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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 project - or are we?

See, I think the reason we are low on pledges is because Canadians are smart, we understand the benefits of a good browser and have jumped on the Firefox wagon years ago.  You are most likely using FF2, some maybe even FF3 but why not download it anyway just for fun, I  signed up just because of all the years Firefox has been there for me…

Thanks Mozilla

I wonder, does it count if you :

dist-upgrade -d

yum –enablerepo=some repo install <firefox package name>

Do apt sources or package mirrors count as a download - or does it have to be from the mozilla site?

Do you think this is just performance tuning for Mozilla?  We all know alpha 4 will have an add-on to read our minds and that will require a lot of bandwidth.

Uncategorized Canada, Firefox, Mozilla

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 topic  but I’m sure it will be wicked cool, plus they will probably have some drinks (which you should do to tolerate the show).

We need bandwidth, so if you have some extra and you like the shoe - help us out!

We love you all.

Uncategorized Radio, rfg, Shoutcast

Uncategorized Disgusting

You may have noticed some downtime and broken links here at geekhut, I screwed up. First off Cogeco (my ISP) cut me off for using too much bandwidth, that was last Sunday. Then two days ago I noticed the LAMP stack was very sluggish. I figured this was because both the VM Host And web server were running gnome and a lot of unnecessary services.

So I think now we’re OK. The VM host is a minimal paranoid Debian (Lenny) build and the web server is some tiny 200mb LAMP appliance I found somewhere running a minimal Ubuntu server distro.

The worst part is, all of my permalinks are messed up, Google now hates me and has dropped a bunch of my old links I worked so hard for. I have made a snapshot of each VM and backed it up to a DVD, sorry about all the confusion.

Uncategorized Downtime, Server

Recently a friend gave me his untouched Powerbook G4 because it didn’t work with his proprietary software the way he wanted. I have never owned an Apple product and I must say, I have been missing out! Before owning a Mac, I had used several Ubuntu flavoured Linux dists. and became quite comfortable with them… but then came the free shiny new mac and my computing world was flipped upside-down

First Impressions

I found it difficult to get used to the fact that the menu bar at the top changes on window focus, and I absolutely despised the keyboard shortcuts. At the time it was running 10.2.1 and I thought it was a free upgrade to Leopard, but it wasn’t. So for the first time in my life I BOUGHT software! - Leopard to be exact. I was pissed tiger couldn’t play any video formats and Photoshop / Zend Studio were not supported.

After One Week

I had the keyboard shortcuts down 100%. I forced myself to learn how to use this new environment, even with a tight deadline. Though I was tempted to pick up my Linux box again to finish the job quickly, I stuck it out and in turn I have a deep respect for OS X developers.

Many people say mac is so easy to use and so intuitive however that statement is not 100% true. OS X is very easy to use and works extremely well, and can read your mind too but if you have been trained for years to use retard Windows, you no longer think logically. You expect things to break and crash and then try to find other ways to do something so that maybe it might work this time. I was conditioned to use Windows for years, then four years ago switched to Linux, now I finally have a Mac and though Tux holds a very dear place in my heart, he stays at home on my server and I bring my Mac with me to work.

Uncategorized Mac, Powerbook

A while back I wanted to configure my PBX to tell me which menu item was selected in my IVR before I answered, so I knew how to greet the caller. So I set up queues on my asterisk system and realized that people were forced to listen to hold music instead of ringing.

Recently one of my customers commented on my horrible hold music and how they had to hear the same gut wrenching tune every time they called me. [It is that bad world-beat.mp3 that comes with a stock Trixbox install]. So I decided to look for some royalty free or “open source” hold music.

A quick search on google presented about a trillion results of which required me to pay for most of the music or sign up… I refined my search and google adwords ended up spotting me exactly what I was looking for. I found this collection of 8 wav files that are wickedly hilarious for hold music and just a little more entertaining that the stock Trixbox ones, I still had to give them my email address but I am willing to take a load of spam for the sanity of my clients.

The music is still horrible but at least it is funny, I am excited to hear that customers reaction when she hears my new playlist.

