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For the ones who married young 8 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
Various of our friends post articles now and then about the joys of marrying young and growing up together in harmony. The most recent of these was here, and is a beautiful story, full of sweet moment...
Vanilla Forums: Email subject lines 6 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
Problem: Vanilla Forums sends out email on new messages and when a message has been commented on. The subject line is: [Forum Name] rbowen started a discussion or [Forum Name] rbowen commented on y...
The Mess 4 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
Ray wants to bake a cake. Marguerite wants to float on her gecko in the pool. These are, of course, wonderful things, fun and profitable. I must try to think of the fun and not the work it will crea...
Setting your default printer 31 Jul 2013 | 11:18 pm
When I finally got printing working on my new HP5520, I discovered that apps like xpdf that print by invoking lpr directly would only work if I told them to use 'lpr -Php5520', which was a hassle. Aft...
Happy 15th, OSCon 22 Jul 2013 | 11:38 pm
15 years ago, I attended the first OSCon, in Santa Clara, I think. I was there for the Perl content, and managed to pay my way by giving a full day tutorial on the Apache web server. Amazingly, they k...
Ode to a shoelace 17 Jul 2013 | 05:52 am
Last evening we had a small gathering around the fire pit to read poetry. I started with Pablo Neruda's Ode to Ironing. My Beloved asked if there was an ode to shoelaces, and thus began an odyssey. Fo...
Podcasting tips 9 Jul 2013 | 07:23 pm
I was asked this morning for some information that I get asked for a lot, so it seemed reasonable to write it down once so that I can refer to it later. I don't claim to be an expert on this. If anyt...
Linux video editing 9 Jul 2013 | 12:40 am
Quick notes about my video editing woes, so that I don't have to keep repeating myself I'm recording the original content with RecordMyDesktop, which outputs ogv format. Have had no luck with other r...
The Apache Feather 22 Jun 2013 | 05:12 am
If you've been around the Apache Software Foundation for a while, you may have seen this photo: That's the Apache httpd developers (most of them) at the first ApacheCon, in 1998. You may have wonder...
RedHat Summit Summary 19 Jun 2013 | 01:05 am
Last week I attended the Red Hat Summit in Boston. It was, for me, equal parts pep rally and intensive OpenStack training. Jim Whitehurst's keynote was just great, because it reemphasized how much Re...
