I just picked up the CD from Mindview for the Bruce Eckel: Hands on Java lecture. It's excellent, but there's one problem with it, and it's not Mindview's fault. Real (makers of RealPlayer) has decided with the latest release for Linux to not support embedded content without having a rtsp …
read moreTwo more years
Two more years until we have to endure olympic-sized hoopla bullcrap again. Let the hype machine commence, and let the money-circus play in a new town. Blah. This isn't the spirit of competition anymore... it's the charade of dope-fiends vs. the IOC, with the advertisers spending themselves silly supporting it …
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At work today we were discussing units of measure. There is a program under Redhat 9 called "units", which contains a lot of conversions, and knows if you are trying to convert non-like conversions (such as hectares to litres). We talked about making a new conversion for "Michigan Hours" = 80miles …
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Welcome to the new domain! Hope you enjoy it! Looks like I'll have WAY more capabilities on this server than on the previous one. Woo hoo!!!
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This past weekend JoDee and I went to my aunt and uncles for a surprise retirement party for my folks. We invited family and close friends of my parents (that I had phone numbers for. I couldn't ask my folks for phone numbers of some people I thought of because …
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