Uncategorized Asterisk, Music, VoIP

It’s late at night, I’m exhausted and I have the urge to smoke so i pull out my trusty old baby blue bic and give it a flick. Sparks… just sparks. I can not get a damn flame from this lighter if it’s the last thing I do. So now I’m starting to get a little anxious, thinking it could be hours before I can make fire and inhale that deliciously satisfying death.

IChat

Me : Matt I do not have a working lighter.

Matt : Use the stove.

Me: The fuse is busted, the guy is coming tomorrow.

Matt : Hit some rocks together?

My stove / oven is temporarily out of comission so I decide its time to give up. I sit back down at my laptop and continue programming. The problem with programming is that you need to smoke a lot so I get back up and search the house again for a match, nothing.

I decided to get innovative, I saw the toaster and a candle, i thought i could make sparks or something and light the candle - then my brain kicked in; that wont work. So then I get this wicked MacGuyver idea to grab a shish kabob skewer, a glass of water and a small piece of kleenex. I then heated up the toaster, lit my paper and got the nearest candle to light — Success! I extinguished the blazing inferno in a coffee cup and was on my way.

There is a lesson to be learned here : Always have one of these.

Uncategorized Cigarette, Hobo

Alright, I’ve kept quiet for far too long, I just cant take it any more!

The worlds greatest god damn film ever made with more hype than Michael Jackson, Brittney and even OJ combined is hitting theatres within 24 hours.

Whoopidy fuck… I can not understand why this rubbish is so popular! Sex and the City has got to be one of the most irritating shows ever created and even worse I know MEN who enjoy watching it! A friend of mine pinpointed the exact reason people love it. It is voyeuristic and can be shocking for people who live boring lives.

I will outline the basic episode structure for you :

[a bustling coffee shop in a snobby part of New York City]

Samantha (the whore) : Heall yeah I lick assholes, what woman doesn’t.

The brunette : Ewww thats gross! I would never do that… (later she does it)

The ugly red head : Yeah I’ve done that too, probably more times than all of you…guys, guys!! Pay attention to me! my fucking baby and r-tard boyfriend both suck!

Carrie (the one that looks like a camel) : [Narration] So if it is ok for me to lick an asshole, does that mean it’s ok for a guy to lick mine…. later that day i thought about licking assholes a lot when I ran into my flaming gay friend Jose, he told me licking assholes is all the rave.

[A bunch of meaningless shit happens with horrible jokes and some nude scenes]…

[ending scene, Carrie in front of her laptop typing her crappy column]

I guess licking assholes is ok for women in the big apple. Relationships, relationship…Relationships blah blah blah single Relationships upper east side mr. big, gossip girl…

Let me save you the ten bucks - Carrie marries Big and the rest is shit, this movie was created to cash in one last time and the brilliiant marketers did their job well.

Besides, do you really want to pay to stare at this for 2 hours?!

Uncategorized annoyances, sex and the city

Chicken was on sale this week at Superstore so we picked one up. With my novice experience in butchery I decided to carve it up and make some Jamaican Jerk Chicken this evening. So I gathered all my ingredients and started up the oven, found a great rice recipe and turned on the burner.

About 5 minutes later while measuring the perfect water to rice ratio, a noise as loud as a gunshot blasted through the house and I felt something hit me in the upper back. I was shocked and my heart jumped, I was so confused as to what just happened.

I turned on the wrong burner, the one that had my Pyrex glass baking pan on it. It blew up and sprayed the entire kitchen and living room with tiny pieces of glass, I just found some in my hair.

Todays lesson : do not place a Pyrex glass baking pan on a hot burner, it explodes violently and can cause heart attack!

I turned off the oven, put the chicken in the fridge and poured a big glass of wine, I am now terrified of the stove.

[Update]

My Jamaican Curry dinner bombed hardcore,  the chicken was cooked well however I  guess I didn’t follow the recipe close enough because we both agreed it tasted like soap . So even though there are poor children starving in Africa, we were forced to toss it.

So not only did I almost die from exploding glass, my rice and chicken sucked… I am going to make some sandwiches now.

Uncategorized explode, glass, pyrex