FedoraNEWS.ORG has a great intro to getting KDE 3.2 (released on Fed 2) installed on your current Fedora Core 1 machine. I am installing it as we speak on my laptop; just to try it out.
Author: Bobby Rockers
Its a Feature
Had a co-worker send me this. Pretty funny if you are a programmer.
Top 23 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work:
- “I thought I fixed that.”
- “Where were you when the program blew up?”
- “Why do you want to do it that way?”
- “You can’t use that version on your system.”
- “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?”
- “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
- “Somebody must have changed my code.”
- “It works, but it’s not been tested.”
- “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
- “I can’t test everything!”
- “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
- “You must have the wrong version.”
- “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
- “There is something funky in your data.”
- “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
- “It must be a hardware problem.”
- “How is that possible?”
- “It worked yesterday.”
- “It’s never done that before.”
- “That’s weird…”
- “It’s WAD (Working As Designed)”
- “It’s a feature”
- “Who did you login as ?”
A dead end in space
The New York Times has an article discussing the role (or lack thereof) that the International Space Station will play in future space exploration. Its really sad that political decisions have caused the ISS to effectively become a dead-en as a stepping-stone for future space travel. On a side note, its a good example of why doing what is right is often NOT the same thing as doing what is politically popular.
Bar My Info
The SWIPE Toolkit is a list of web based tools to allow people to search their publicily available personal data. Things like the bar code on your credit card.
QT weekend Tutorial
The Independent Qt Tutorial is a Linux QT tutorial maintained by e8johan. The strength of the KDE environment is based in large part to the power and flexibility of the QT toolkit. If you are a MFC, gtk+, or Cocoa developer you will be totally blown away by QT. Check out the tutorial for a good intro to QT for people who already have some C++ experience.
On-line Grade Wrecker
I am totally screwed! Seriously! My co-worker just sent me THIS link. Its an on-line Nintendo Emulator via a java applet. My social life just crawled over to the corner and shot itself. It also looks like there is a Arcade Emulator available to play on too. Well… it was nice knowing all of you.
She did what in the vault?
Found a freggin sweat how-to, via 2600, about warspying. Evidently X10 video receivers (commonly used for security cameras and such) use the 802.11b protocal over 2.4ghz spectrum. This shows you how to build your own receiver to see what those camera’s are seeing.
Todays Quickie
A little mid-week humor sent to me by a co-worker.
The bumper sticker “Run Hillary Run” is selling like hotcakes in New York.
Democrats put them on the back bumper. Everyone else puts them on the front
Democrats put them on the back bumper. Everyone else puts them on the front
Connect 4
Found this link… I forgot how much fun connect 4 could be. But then I was always a sucker for internet games.
Stopping Evil; or at least evil packets
My boss passed along this link to me today. Its a bash script that helps configure your iptables firewall for you. In addition the side has some really nice blacklist add-on options for the firewall configuration tool that help against spy-ware, ad-wares, and a blacklist add-on called PeerProtect. The spy-ware add-ons allow you to block internal network spy-ware from reaching the outside. The PeerProtect add-on allows you to ignore RIAA and MPAA generated content on your peer-to-peer network (hopefully keeping them from suing you for downloading MP3’s.) Thanks Tom.