Paul's Journal

04/20/2009 23:19 #48461

Linux on the PS3 with Edie Beale

All day long, (e:matthew) has been going crazy trying to watch this Grey
Gardens xvid.avi on the ps3. Transcoding it was not an option because
the quality was already low. The answer ended up being dual boot the
PS3 with Linux. If only the ps3 would allow the Linux install to use
hardware graphics accelareion we could go full screen. At least we
can watch it pretty big.

lilho - 04/21/09 10:50
I'm jealous

hodown - 04/21/09 09:52
I salute Matt for his dedication to Grey Gardens.

jim - 04/21/09 09:06
tinypliny: :::link:::

tinypliny - 04/21/09 02:12
What is a Grey Gardens?

04/20/2009 19:07 #48455

I hate being sick
Category: health

I have had the worst sore throat/cough thing since saturday. I think what caused it is cleaning the tortoise room after I put him outside on saturday. I didn't release that shop vac didn't have a filter on it and wihtin a few seconds the dried tortoise poop and hay combo turned into a nasty poop dust cloud with myself in the middle.

Since then I have been coughing. I probably have some rare tortoise poop lung disease, yuk!

libertad - 04/20/09 23:00
Yuck. Hope you feel better.

04/20/2009 13:01 #48451

Why Oracle?
Category: computers

Oracle just bought Sun Microsystems, which had recently bought mysql which means that oracle now owns mysql. That sound bad for mysql but I guess good for postgresql which I am most likely going to switch at some point in the near future.

Just a couple weeks ago, IBM put up a bid for Sun which would have been so much better. IBM has such a great history of supporting open source intiatives. The one good thing about it is that eclipse and netbeans won't be owned by the same company so they will still compete for better features and both end up better.

carolinian - 04/21/09 13:02
I would be so psyched if you moved estrip to PostgreSQL. Welcome to the Cult Of The Elephant.

zobar - 04/20/09 16:46
Why MySQL?

I don't think Oracle has any reason to kill MySQL - I don't see there being much overlap, and MySQL is really 'too big to die.'

But, if you decide to switch to Postgres, I think you'll have a tough time going back.

- Z

joshua - 04/20/09 14:52
Strategically it makes sense for Oracle - it is a sort of vertical integration that is going to yield billions. How many companies out there have that kind of cash on hand for a buyout these days anyway?

04/19/2009 17:41 #48440

Pick up you shit scumbags
Category: linwood

The other day this car full of auslinwooders pulled up, opened their
car doors, dumped their mcDonalds trash and left.

I let the crows and seaguls finish the food and then picked up the
trash.

I seriously can't believe people do this.

uncutsaniflush - 04/19/09 20:39
Thanks, (e:paul). I forgot about auslander. I looked it up it's from Ausland (away land). In this case, "aus" means away. Language stuff like this fascinates me.

zobar - 04/19/09 20:14
paul man why are you a slumlord. don't be like that, you're bringing down property values.

- Z

paul - 04/19/09 20:02
Comes from auslander, which is translated as foreigner, e.g. Not from this land.

uncutsaniflush - 04/19/09 19:46
(e:paul) - is that from the German "aus"?? If so, wouldn't that be from Linwood?? Wouldn't non-Linwooders be something like nichtlinwooders (not-Linwooders) or nichtauslinwooders (not from Linwooders)? As in "Ich bin nicht aus Linwood"?

Of course, my German is not very good. So as always, I could be wrong.

paul - 04/19/09 19:28
People not from linwood.

jenks - 04/19/09 19:18
auslinwooders?

04/18/2009 12:56 #48431

Too cold for basra

I put him outside and be was so excited. But then it got too cold and
he dug himself a hole to sleep in. He is so strong now that he dug it
in like a hour. He actually was warm when I pulled him out, so I
guess it works.

lilho - 04/18/09 16:58
Basra is so clever and cute! What more could you ask for in a tortoise?