 013P0010527

Gee... they ask a lot of questions... and they asked
for my email address but don't seem to use it to send
me a copy of the registration. No privacy policy :-{
email options are opt-out :-{ need WebMasterClues.

**29Dec2002**: choosing a digital video camera.
cnet's editors choice for an affordable camera
is the "Canon ZR40":http://www.canondv.com/zr40/f.html . At ~$400 street price, we've
decided we can afford it.

**get the accessory pack**? "The included rechargeable lithium battery has a rather short life span: just 1 hour, 15 minutes when you use the LCD." -- cnet review

mini dv tapes are about as cheap locally. ($30 for 3 at "circuit city":http://www.circuitcity.com/ )

where to buy it? wasn't beach camera recommended by photo.net? nope; on the contrary.
We went with digital direct, one of cnet's picks. They had the best accessory pack deal.

**26 Oct 2002** DV format technology article bookmarked.

@@more on ebay victories...

Problem: LegacyVideo, LegacyAudio.

video projects: EighthGradeVideo, MarysSecondVideo, MushcakeVideo,

iApp Power Play
by Derrick Story
12/03/2002
]]>

In contrast to the left-brained PerfectOffice where Dan works, the MaJoStudio is where Mary puts her creative talents to work.

Dan does tech support; he's now a StudentOfMacOsX . Mary is a shutterbug; Dan hopes for the FilmKiller .

29Jul2004 : Amazon is pretty smart... they have a "sell your stuff" button where they lists stuff you bought there and help you sell it. Since we got an iPod mind, we don't need this rio 32mb backpack any more. Any takers?

March2004 : On my Feb2004 trip to BOS, I wanted to show some colleagues how good GarageBand sounds. TimBL has GarageBand on his laptop, but the built-in speakers didn't do it justice. Then he plugged in some powered speakers and WOW! So I've been checking out speaker prices and such since then. This week I got a 5 P.c flat panel speaker system for $30 at target. distributed by Jasco Products . UPACode 030878980234.

20Dec2003 : OO extras: labels includes a CD stomper template. It worked! yeah DebianPackage:openoffice.org, DebianPackage:hpoj, DebianPackage:cups.

PescoPrinter is a new HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One ; it's pretty nifty. It doesn't print scrapbook pages, which are 13" wide, but it's a big step up from the Epson C40UX that came free with mmac.

21Jan2003 : Epson Stylus Color 1520 prints on wide paper and gets 3 penguins from the linux printing site.

Jun 2003 : We're looking for a firewire disk (got it sometime before 6Dec2003 . not sure what to do with it yet). What's the rule of thumb? 1GB for a minute of video? What's a competitive price? $400 for 250GB, $260 for 160GB at microcenter.

21Sep2003 : picked up a 200GB IDE Western Digital WD2000JB with 3 year warrantee at SAM's for $160. UPACode 718037104461.

Not sure whether to stick it in DirkMachine or stick it in a firewire enclosure for the iMac...

backup strategies... ConfidentialityVersusAvailability Hmm... Bytecc ME-320F for $42 .

3Oct2003 Ordered a BYTECC ME-320F for $42 + $8 shipping at NetPCshopper/yahoo . 8Oct2003 got it today: UPACode 837281003211.

Wild... this enclosure was made in china by who knows who... there's no brand name on the enclosure nore the box it came in... OEM'd by BYTECC, sold by netpcshopper, brokered by yahoo, and shipped by UPS and my only contact with any of them was via the net.

The disk "just works" with mmac (ok, well, actually, disk utility hung the first time I tried to partition the disk. But the problem disappeared on the 2nd try). But it's noisy, so we'll probably turn it on only when we need it or something. And you have to remember to unmount it. (hmm... StudentOfMacOsX question: is the OS X filesystem journaled?) Not really "on-line". Hmm... servers and clients are really, really different.

At least I learned how to wake up mmac remotely... maybe... ( StudentOfMacOsX ).

Hmm... what about replacing the 60GB internal disk with this big one? I know apple doesn't condone this... and this article iMac G4 - Exchanging Optical Drive, Hard Disk, RAM By Stefan Horn Written 7/13/2002 shows how tricky it is.

@@iMovie 3 problem report.

18Mary2003 : playing with iPhoto 2... hmm... iPhoto slide shows... in SMIL, using AppleScript ? seems it's been done.

18Jan2003 : got the camera a week or so ago... off to canon registration

not sure if they KeepPostRecords , so keeping a copy here... s/n 102506103855. date of purchase: 29 Dec 2002.

UPACode : 013P0010527

Gee... they ask a lot of questions... and they asked for my email address but don't seem to use it to send me a copy of the registration. No privacy policy :-{ email options are opt-out :-{ need WebMasterClues .

