/dev/thoughts

The Blog Move

2009-10-18T06:08:00.003-04:00

Well, it's that time of year again. Time I move the blog, officially, according to this blog. Are you anxious to see the new and awesome /dev/thoughts? Have you been dieing to see it? Are you really, really interested?You're not, but I'm still posting the link. You guys have done a bad job at even keeping up 1 comment a post ;-). I'll just have to write something more interesting.So, this is the

HLB Studios is up!

2009-09-10T16:37:00.003-04:00

I haven't been in the technical world as much lately (although I have been slowly shifting Icadyptes to X.org 7.5ish lately), but my latest project (not really mine) has been working with Heather on getting her art studio going. She is extremely talented in drawing and pottery, and can make art even out of cucumbers (I'm serious, she's amazing). Her current main expertise in art surrounds duct

Major Updates

2009-04-12T20:40:00.006-04:00

Looks like it has been a while since I last posted. I've mostly disconnected from my usual routine, but think I have a very good excuse for once. Normally, in the same time frame (about a month and a half) I would have also probably rebuilt the toolchain on Icadyptes twice, hoping for fixes and improvements resulting in smaller and faster binaries (maybe a little compulsive on that front :-/ ). I

Questioning The Status Quo: Methodology And Reasoning For Origins Research

2009-02-26T11:20:00.012-05:00

I felt that I should do one last post before wrapping up my origins research. I haven't discussed much about potential methodology for providing proof of Creation or Evolution beyond a reasonable doubt (100% proofs on these topics are not possible). While someone could probably make a reasonable decision based on a gut feeling of the summation of evidence after enough research, it wouldn't hurt

Stereotypical Female Pseudo-Shopping Phenomena

2009-02-23T11:36:00.005-05:00

I recently had a interesting enlightenment. Most of you are familiar with the stereotype that women like to shop excessively. Statistically, the stereotype does seem to hold up. What I didn't know, was that they usually don't do normal shopping. I had been exposed to a form of pseudo-shopping before (I forget when), and again recently. This pseudo-shopping involves going through various stores

Requirements

2009-02-23T11:35:00.007-05:00

I felt that I should write this post before finishing my quest on origins. It is of a different nature than most of my other current posts, but as you can tell, I felt that I should write it.Amongst my normal postings consisting of geekery, random pictures, general rants, and Creation/Evolution questions, this is somewhat in its own category. This post is about the opposite sex, but before

Updates

2009-02-20T18:04:00.005-05:00

Seeing as my last post was twelve days ago, I guess I'm not doing too badly. I'll hopefully get around to a second blog post today as well.I wanted to write about a couple things before writing a post on another topic. The first is that I'm back in the 21st century. I still drive a car that is six years older than me (and is a manual, which is unfortunately becoming culturally dated in the US),

Links

2009-02-08T11:48:00.002-05:00

I thought I would do a quick post of some links. No guarantees as to whether or not you will find any of them interesting.http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.htmlhttp://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.htmlhttp://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htmhttp://xkcd.com/538/http://

Being content

2009-02-07T15:53:00.002-05:00

I've edited the previous post a few times but never could get it to seem close to "just right". It's good enough, but should be taken with a grain of salt. The post has a lot of unsorted in-depth thoughts scattered about, and should address the topic more properly. I don't think I'm as analytical as the post makes it sound, but I do like to lean on the edge of over analyzing for this topic so I'm

My quest for the truth

2009-01-29T18:50:00.011-05:00

Life encompasses a plethora of topics and details. It is simply not possible to completely understand all aspects of it, so many ignore their intuition and logic in the majority of fields. If one chooses to not become informed on a topic, he/she often resigns their needs and questions to an "expert" in the field, or ignores it completely and lives with the consequences. Of course, one can often

Icadyptes 0.2 is out!

2009-01-15T21:14:00.002-05:00

Well, it took three (two, by local time) more days than I hoped, but after ages it is finally released :-). For those who are not aware, Icadyptes is my Arch Linux fork that I've probably been spending too much time on. I'm exhausted and will be cutting this post short, but check out icadyptes.org if you are interested. Many thanks to all who made this possible :-).Cheers!

