Twitter and Facebook

Facebook is cool, but I really hate the adverts. Again, I got some program that puts Twitter Updates on Facebook, and then some program that updates Twitter, so I don’t have to be on Twitter or Facebook to make a status update. Sigh… that way, I can keep working! Right now, that program is TwitterBar. I don’t actually have anyone “following” me on Twitter, so I’m not using an application like TwitterFox to keep up with my friends.

The real deal is that I’m just not into spending “time” on Facebook, and I feel bad, because there’s lots of people who have made genuine attempts to keep up with me, and play games and stuff, and a I have a list of requests a mile long. They come to my e-mail box, and that’s great, but I’m wondering if I should just block the applications. I’m thinking no, but I hate having this reminder of stuff that I’ve ignored, but not hit the button to “ignore”. Bah, I think I’ll just poke/hit/give a flower to/wave every single one of them, just to be nice.

Of course, everyone who’s my friend on Facebook can read this, since I link my WordPress blog to Facebook too. I hadn’t updated in a while, so I guess everyone who wants to know what is really up can find out. Yay!

Twitter and Facebook

Facebook is cool, but I really hate the adverts. Again, I got some program that puts Twitter Updates on Facebook, and then some program that updates Twitter, so I don’t have to be on Twitter or Facebook to make a status update. Sigh… that way, I can keep working! Right now, that program is TwitterBar. I don’t actually have anyone “following” me on Twitter, so I’m not using an application like TwitterFox to keep up with my friends.

The real deal is that I’m just not into spending “time” on Facebook, and I feel bad, because there’s lots of people who have made genuine attempts to keep up with me, and play games and stuff, and a I have a list of requests a mile long. They come to my e-mail box, and that’s great, but I’m wondering if I should just block the applications. I’m thinking no, but I hate having this reminder of stuff that I’ve ignored, but not hit the button to “ignore”. Bah, I think I’ll just poke/hit/give a flower to/wave every single one of them, just to be nice.

Of course, everyone who’s my friend on Facebook can read this, since I link my WordPress blog to Facebook too. I hadn’t updated in a while, so I guess everyone who wants to know what is really up can find out. Yay!

I’m from Kokomo!

Random group on Facebook. One of my childhood playmates invited me.

Funnily enough, I was just telling a co-worker about the “Steer” and the “Stump”.

Cleaning up

I deleted all my notes in Facebook. It was just a blog import, and I have that little WordPress application. I doubt anyone will miss it.

I formatted my drive an installed Fedora 9. Windows Vista is annoying, and I’m probably not going to keep playing Warhammer Online. Maybe I’ll start up World of Warcraft again. That supposedly runs well in Linux. I don’t know what I’ll end up doing with my media player situation, but I backed up all my ripped mp3 files to my ClarkConnect box. Maybe I’ll do some kind of transcode to ogg, or just move them to the Vista Media Center.

I didn’t back up my photos… tragic. I think I got them all up on flickr (which I also recently linked to facebook). If not, I’ll comb through my mom-in-law’s digital archive again, and my saved flash cards, and download everything from Flickr. Then I’ll delete the dupes and crappy photos. Then I’ll actually organize them and post them up to Flickr in clean sets. I wonder how hard it is to delete your entire photostream?

gimp-print-cups and a new gateway

Well, that gimp-print thing didn’t work. I couldn’t find a new printer in the admin tool. Oh well. maybe a reboot will fix it…

What’s that? one of the newtwork cards stopped working? Grr… the only thing worse than defective hardware is hardware that works intermittently. Sometimes I really miss my Apple hardware.

Fortunatly the box that has two 10/100 connections hasn’t been torn down… I take that, then set it up and re-copy my music to it, and my world of warcraft isntallation. I notice increased transfer speed. This box has a 2.8 GHz P4 a gig of DDR2 ram, and a 160 GB SATA hard drive. 10 MB/sec… Sigh, I’ll take it.

Then I move on to trying the same failure of gimp-print, and an internet search leads me to try gimp-print-cups.
[root@gateway ~]# apt-get install gimp-print-cups
Reading Package Lists…
Building Dependency Tree…
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp-print-cups
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 30.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://rh.apt.clarkconnect.com System/os gimp-print-cups 4.2.7-2 [24.5MB]
Fetched 24.5MB in 45s (543kB/s)
Committing changes…
Preparing… ##################################################
gimp-print-cups ##################################################
Done.

