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[Zero Blog] Re: Best description of a hangover in all of English literature

The Yooper — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:29:33 -0700

Funniest book ever.

[Zero Blog] This is about to really suck...

Chuck — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:09 -0700

[img]http://www.bartcop.com/skinned-nose.jpg[/img]

[Technical Roundtable] Replace Netgear firmware with pfSense

R.Bucky — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:15:50 -0700

I have a 2 year old Netgear router that I want to improve upon by installing pfSense. I recall Baxter mentioning something about using a printer as a web server. Is it possible to replace the software? Google does not provide relevant data.

[Local Linux News] Re: Hardware donations?

R.Bucky — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:56:45 -0700

Yes. I will be happy to take the system. I live off of Boulevard in Oly. My email is buckman1@gmail.com. Let me know what works best for you in terms of delivery or pick-up.

Mark

[Local Linux News] Hardware donations?

DICKO24 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:43:56 -0700

I've been away, but back a few years there was a group that wanted working computers to convert to Linux boxes for others. I have such a working system along with some spare parts, and I am losing a lot of storage space in August, so this system must go. I believe it has an older working distro on it. Any takers? I can deliver in the Olympia area, even during the day.

[Zero Blog] Re: Google sucks...are they becoming evil?

The Yooper — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:33:19 -0700

Startpage rocks!

[Zero Blog] Re: Heading off to OSCON this morning

The Yooper — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:32:53 -0700

Did you happen to see the SETI session?

[Zero Blog] America's secret army: how the 'war on terror' created a new industry

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:51:46 -0700

"A new survey of the intelligence network created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks estimates that some 854,000 people have been given high-level clearance, making James Bond look decidedly everyday."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/19/us-spies-triple-since-2001

[Technical Roundtable] George Carlin - We Like War

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:03:03 -0700

[Technical Roundtable] RayStevens - The Global Warming Song

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:50 -0700

[Zero Blog] Poli-tards

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:57 -0700

Who are the campaign people calling me all day? Don't call me until we get rid of electronic voting machines!

[Zero Blog] Washington State Fusion Center

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:32:04 -0700

Reporting Categories [attached]:

MAKE A VIDEO, GO TO JAIL!

[Zero Blog] NWS: Oil spill could reach Lake Michigan by Sunday

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:53:16 -0700

"Battle Creek area residents are being warned to stay away from the Kalamazoo River because of a major oil spill. An estimated 840,000 gallons of oil leaked into a creek Monday that feeds into the river."

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=125205&catid=14&provider=email

[Technical Roundtable] Re: Google News Replacement

Chuck — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:35:34 -0700

I found this in the Ubuntu repositories.

http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html

[Technical Roundtable] Re: Google News Replacement

R.Bucky — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:20:46 -0700

an alternative Desktop client...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/DaokatE_Ork/naufrago-rss-reader-is-basic-but.html

[Technical Roundtable] Re: Google News Replacement

Chuck — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:29:47 -0700

But, but, but....

There is that dreaded time lag. I'd fill my apartment with computers and spend $1000 a month on bandwidth to do what google news does but only properly and without bias and modification. I want a big ol' WTF-machine that figures out what is going on and fills me in.

Mike has to manually find news and has help from his drupal members at http://whatreallyhappened.com/ but his bias comes through. I like his bias so that's ok but I want automation. I want to wake up in the morning, say WTF?, and read what happened in the world without some mainstream dickhead editor messing with it.

I mean I can go out and look up the news one source at a time but I want automation. Google kind of does it, why can't I? Since they changed the format I think google news is retarded but maybe it's me. I just don't want to get news from the enemy because I feel the search results are skewed.

I think my best bet is to make a list of trusted news websites and scrape them daily, then parse them to a web page. To bad I suck at coding php/mysql. Any kind of "srape" code seems to go away almost right away from the internet. I need code that will scrape the html from between two unique html tags. Then it has to render the output to a simple web page. Easy right? I did this once before and I should never had let the code go. I can't find it now.

In the old days, for world and Linux news, I did this manually. I still do but it's just for me. The extra work to present the results on the web was too much however. I mean my view of the world is not seen in the mainstream. From my perspective the mainstream press is pure propaganda and I wont participate.

[Zero Blog] Re: Heading off to OSCON this morning

R.Bucky — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:54:48 -0700

I was not overly impressed with the topics this time around. I found more use out of the Dallas, TX MySQL conference than OSCON

[Technical Roundtable] Re: Google News Replacement

R.Bucky — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:53:29 -0700

You have been chewing on this for some time now. The closest thing to greatness in terms of an RSS aggregator would be rsslounge. Aside from that, I just have around 220 feeds in Google Reader...

[Technical Roundtable] Ubuntu 10.04 not making me happy

R.Bucky — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:51:31 -0700

After several weeks of operating Ubuntu 10.04 at work and home, I have to say that it is irritating me greatly. Perhaps, it is my brain neurons not firing in order. Since moving to v.10.04 I cannot get any of my sites to talk with each other via RSS. This is a problem since I post RSS feeds on various pages; sounds more like DNS or an upgrade in PHP more than anything. My logs are full of errors relating to PHP from everything to images to functions.... Next, I upgraded a server and Ubuntu refuses to say "Hello" to my NIC. Aside from that, it is still chewing on around 3GB RAM, where the previous version was just fine with 800MB. I could go on and on and on. Little annoyances here and there...

Is this me, or does 10.04 need a bit more time? Or, do I need more time! :-)

[Zero Blog] We The People

Chuck — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:32:08 -0700

This is pretty heavy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE

[Zero Blog] Re: Google sucks...are they becoming evil?

anjilslaire — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:00:55 -0700

try https://startpage.com, with SSL

[Technical Roundtable] Google News Replacement

Chuck — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:22:48 -0700

I really want to build a news aggrigator like Google but with open source and true anarchy. Just people helping each other to get news.

[Zero Blog] Re: Best description of a hangover in all of English literature

Chuck — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:20:28 -0700

Yeah, that's about right.

[Zero Blog] Re: Google sucks...are they becoming evil?

Chuck — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:18:45 -0700

I added them both to Firefox.

[Zero Blog] Best description of a hangover in all of English literature

The Yooper — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:50:33 -0700

[i]Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eye-balls again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.[/i]

Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis

[Zero Blog] Re: Google sucks...are they becoming evil?

The Yooper — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:43:40 -0700

Yea, they suck. What really bugs me is the shittiness of their search results. I think they are more concerned with returning results of things I might buy than what I am really looking for.

I'm going to start using Startpage and DDG. See how that works.

[Linux News Stories] Ten Reasons to Dump Windows and Use Linux

Chuck — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:42:11 -0700

"...changing out tired and faulty Windows Vista desktops for the alien Windows 7 or something more user-friendly--Linux provides you with freedom and freedom of choice."

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/201731/ten_reasons_to_dump_windows_and_use_linux.html?tk=hp_new

[Zero Blog] Re: Scroogle

Chuck — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:39:54 -0700

I don't mind so much that search engines collect my data. It's the fact they make money off of it that irritates me.

That's the first search engine to find my MP3 library:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22chuck+west%22

[Zero Blog] DuckDuckGo

R.Bucky — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:46:55 -0700

Since we are talking search engines here, check out http://duckduckgo.com. They do not collect your info and the results are what you need.

[Zero Blog] Scroogle

Chuck — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:11:34 -0700

Anonymous Google searches:

https://ssl.scroogle.org/