Pictures Galore

2009-01-04T18:27:00.003-05:00

This is the hopefully less boring post I said I would submit today. By the way, Music and Lyrics is a great movie. This is a rather random post, but the cats are at least not too disturbing.My cats:Patches:And Panther:Panther eating the left overs of my salmon skin.Magnets are awesome.I should do some lolcat pictures, but these are cute enough as it is.Metric for the win.Panther seems to enjoy

Medical Woes

2009-01-04T15:40:00.004-05:00

Well, it looks like I missed posting on yesterday. To make up for it I'll be doing two postings today. This will likely be the more boring one.As it turns out, I'm actually not some invincible being in human form. I've accumulated enough medical problems to want to ask for some advice and diagnostics. Please write some comments if you have any ideas.I'll start with some sub-stellar pictures. They

Windows is a pain

2009-01-02T09:34:00.006-05:00

Well, it seems that I've managed to do a sequential posting within a day of the last one, hopefully I can keep this up. Time for a rant.I got an on-the-side small contract job to fix up a Nice Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop burdened by Windows 2000 and minions of Symantec, HP Photo/*, Canon/*, and bunches of bloatware. The owner wants me to prepare it for his son who is in college. Normally I don't do

Happy New Years!

2009-01-01T09:37:00.003-05:00

Sorry for taking so long to post again. Eventually I will deprecate this blog and get one hosted on my VPS (or maybe host it at home).I may try to get in the habit of making a post a day, even if it is small. Doubt it would typically be anything as interesting as a Slashdot-capable 486, but it should suffice.I got two kittens, Patches and Panther. Their

Summarizing the past while

2008-08-04T15:36:00.005-04:00

Well, again I have belated my posting for too long. Perhaps if I got in a regimine of posting daily (even with small posts) it wouldn't be so hard to allocate the time. As usual I have been extremely busy with Icadyptes, which has been coming quite well. I finally got a VPS with Rapidxen. They were out of slots in Chicago, so I had to go with Fremont, CA (higher latency from where I live). Their

486 can survive the Digg Effect, but not Digg's broken algorithm

2008-07-11T12:46:00.013-04:00

UPDATE: The Digg submission to this article hit the front page! Woohoo! Thank you all so much! The original 486 submission is getting a good deal of diggs in the process.Josh Nelson, who wrote a related article that I referred to further down in this post, gave me this comment to add:"If Digg wanted to minimize the speculation that they are censoring stories based on their content, they could do

Status update

2008-06-26T13:26:00.003-04:00

Lately I have been working on my 486 on Slashdot project. I am waiting for 4 EISA ethernet cards to arrive, but I have mostly written the webapp for it to run. A new version of WebLua has been released. It now runs on FastCGI, but currently has less features (overall). It is not recommended for production use, and has a few incompatible changes with WebLua 0.2. Incredibly, it has been over a year

The Silent GNU

2008-06-21T18:22:00.006-04:00

Back when I first started with Linux I compiled everything by hand, and originally did not know that I could easilly download these things called "packages". My first major compiling experience was on a 200Mhz Pentium Pro. Compiling my customized 2.4.x kernel with Openwall's patches would often take over 3 hours, but I loved that box (it was my first server, and PPro's are a force to be reckoned

The Slashdot Capable i486

2008-06-21T17:05:00.014-04:00

EDIT: I started to write this post on 2008-06-21. Blogger says that I posted then, but I actually just posted this yesterday: 2008-06-30.Since well over a year ago I have had a dream to setup a 486 capable of being Slashdotted, Dugg, Reddit'ed, or being put on any major news site. I wanted it to have some useful dynamic content, be accessible over IPv6, and have as few hacks as possible, while

Overly belated post

2008-06-01T18:30:00.004-04:00

Well, following with the current trend, it has been far too long since I last posted. I really ought to post here more often; sorry :-(.Many things have happened that I could write about, but I will start with the oldest event that is in need of being blogged.But before I do that, I will let this picture do my ranting on why we need net neutrality:While many people show sorrow towards images

