http://buzzco.org Drunk and Famous Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:01:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many of you know, I have a first generation xbox as my main media box. I have Avalaunch and Xbox Media Center installed on it. It is getting pretty old and I want to upgraded it. I can't play anything HD on my 47 inch plasma TV and that ... http://buzzco.org/2008/12/27/replacing-an-old-xbox/ A long time ago, when I was but a wee lad, I used a program called GAIM. It was good enough for me. One of my favorite features was hitting 1 for a smiley. Some time ago they took that out. To get it back, create a file in your ~/.purple ... http://buzzco.org/2008/11/04/pidgin-key-bindings-for-emoticon/ It almost Halloween. Which means lots of really bad horror movies. I watched ( all or part of )the following this weekend: Night of the Living Dead Halloween Halloween 2 Halloween 4 Halloween 5 Halloween 6 Salem's Lot ( the one with Rob Lowe ) Carrie Christine A Nightmare on Elm Street 28 days later American Werewolf in London Constantine Pet Sematary Notice ... http://buzzco.org/2008/10/27/i-watch-a-lot-of-movies/ About 4 or 5 years ago, I was in need of a new alarm clock. This was before the Target in the mall (in Poughkeepsie) opened so I headed down to the Wallmart. For 20 dollars I got a pretty sweet alarm clock. 2 alarms, that I have set for ... http://buzzco.org/2008/10/27/alarm-clock/ Well, its that time of year again. I am heading to Montpellier France for a week. I am giving a presentation at the IBM location there. I am looking forward to being in Europe again. Though, I will miss my doggy. Lando has been getting bigger and bigger everyday. http://buzzco.org/2008/09/13/off-to-france/ I recently upgraded buzzco.org. It took a while, since I had some difficulty getting SSL to work. I found 2 great online docs for doing some of the stuff I wanted to do with SSl: http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS.html#4.1 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SSL-RedHat-HOWTO-3.html After reading threw those I was all ready to setup my site. The layout is not too difficult. buzzco.org/ ... http://buzzco.org/2008/09/01/cent-os-4-ssl-apache-2052-ldap/ I am not a developer. I am a tinkerer I write small stuff. At work, I have been tricked into doing some java development. Its kinda fun, getting make into the grind. But there are some things that I have be finding ( or refinding; its been a long time since ... http://buzzco.org/2007/06/19/java-142-and-i-are-not-speaking/ I have been using google reader for a while now. I like the way I can get my "internets" spoon fed to me. My shared items are here. There is an rss also. I have a bunch of good feeds, and I don't always share some of them. Since I am a ... http://buzzco.org/2007/04/02/the-things-i-do/ I run this site using wordpress. I have been looking for a way to share the photos I take with my RAZR on my website. The WordPress Flickr Photo Album plugin for wordpress allows me to easily cache my flickr photos that I post with fspot. It provides a sidebar ... http://buzzco.org/2006/12/31/fspot-flickr-and-wordpress/ Before vacation I bought a Motorola RAZR. Its a need little phone. Since I have the V3m, it has a micro sd card slot. For Christmas I got a 1 gig card, so I have been playing with the camera on it. Its a 1.3 megapixel with no ... http://buzzco.org/2006/12/31/razr-and-ubuntu/