29Dec2002 : choosing a digital video camera. cnet's editors choice for an affordable camera is the Canon ZR40 . At ~$400 street price, we've decided we can afford it.

get the accessory pack ? "The included rechargeable lithium battery has a rather short life span: just 1 hour, 15 minutes when you use the LCD.": cnet review

mini dv tapes are about as cheap locally. ($30 for 3 at circuit city )

where to buy it? wasn't beach camera recommended by photo.net? nope; on the contrary. We went with digital direct , one of cnet's picks. They had the best accessory pack deal.

26 Oct 2002 DV format technology article bookmarked.

@@more on ebay victories...

Problem: LegacyVideo , LegacyAudio .

video projects: EighthGradeVideo , MarysSecondVideo , MushcakeVideo ,

iApp Power Play by Derrick Story 12/03/2002

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

WebMasterTraining

2005-01-07 17:56:27 64.126.89.30 connolly

philg
 
 1st web conference: mundane stuff (on about page)
 
 
 see also:
 
 * W3C validator tips@@
 
 * useit.com explains over and over
 that keeping it simple is important.
 
 If you want to sell stuff online, Ebay
 is called "the perfect store" for a reason.
 If you want to do transactions under your own name/brand, consider
 yahoo small business solutions.
 Yahoo stores rocks. (beating the averages is an article that explains how it was built.)
 
 edd's friend who does local training
 
 notes from sidekick...
 
 
 hm... class for church?
 
 
 Is your child old enough to have an email account? Ask them: if you see "fill this out and we'll send you $1000" what would you do? I.e. Do they know when something is too good to be true?
 
 
 Usatoday 13Ag: lovesan virus
 
 GetNetWise.com (usa today 24Jul 2003)
 
 how the net spans the range of the human condition (80% of everything is drek... zipf happens... sex/death push technology)
 
 Integrity/accountability ... ManagingExpectations
 
 hmm... local community, i.e. less than public... email callback?
 
 
 **Jun 2003**: public DNS service...
 perhaps organize some stuff on YourOwnDomainName,
 ala GF DNS details
 (which is out of date). analogy with phone number portability, ... (refactor: InternetRealEstate)
 
 From connolly Wed Dec 22 20:50:27 +0000 2004
 From: connolly
 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:27 +0000
 Subject: Microsoft Visual Studio ate my high school's web site
 Message-ID: <20041222205027+0000@dm93.org>
 
 My high school, Bishop Miege is all excited about thier web site now. Ugh... flash, fixed-size display, javascript menus, text-as-images. <meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0" name="GENERATOR"> Ugh!
 
 From connolly Fri Jan 7 17:56:27 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:56:27 +0000
 Subject: matt on picking a web host
 Message-ID: <20050107175627+0000@dm93.org>
 
 How to pick a Web host (Web, Thu 1 Jul 2004 14:19 PT [509]). cpanel, yup.]]>

be WaiHappy

"Money is nice. Bandwidth is nice. Graphic design is occasionally nice. But your Web site will suck if you see it as a pimple on the butt of something much larger.": philg

1st web conference: mundane stuff (on about page)

MailStorePuzzle

2004-08-18 01:20:27 64.126.89.30 connolly

**17Aug2004**: SonyVaioJammer died... ToMacOrNotToMac... what
 mailer to use? support for
 [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ mozdev.org - enigmail: index]
 in DebianPackage:mozilla-thunderbird is nice... but thunderbird
 fails the IntegrityIsJobOne test for editing/knowledge-capture
 tools.
 
 
 nearby thoughts to be integrated:
 
 
 
 * mid_proxy.py , imap_sort.py
 A Knowledge Base about Internet Mail,
 djb's notes on rfc822 (* grendel sources; jwz's notes on rfc822)
 
 * timbl's protocol/smotocol rant, dom's recent mid dereference deely
 
 * "Web/News/Mail Integration":http://www.w3.org/Propagation/MailNewsWeb.html Sep 96.... MIME/WWW/SGML thread from June 1992
 
 * ConfidentialityVersusAvailability ...
 lots of copies keeps stuff safe... gerald's "archive all my mail" procmail recipe.
 
 
 Sandro recommends "this mailer":http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/
 @@jwz law of software "all software evolves 'till it can do email" or something like that.
 
 
 **25Jul2003**: switched to qmail for outgoing mail, to route
 around ssh/mit problems (cf #debian-20030725.txt)
 
 
 
 ToDo: spam-protect dm93.org so I can publish my email address (in /byDan)
 
 **3Mar2003**: based on spam conference talk,
 trying
 "popfile":http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
 ... how to change port? aha! -ui_port from "FAQ":http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=63137
 
 I read the source enough to try --ui_port, but that didn't work.
 
