Sharing thoughts that no one will read…
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I’m a Phone Weenie
OK, I admit it. Rob Page, CEO of Zope Corporation officially coined me a phone weenie a number of weeks ago. He’s right. Of course, he also directly benefits from that feature in me, since I am the primary Asterisk PBX administrator at Zope Corp. 😉 So, what does it mean to be a phone…
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SPAM is back under control
I know, what a silly thing to say, and in public at that! Previously, I posted on my woes in having old SpamBayes filtering starting to fail and new procmail rules that I foolishly put in myself causing me to suffer from spam more than usual. I am happy to report that it’s back under…
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In Praise of SIDUX
I said I wouldn’t write about the old Dell Latitude L400 again, unless there was a “breakthrough”. Well, there hasn’t been one, so I’m not really writing about that machine (but of course, I really am) 😉 Really, this is more of a Linux posting than a specific laptop one… So, unless you’re a real…
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SPAM Problem Solved!
OK, not really. That was only a slight exaggeration 😉 Seriously, the specific spam problem that I complained about in my “technology is random” posting is what I’ve now solved. As I mentioned in that post, I had a combination of procmail rules and SpamBayes filtering, etc. I completely turned off the old SB filtering,…
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Debugging Firefox and WordPress 2.1 UI issues with Firebug – SUCCESS
I’m typing this to provoke the following error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open So far, not provoked, which means that I think I figured out what was killing me ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Before I declare victory, let me try to insert a link, which is what I was…
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Why does most technology feel “random” so often?
I’ve been involved professionally with technology since 1980. So, you’d think that I understand it (and how it works) reasonably well by now. On some levels, sure, but on others, I feel as helpless as the proverbial mother-in-law or grandparent in the “clueless users” examples people always give… Conceptually, I understand how “small tweaks” can…
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I’m truly a glutton for punishment…
OK, so here I am again, updating my progress on the old Dell Latitude L400 saga… Before I begin, let me assure the millions of readers of this blog that I have no illusion that I will ever be able to use this laptop in anything other than as a “guest surfing” node in my…
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Fifth time’s the charm 🙂
I googled to see whether other people were having trouble with the upgrade to WordPress 2.1. Most were successful on their first try, but a few people had problems that were similar to me. I made two changes and tried again: I ensured that my user had full permissions on the DB I performed the…
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Just joined Technorati
I thought I might keep this blog a secret, since I have nothing useful to say (seriously!). But, on the off chance that I can ruin someone else’s day by having them read this, that might make me feel a tad better about the things that I am ranting about to begin with 😉 Technorati…
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I’m officially a fool…
This (meaning, the title of this post) is not news to anyone who knows me 🙂 For the purposes of this post, I interpret being a fool to “continuing to waste time trying to get the Dell Latitude L400 to be a stable machine for my purposes”. It should have been obvious to everyone (including…