Archive for June, 2008

Why Is Everything a “Hack” With Javascript?

As I have stated in the past, I hate JavaScript.  It looks messy and feels very sloppy to code.  After relentlessly studying JQuery for the past several weeks I have come to the conclusion that everything in JavaScript is a Hack.
For example :

If you have ever used Wordpress, you are farmilliar with adding “Tags” to [...]

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I Steal Bad Software

When I got my Powerbook, I was so excited I immediately went out to Best Buy and bought ($230) a 5 user license of Leopard so I can get full functionality out of the wonderful operating system without worrying about any licensing issues — and share it with my friends.  When I can afford Text [...]

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Run Your Own Web Server with VMWare

After spending years playing with Linux Servers and VMWare I have decided to give a little bit back to the community.  I have created a minimal VMWare web server image with everything you need to get started hosting your own web pages and applications.
This is a CentOS 4.6 minimal installation with all the updates / [...]

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DD-WRT Static Internal DNS

All I can say is WOW!
I just did a firmware upgrade on my Linksys WRT54GS v4 to the latest stable DD-WRT bin, and I must say their are two massive benefits to upgrading your firmware if you haven’t already.

Part 1. Static Internal DNS / DHCP Leases
We can now organize all of our clients nodes the [...]

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When I Close a Door, I Always Open a Window

No I don’t mean XP, I hate that shit.
I am talking about my power supply debokkle. I found one on Kijiji in Hamilton for only $40 plus the same seller has 512 MB Ram baby!  Even better - she is selling it for only $25!  So I meet her tomorrow with $65 and I have [...]

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Re-Encoding m4a to mp3 in Ubuntu

I just downloaded a bunch of older Moneen torrents and wanted to put them up on Radio Free Geekhut, unfortunately my crappy Windows Encoding box doesn’t support m4a playback.  After a quick google search I found a link as to how to convert these puppies in Ubuntu / Debian since soundconverter wont do it for [...]

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Why Canada Wont Help Mozilla’s World Record Attempt

Go here and take a look at the map.  As of todays date, Canada has a total of 33, 000 pledges to download Firefox 3 on the 17th.  Compared the the US or even Brazil and Poland, it appears to the rest of the world that us Canadians aren’t the best supporters of the Mozilla [...]

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If You Haven’t Tried These, Try Them

I am very passionate about food and drink, specifically imported beer and unique cuts of different types of meats.  I once worked as a butcher at a local meat shop and loved every minutes of it, especially having a fellow employee mark 2 Lbs of Beef tenderloin as ground beef ($4 compared to $40).
Anyway I [...]

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Radio Free Geekhut is on the Air

If you have nothing better to do tonight, listen to RFG. Theres a link on the side of this page to tune in - we only got ten spots so hurry up.
The show commences at 9PM with Matt Loeb and Mike Stevens, like last week but better because they’ve had some practice.  Not sure tonights [...]

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Video : Torrentflux How-To

This is a quick how to to get you started using the best web based torent downloader / tracker ever created, Torrentflux.
I am sure I’ve blogged this before but I just reinstalled it on geekhut and I thought I’d show it off a second time.
Here is a link to the ogg, I am converting the [...]

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