 Hmm... now... does it grok APOP auth?
 
 syphleed log says "Required APOP timestamp not found in greeting"
 
 **17Apr2003** found
 notes from debian imapd maintainers from an advogato diary. DebianPackage:dovecot seems to be the way to go.
 
 
]]>

how to handle mail in the PerfectOffice ... 24Oct2002: DebianPackage:courier-imap seems cool... maildir support, pretty lean. It wasn't completely obvious that I needed to do maildirmake Maildir until I read README.Debian. A little fidgety, but not bad.

@@INBOX contains folders and messges...

17Aug2004 : SonyVaioJammer died... ToMacOrNotToMac ... what mailer to use? support for [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ mozdev.org - enigmail: index] in DebianPackage:mozilla-thunderbird is nice... but thunderbird fails the IntegrityIsJobOne test for editing/knowledge-capture tools.

nearby thoughts to be integrated:

mid_proxy.py , imap_sort.py A Knowledge Base about Internet Mail , djb's notes on rfc822 (* grendel sources; jwz's notes on rfc822)
timbl's protocol/smotocol rant, dom's recent mid dereference deely
Web/News/Mail Integration Sep 96.... MIME/WWW/SGML thread from June 1992
ConfidentialityVersusAvailability ... lots of copies keeps stuff safe... gerald's "archive all my mail" procmail recipe.

Sandro recommends this mailer @@jwz law of software "all software evolves 'till it can do email" or something like that.

25Jul2003 : switched to qmail for outgoing mail, to route around ssh/mit problems (cf #debian-20030725.txt)

ToDo : spam-protect dm93.org so I can publish my email address (in /byDan)

3Mar2003 : based on spam conference talk, trying popfile ... how to change port? aha! -ui_port from FAQ

I read the source enough to try --ui_port, but that didn't work.

Hmm... now... does it grok APOP auth?

syphleed log says "Required APOP timestamp not found in greeting"

17Apr2003 found notes from debian imapd maintainers from an advogato diary. DebianPackage:dovecot seems to be the way to go.

ZWIKIMIDSECTION

LegacyVideo

2005-02-07 03:50:46 64.126.89.30 connolly


 **6May2003**: another nifty slashdot article.
 "Honestly, 720x540 is the minimum acceptable digital analogue of the NTSC spec."
 -- a comment.
 
 
 **28Dec2002**: tried a Belkin USB Videobus II
 (F5U208-MAC. UPACode: 722868357583
 7-22868-35758-3).
 "Belkin tech support FAQ":http://web.belkin.com/support/faq_qa.asp?pid=112&cid=1#507
 claims it works in OS X, but I couldn't get any picture.
 I booted OS 9; it sorta worked, but I sound was
 greyed out in the video capture software (even though
 I could hear the sound from the tape thru the speakers).
 
 Hmm... "ffmpeg for OS X":http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8988
 2002-12-26 version 0.0.4h
 
 
 **16Nov2002**
 
 
 
 This bttv card works pretty well as a "v4l":http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ device.
 
 ffmpeg@@ groks well enough. Hmm... can't seem
 to do realtime mpeg encoding at decent size/framerate.
 
 320x240 is the best size I'm gonna get, per
 this "linux video tutorial":http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html
 
 Hmm... "zapping":http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ looks
 interesting: "# Realtime MPEG recording." Well, it
 seems to work well as a viewer... now, how to get it
 to record? hmm... mpeg plug-in doesn't seem to be part
 of DebianPackage:zapping.
 
 Hmm... this "making movies":http://www.netjunki.org/articles/makingmovieswithlinux.html
 article describes about what I want to do, except
 (1) I'm not using firewire to get the video into
 the machine, and (2) to I really have to do that
 split/encode/multiples stuff?
 
 
 hmm... back to mjpegtools...
 
 hmm.. this sorta worked, but it's b/w:
 
 lavrec --software-encoding --input T -g 320x240 game.avi
 
 hmm... trying "dvr":http://dvr.sourceforge.net/ again... I
 sure like the interactive configuration, with preview...
 bummer... craps out when I say "go", looking for lame
 libraries... ok, install that...
 