Linkage

2008-03-02T19:19:00.002-05:00

Note: I wrote most of this yesterday, so things are a day off.Well, today my post is that of links. All point to domain names resolvable via ARPANET, OpenNIC, and other such DNS roots. They all point to HTTP, so in other words, you should be able to click and go to the webpages I am referring to.However, before I link you to various sites and rant, I shall type about my day. I went hiking with a

eleutherNet: Internet for the free

2008-02-15T19:55:00.010-05:00

At long last, eleutherNet has been through enough testing and work that it can be publicised.A while ago I had another project fall into my unofficial "To-Do" list. With all of the NSA spying through AT&T and other companies, Comcast's automatic torrent disconnecting, ISP port blocking (usually just port 25 by most ISP's), and general demand for caution feeling that the present-day internet

Leaving the 21st century without Facebook

2008-01-21T20:08:00.001-05:00

EDIT: Emil Steiner of the Washington Post interviewed me about this and blogged about it.Once again, I'm sorry for not posting in so long. It's not like I have a very large blog reading base. However, I should definately post more often. It is also nice to just get my thoughts out at times.As you may have noticed, my last post was titled "Joining the 21st century with Facebook". This post regards

Joining the 21st century with Facebook

2007-11-13T16:26:00.000-05:00

A few days ago, I did something radical. I love to have my communications via IM or email, and like to keep my blog easily accessible via an RSS feed. However, it seems the world is going past me on this. No comments on this blog ever (will you be the first?), no social emails from people I don't already know, and only occasionally somone adds me as an IM contact (and usually not refered by my

Distribution Numero Dos

2007-11-08T21:45:00.000-05:00

Hola,Today, after quite a few hours of work (spread between weeks, not just today :-) ) I give to *.*.*.* (sorry, no IPv6 here) the Icadyptes Development System ISO. I doubt this would even be a mere possibility if it wasn't for all of the code that has been published, debates I have had, and support I have gotten.Zenserver turned out to be more of a Slackware style led distribution. It has

Hiking, waterfalls, and lots of driving

2007-10-27T22:21:00.000-04:00

Hola el mundo,Sorry for the amount of time it has taken me to get to writing this next post. My today was good. The morning was mostly just a combination of shopping and driving. The afternoon was a long trip to Turtle Back Falls to hike and see the view. I got to drive 2+ hours in the afternoon and a bit in the morning. Driving has been quite enjoyable; I think I would greatly enjoy a full

Big announcement

2007-10-02T22:02:00.000-04:00

I have a rather large announcement, regarding Zenwalk and slightly Zenserver. Read http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php?topic=11370.0 if you are interested. This is actually not just "big", it's quite huge for me.I need to get going, sleep calls. Sorry for the lack and shortness of posts.Cheers,

Another post

2007-09-27T22:11:00.000-04:00

I have for you, another posting. Not a super eventful day overall. I woke up quite tired, and can barely type this post as of now :-). I live a street width from the Echo Mountain Inn, where my dad works at. The inn is over 100 years old and has quite the selection of junk and antiques. I went over when they were cleaning out one of the rooms and managed to get a ceramic vacuum tube :-D. Reminds

Two days, two posts

2007-09-19T22:24:00.000-04:00

If I post this before 24:00, this will be my first second posting in two days in a very long time :-). Tomorow, Hendersonville will have a new danger. I am lifted of my permit's driving hour restrictions, as it will have been my 6th month with the permit :-). My driving has been coming well, and I'm quite happy to have gotten my permit immediately on my 15th birthday. I would like to get parralel

First post, in too long

2007-09-18T21:05:00.001-04:00

go-beyond.org has just had a few changes. I had it mostly as a very inactive blog that more served as a downtime indicator than anything else :-). The server does much more than host that website however, it's the main development bed for Zenserver among many other things. I've released a new version of Bluag. It's mostly just a bugfix release, and I'm going to be putting the project aside for a

First Post

2006-12-22T19:39:00.000-05:00

Hey,This is my first post (of hopefully many) in this blog. I have lots of things in queue to put on it, such as: a DIY class A amplifier, ductape laptop, a laptop destroyed with fireworks, DIY desk+chair, and a few other projects I have done. For the moment, enjoy this picture. I used to do some strange, violent, flash animations - this is one of them.Thanks for reading this, and come back soon