http://www.joeterranova.net I do stuff with people. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:22:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ICQ just broke support for pidgin in Ubuntu. There's a thread about it here, the patch is here. If you don't want to apt-get source, apply the patch, and build it, you have the following option: if you are on Hardy, x86, and trust me a lot, I have the ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/07/01/icq-woes-for-pidgin/ This is about the second day of TCF. You may recall the first day of TCF, which I posted about five days ago. Overall, Sunday was much slower than Saturday -- we gave out around 75 CDs, as opposed to 300 on Saturday. However, this is to be expected; despite their ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/05/02/second-day-of-tcf/ Today was the first day of the Trenton Computer festival. Bryan and I left for Trenton around 8:30 AM (after a few false starts) and got there to set up around 10 after 9 -- Mike and his brother arrived soon after. This year we had two tables -- one ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/04/26/tcf-day-1/ I'm upgrading my laptop to hardy today, as I'm giving a presentation on Ubuntu and Hardy tomorrow at the Trenton Computer Festival -- I've been running Hardy for months, but I like reinstalling after release, as I get rid of all the junk in the corners, and make sure all ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/04/25/a-warning-for-those-using-encrypted-partitions/ Saturday was the NJ LoCo Team's April LAN Party. Another LoCo Team member, and professional Linux writer, Dave Harding, gave a detailed account of our last LAN party. Dave hasn't posted a report on Saturday's, so I assume this time it is my turn. What follows is a detailed report, ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/04/14/15_hours_in_my_basement/ Martijn van de Streek posted that he's set up Asterisk on his server. Good job, and glad to hear it! Unfortunately, if you care about security, it's not as easy as "sudo apt-get install asterisk" -- the package is in universe, not main, and therefore hasn't been getting security updates. The ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/04/05/another-asterisk-user/ Well, I've updated to Wordpress 2.5. With that, I've also changed my theme to one that supports widgets. This is spurred by a request Dave made the other day, to have a way to print blog posts in a readable way, without comments. To this end, I added the wp-print plugin, ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/04/04/site-updated/ Just a quick post. Wrote an RSS Feed Generator for DeviantArt Galleries. To use it, replace yourusername with ... your username. http://www.joeterranova.net/code/deviantart.php?artist=yourusername Source code is available here. Brief attempt at a man page. How it Works When life gives you lemons, use regular expressions. I monitored http requests to find DeviantArt's back end ajax interface (which they use ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/02/11/rss-feed-generator-for-deviantart/ As I said in my previous entry, Best Buy didn't sell the n810, and they still don't. However, "Best Buy Mobile" does, and I finally found one with one in stock. And it's awesome! In celebration, here's a video of me doing a barrel roll.JoeTerranova.net http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/01/12/got-it-remy-futile-pursuit-of-an-n810/ (and why I hate gift cards). For the past several months, I've been drooling over the n810. I decided that, following Christmas, I'd be getting one for myself. My boss decided to give us our Christmas bonus in the form of a Best Buy gift card -- no big deal, right? ... http://www.joeterranova.net/2007/12/27/my-futile-pursuit-of-an-n810/