Craig Maloney

Vampire astronomy

Astronomy and Vampires, or the only logical explanation why anyone would stay up past 4am on a work-night.

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Deep editor humor

Emacs - Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping
Eclipse - Eighty-million Cycles Lost In Presenting Screen Editor

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Last weekend while doing the grocery shopping, JoDee and I happened upon quite the breakfast find. Meijer was clearing out a whole bunch of oatmeal called “Breakfast Blast”. Since it was over half off, we decided to try one. They had boxes and boxes of this stuff on the shelf, and we both wondered out [...]

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The unbearable state of Meh

Meh.
That’s about how I feel right now. Meh. Sums up everything quite nicely. Not good, not bad… just meh.
I won’t bore you all with the details, but suffice to say, there’s car trouble involved (isn’t there always car trouble on this blog? Maybe it should have it’s own category. “Blogging about computers, music, and car [...]

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Blogging diet

God DAMN, I’ve fallen behind in my blog reading. I finally gave up and just marked everything as read. I’m also going to go through another round of unsubscribing from the low-content, high-ego-bullshit blogs. (I will never understand the allure of most of these A-List bloggers. I don’t need 20 postings of blogsturbation per-day, thank [...]

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Getting Fedora to work with a microphone

I’ve been having trouble getting Fedora to work with my microphone. I can shout into it until I’m blue in the face and hear myself through the speakers, but recording and using Skype / Ekiga gave me no love. Fortunately, there is a solution:
ALSA and your microphone
The gist of the problem is the AC97 [...]

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