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11/14/2007 21:52 #42126

Monday night
Category: computers
I am getting so sick of working on the new server - DNS, php, apache, mysql, email all set. Next I am gogin tot move the new site over from my dev machine.

At least I have techno4ever

This is what I look like programming, I guess everyone else has probably seen it but it was new for me.

::Download Flash Video::



I really wish I could move back to Germany sometimes. I miss living in europe. Today I looked at the Italian Citizenship site again and I really just need to go to New York to deal with it. I think maybe in January? I just need to drag my mother and brother with me.

Don't worry, I am not going anywhere. I just want to have it all together so I can ditch this country when the chinese come and claim it.
paul - 11/15/07 00:26
The rules are very specific. In my case, my grandfather was an italian citizen still when she was born in italy. She moved here when she was 5 and he took american citizenship after that. So that while he renounced his Italian citizenship to become American, she never renounced hers by becomming an american citizen through him. Basically she inherited his citizen ship and I inherited it from her.
lilho - 11/14/07 22:23
haaaa. i want to ditch this country too. do you remember when you blogged about everything??? i miss that. i miss you.
james - 11/14/07 22:23
do you just need Italian heritage? I am 25% though I look like an anglo. My mother, however, looks like she should be gesturing with her hands and weeping before a statue of Mary.
mrdeadlier - 11/14/07 22:13
at first i thought you were just droning to the music, lol -- then i realized that it was probably just the code-checking or whatever.
paul - 11/14/07 22:11
I love the ways my eyes move near the end, when I am obsessively comparing data on two monitors.
mrdeadlier - 11/14/07 22:09
kinda, only it's from the back and the music's self-contained in your headphones.

11/12/2007 12:15 #42095

One Laptop Per Child
Category: computers
While I never had a laptop as a child and survived. I do believe having an internet enabled laptop will open up possibilities for lots of children in other countries.

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For $400, you get one, a child in a dis-adantaged country gets one. You get a $200 tax deducation and you get 1 year free access to tmobile wifi hotspots which is normally like $19 a month.

Seems like a good deal, especially if you have friends that needs a laptop that can probably survive a beer spill. Oh ya, and it runs a flavor of linux.

The main screen is very simple to navigate and select what you want to do.
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Thee is a visual logo interface
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estrip works great on it.
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It has a fedora backend and can easily be run in vmware if you want to test it out.

You can use it as an ebook reader too. That is not my laptop in the background. I took the picture from

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jacob - 11/14/07 21:28
It's too bad they couldn't make it for the original $100. But, I like the incentives that they're giving out to induces us "rich" overprivileged consumers to help out. Still @ $200 that makes it difficult to make it readily available to children in third world countries. I mean $200 is ALOT of money in the third world. Maybe they'll be able to lower production costs once they've been out for a while.

Sounds like a good Christmas gift.
lilho - 11/12/07 23:32
wow, thats really super amazing! if i had some extra cashola id do it. maybe i will....
tinypliny - 11/12/07 18:26
(e:uncutsaniflush), The sale opened up today.

I have been debating about getting this laptop for a very long time, but a few factors prevent me from taking the leap. The software that I use regularly (SAS) is known to have big issues in Linux. (and of course, my university won't pay for a Linux SAS). I am trying to transiton to R, but my own mediocre programming skills are dragging me down. Learning S Plus is not an easy thing to do, unfortunately. I worry about networking this laptop to the windows one that I currently have. I am not sure that this laptop has enough memory or space to run Windows.

The specs are as follows:
Linux-based, Dual-mode Display (Full-color/Sunlight-readable B&W), 500MHz processor, 128MB DRAM, 500MB Flash Memory, 3 USB ports, SD-card slot, Wireless broadband/LAN, No hard disk.

The whole thing also makes me think about my childhood. I didn't have a computer, not to mention, a laptops till I was in College! What will be the effect on these children who will get the laptop? Would they be hooked on to ridiculous video games instead of healthy games in the sunlight soaked fields? I guess I am just being cynical but this unhealthy obsession with some artificial anti-social games that kids have today is very disturbing to me.
museumchick - 11/12/07 15:35
Very cool. I'm glad they have something like that.
uncutsaniflush - 11/12/07 15:32
I've been following the progress of OLPC since it was just a proposal for a $100 laptop. It's good to see it happening despite the significantly higher price. I find the damn thing fascinating. I've been debating about getting one since last month when I heard that they would be for sale to North American gringos in November.
paul - 11/12/07 13:55
I am able to surf estrip from it right now using a vmware simulation of it. The browser seems eally good. It also a a visual logo editor, for those of you that remember logo (the turle) from back in the day.
mrmike - 11/12/07 13:06
That view makes it look like electronic Battleship

11/08/2007 20:22 #42050

Suburban Snow Storm
Category: weather
Well, we have no snow in the city, but it looks like they had a bunch in cheetovegas.

I am so sad I missed Sushi ;(


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lilho - 11/09/07 14:03
cheetovegas! you need to copyright that now! oh my pauly, i miss you so!
james - 11/09/07 12:33
I was in Orchard Park on Tuesday (not willingly) and it was snowing buckets. I saw a car spin out of control and two accidents on my way back to Buffalo.

Buffalo, where there was no snow to speak of.

We so have the wrong reputation.
flacidness - 11/08/07 23:25
SHIT!!

11/07/2007 19:19 #42033

Eating on Server Day
Category: food
What would a server setup day be without some other exotic seafood. Today I tried these white clams with black stripes. I think they were cultured because they were in fact the cleanest clams I have ever seen, they were also maybe the tastiest.

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Then (e:terry) made bacon wrapped asparagus. I would suggest it to anyone.

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And then I ate a pomegranite. I think this is the first one I ate so much of. Usually, they just end up drying out.

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Are neighbors had the funk truck come by today. Since when is Funk, organic fertilizer. I thought it was spray chemical. Have they changed their business model?
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mike - 11/09/07 10:46
i love bacon wrapped asparagus!
fellyconnelly - 11/08/07 10:01
jbeatty you said it before i could...
bacon wrapped.... ANYTHING!
paul - 11/07/07 19:58
I never saw ones like that either. I found them at the coop.
jbeatty - 11/07/07 19:30
I have never seen clams like that before. Do you know what kind they were? Bacon wrapped anything is usually a good idea.

11/07/2007 03:12 #42020

Special Characters In estrip v6
Category: estrip
Her you can see a paragraph in German using special characters in the new estrip v6 coming soon to a website near you.

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tinypliny - 11/08/07 23:32
I LOVE the colours. I can't wait for the cream and the green!
jim - 11/07/07 09:48
Tøtälly Awésome

janelle - 11/07/07 07:30
Finally, I can post in German with real umlauts and double ss's. I'll never need to write another post in English again. Thanks, Paul!