Comments

On December 7, 2007, in Halfloaded, by Andrew

I fixed the comments so everybody should be able to leave comments without logging in. There is an anit-spam measure asking a simple math question before the comment will be allowed. I hope this allows more people to post comments.

 

Another Nephew

On December 6, 2007, in Personal, by Andrew

So, my sister is going to have another boy. She sent out an e-mail today announcing the great news. I have no doubt he will be just as awesome as my other nephew, Hunter. I really hope I will be home to meet the new addition to my family before I leave for my deployment. Congrats Jess (and Sean, Lotus and Hunter!)!

 

AD UserMod Assistant 9.0

On December 6, 2007, in Technology, by Andrew

I finally got around to the latest version of adumass. This was a major release as it fixed some pretty serious bugs and also greatly improved the UI and backend code. I also added a few functions for data validation. Thanks to all those that have helped and submitted support requests. The next version should have a translation pack for those users that don’t habla englais.

 

Another Fedora Post

On December 6, 2007, in Technology, by Andrew

So, I am pleasantly surprised with Fedora 8. This has to be the best release yet. So far, the only thing I am missing is Cinelerra. I’m having some dependency issues with the freshrpms repository so I guess I just need to compile from source. The only other issue I have had is with NetworkManager-vpnc. Removing NetworkManager and reinstalling it form the development tree fixed the issues. I check the changelog and it looks like the fixes should make their way into the tree.

Other than those little things, everything works like a top. I am constantly amazed at the quality of software put out by the community. It’s too bad more people don’t see what OSS does and can do for them. I can’t thank the community enough. With their help, I’m able to do everything I could ever imagine on my pc (and more). They are the ones who have and will be helping me keep in contact with my family while I am deployed to Iraq. Thank you!

 

Bad Behavior

On December 6, 2007, in Halfloaded, by Andrew

I’ve been constantly perplexed by the poor performance of the latest wordpress version. Today I finally got an error letting me know that my Bad Behavior plugin had banned me from logging in. At that point, I got pissed. My credentials were cached but for some reason, it identified me as a bad host. A quick rm -fdr on the damn directory fixed that. And, low and behold, all the performance issues I have been experiencing were fixed. Note to self, before bitching to your ISP, check all your bases to make sure it wasn’t something you were doing.