 "Livid":http://www.au.linuxvideo.org/user/support.html
 
 in #livid, somebody recommended transcode; failed
 to build, but I found debian packages...
 ooh! cool "diagram of formats/encodings":http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/intro.html#about
 
 Hmm... a "howto":http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VCR-HOWTO-4.html
 
 another clue from #livid: rmmod bttv && modprobe bttv gbuffers=4
 
 From connolly Mon Feb 7 03:50:46 +0000 2005
 From: connolly
 Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 03:50:46 +0000
 Subject: mencoder opts
 Message-ID: <20050207035046+0000@dm93.org>
 
 tried dvr... nope... freevo looks scary... found something that said it uses mplayer's mencoder as the low level. tried FreevoAptDebian. installed it from source. Got this working::
 
 mencoder -tv driver=v4l:input=3:forceaudio:outfmt=i420:norm=ntsc:width=320:height=220 tv:// -vc rawi420 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o movie4.avi
]]>

For the MaJoStudio , trying to get video from our Sony Handycam video8 into iMovie... we went for a digital camcorder.

6May2003 : another nifty slashdot article. "Honestly, 720x540 is the minimum acceptable digital analogue of the NTSC spec." -- a comment .

28Dec2002 : tried a Belkin USB Videobus II (F5U208-MAC. UPACode : 722868357583 7-22868-35758-3). Belkin tech support FAQ claims it works in OS X, but I couldn't get any picture. I booted OS 9; it sorta worked, but I sound was greyed out in the video capture software (even though I could hear the sound from the tape thru the speakers).

Hmm... ffmpeg for OS X 2002-12-26 version 0.0.4h

16Nov2002

This bttv card works pretty well as a v4l device.

ffmpeg@@ groks well enough. Hmm... can't seem to do realtime mpeg encoding at decent size/framerate.

320x240 is the best size I'm gonna get, per this linux video tutorial

Hmm... zapping looks interesting: "# Realtime MPEG recording." Well, it seems to work well as a viewer... now, how to get it to record? hmm... mpeg plug-in doesn't seem to be part of DebianPackage:zapping.

Hmm... this making movies article describes about what I want to do, except (1) I'm not using firewire to get the video into the machine, and (2) to I really have to do that split/encode/multiples stuff?

hmm... back to mjpegtools...

hmm.. this sorta worked, but it's b/w:

lavrec --software-encoding --input T -g 320x240 game.avi

hmm... trying dvr again... I sure like the interactive configuration, with preview... bummer... craps out when I say "go", looking for lame libraries... ok, install that...

Livid

in #livid, somebody recommended transcode; failed to build, but I found debian packages... ooh! cool diagram of formats/encodings

Hmm... a howto

another clue from #livid: rmmod bttv && modprobe bttv gbuffers=4 ZWIKIMIDSECTION

comments:

mencoder opts --connolly, Mon, 07 Feb 2005 03:50:46 +0000 reply

tried dvr... nope... freevo looks scary... found something that said it uses mplayer 's mencoder as the low level. tried FreevoAptDebian . installed it from source. Got this working:

 mencoder -tv driver=v4l:input=3:forceaudio:outfmt=i420:norm=ntsc:width=320:height=220 tv:// -vc rawi420 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o movie4.avi

ZopeWiki

OpenOfficeInstall

ManagingWithTheWeb

PsionWearableGizmo

OPKSNet

ManagingExpectations

AmayaZopeNotes

HyperSchool

GoodbyDamon

MarysFirstCdMix

MichaelCrichtonBooks

ScriptureNotes

BibleBook:Genesis

BibleBook:Exodus

BibleBook:Leviticus

BibleBook:Job

BibleBook:Isaiah

BibleBook:Psalms

BibleBook:Jonah

BibleBook:Malachi

BibleBook:Matthew

BibleBook:Mark

BibleBook:Luke

BibleBook:John

BibleBook:Acts

BibleBook:Romans

BibleBook:1COR

BibleBook:Hebrews

BibleBook:Revelation

Chronological notes

MarysSecondVideo

PaperlessOffice

HFSOnLinux

HelpPage

What is this ?

How to navigate

How to edit

How to link and create new pages

For more help..

WinFourLinOnDebian

AlwaysOnInternet

CoolestBasement

SonyVaioJammer

CivicDuty

BrowserChecklist

FractalAccounting

JosefDietl

DesktopTweaks

More tweaks

MushcakeVideo

RadioWatchGizmo

AboutThisWiki

FrontPage

InternetRealEstate

MunchkinVideo

TheOriginalHypertext

Thoughts on Annotations

Church Webmaster

IanJacobs

BibleGateway

TravelCheckList

ChristmasCardRitual

BustedFinger

WebMasterClues

ToDo

KidsMac

ZopeTweaks

VideoPresence

Description:

WikiPedia

PatternsWiki

ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

PerfectOffice

PileOfOwnersManuals

DebianLinuxJustWorks

PescoPrinter

RecentChanges

DebianBug

KeepPostRecords

DirkMachine