http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org Dan Fuhry is a software developer and the administrator of the Fuhry Kitchen Table website. His latest pride and joy is BigMomma, a Compaq ML350 server (!) running Fedora Core 4 on 2 Xeon 866MHz CPUs. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:42:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know it's been a while since I posted. Busy summer, we'll leave it at that. I was contacted by a reader of my blog - Nolan Haycook - who uses RoadRunner with Time Warner Cable. He called them up and gave me some interesting information from a tier 3 support ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/08/22/update-on-the-roadrunner-issue/ Remember "Thoughts on Music"? The open letter Steve Jobs wrote about 16 months ago? I think the community was right. It was a big, fat lie. The iPhone 3G and the App Store hit the streets today. And just as could be expected, an e-mail came in from Defective By Design ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/07/11/well-would-you-look-at-that-steve-lied-to-us/ One of the most popular requested features in Enano that I was never able to implement efficiently has just gone in - in under 1KB of code. This feature is hiding certain sidebar blocks except for certain users or groups. A couple of days ago I rewrote the part of template::tplWikiFormat() ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/07/07/at-long-last-hiding-sidebar-blocks/ A week or so ago I mentioned that I got my DSL to a point of very high reliability. There's a fair amount of truth to that, with a bit of a sudden change today. Here's how it all went down. I figured out that my DSL was acting up because ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/06/26/how-i-got-my-dsl-working-great-and-what-lies-ahead/ This is the response I got from the Roadrunner cable rep. Way to treat their potential customers, eh? Dear Mr. Fuhry: Thank you for your email. We always appreciate the opportunity to respond to our customers. Thank you for contacting Time Warner Cable. The ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/06/18/roadrunner-update/ Peter McCullough and I are starting up a community tech/news site aimed at geeks, affectionately called twogeeksonesite.com. Here we plan to post hardware reviews, track industry news, talk about current events, and provide a general tech discussion community. We're not going for anything particularly Web 2.0 (e.g. social networking) but ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/06/13/new-start-up-project-two-geeks-one-site/ I just found out a week or so ago that Road Runner is offering cable Internet in my area at last! Needless to say I'm grilling them the same way I grilled Windstream before I signed up for their DSL service. Feel free to use it as a basis for ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/06/07/considering-a-switch-to-roadrunner-cable/ In what may seem like an ironic turn of events, the Pioneer VSX-5000 amplifier responsible for the deaths of two subwoofers and a sound card has taken its own life, perhaps in an attempt to make retribution for its crimes. The 22-year-old receiver and amplifier had a lonely and traumatic history ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/05/28/amplifier-claims-final-victim-4-dead-as-killing-spree-brought-to-tragic-end/ So I was working on my iPod trying to disable Stealth MAC without removing it. I tried using UIctl after RTFMing on launchctl and everything that it does. Unfortunately something caused my Touch to stop responding, and nothing came up when I rebooted. I reluctantly decided to restore my device. It's ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/05/26/the-dreaded-1604-error-and-how-to-fix-it/ Wow! Has it really been a month? I must be busy or something - imagine that. So a lot has happened in the past month, most of it being IRL things that I don't talk about here. (That's why God made Facebook.) But a few things have happened in my online ... http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/2008/05/24/the-latest-from-fuhry-land/