Holy Cow! That works, but there’s a bunch of printers, none of which have any differentiation. They’re all Epson R300 something-or-other-gimp-print. But, I picked the first one, and the test page printed… but the sheet of paper fed through crooked .

Anyway. Looks like I’m good to go, other than needing for ClarkConnect to be based on a newer release of RHEL.

gimp-print FTW! seriously…

Check the timestamp between this post and the last one. I’m not completely dumb. That’s good to know.

Reading Package Lists…
Building Dependency Tree…
E: Couldn’t find package gutenprint
[root@gateway ~]# apt-get install gimp-print
Reading Package Lists…
Building Dependency Tree…
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp-print
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 52 not upgraded.
Need to get 2459kB of archives.
After unpacking 4306kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://rh.apt.clarkconnect.com System/os gimp-print 4.2.7-2 [2459kB]
Fetched 2459kB in 8s (277kB/s)
Committing changes…
Preparing… ##################################################
gimp-print ##################################################
Done.

ClarkConnect, round 2

So, I fried a router… meh. I built a replacement. I also nabbed a gigabit switch for $20. Unfortunately, the hardware I tried to use for the router failed, and I had to use a “real machine” that only had 10/100 network bits in it.

I got the old hardware back up and running, and I also got some other parts together and ended up building a “home server” with ClarkConnect. Right now, it has two GigE cards (which is ridiculous, I know, since my incoming broadband is less than 10 Mbit) and a 30 GB laptop hard drive. Maybe some day, I’ll grab that little chenbro case and 4 terabyte drives that everyone is using for their custom WHS installs.

The machine is running off of the motherboard from a Compaq machine that I got from the Weldy’s 1.2 GHz Athlon and two sticks of 256 MB RAM. That combined with the laptop hard drive, and the gigabit nics being PCI probably contributed to the paltry backup speed of around 6.5 Megabytes per second. Oh well, I got my 11 GB of ripped CDs off of my comptuer, and I built a machine that can act as some sort of backup server.

Of course, I’ll need to add space, that 30 GB laptop drive is full, because I added the installer for World of Warcraft and some patches to it as well. That’ll be another adventure.

Also, I’ve never gotten the print server working on ClarkConnect. It is one of the few reasons I’m tempted to try out Amahi, just because I know Fedora better than RHEL, and that I know if I plug in my printer in Fedora, it will work. I posted a little help request on the ClarkConnect Forums:

http://www.clarkconnect.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=111094&an=0&page=0#Post111094

I’m guessing I just need to get gutenprint installed, but I don’t really know how. Probably something easy like ssh-ing into the box and typing “apt-get install gutenprint”. Maybe I should just try that. LOL. I really don’t want to have to get out my usb print server. It is just one more thing that I need to plug into the wall.

Ripping CDs in Windows Media Player – Music Brainz?

Hmm… I ripped a *lot* of CDs this week. Windows Media Player did a great job. However, I’ve got a handful of CDs that didn’t have track information available. Some discs simply could not be identified. Some errored out, some ripped but with “unknown” artist/album/track info.

I’m probably going to see if I can give Banshee a chance with Music Brainz on those discs. I doubt I’ll re-rip my whole collection, but I suppose that’s one step closer to freedom. Does anyone know how MusicBrains actually works?

I found my earpiece in the driveway…

I think I’m going to have to start using Twitter if I keep writing short posts… Isn’t there some sort of Facebook/Twitter mashup? Oh, I’d like to use TwitterFox on my PortableApps version of FireFox too. I guess I had better get to it.

As i turns out, the missing rubber piece of my headphones was in the driveway… I found it when I pulled in from work this evening. Yay!

Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headphones Earbud Covers

Well, I really like my Moto S9 bluetooth headphones, but since I ordered them from some back-alley shop in California, I only got the set of earbud covers that came on them. I think that was worth a $60-70 savings, LOL.

Anyway, I used them at the gym, wore them to work, and in the middle of the day, when I took them off, I noticed they were gone. I cried. Then I searched the Internet to find a replacement. I didn’t find any. Today, I looked a little more desperately, as it kind of hurt my ear to have them on without the bud cover. I found some but they cost, like, $10.

Sigh… I might just try some foam covers from other earbuds… Anyone know good alternatives? Hit me up.