Archive for October, 2002

Tuesday, October 29th, 2002

Halloween and Gentoo

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Over the weekend Andrea and I spent most of our time dealing with Halloween related things, mostly giving out candy at her parents’ house. Now I know some of you may be thinking, “Hey, Halloween isn’t until Thursday!” and indeed you are correct. However, the city of Manchester doesn’t like Thursdays (who can blame [...]

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Friday, October 25th, 2002

Gentoo again

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Thinking of attempting to install Gentoo again. This time, I think I’ll try it on my laptop. If it works, I should be able to ACPI along with GpsDrive and Kismet, and maybe even get working audio, which would be nice.
Also eyeing the Sharp Zaurus, which would be a neat toy, but I can’t [...]

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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

Moving Servers and Wardriving

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Helped Jason and Mike move the OshaSafetyWear server successfully. There was a wacky IRQ problem with the SCSI controller and the built-in ethernet, took forever to resolve, but in the end it was all good. After that, ason and I went to grab some dinner at the 99, then I drove him back to [...]

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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Tasty food and a serial card

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Life’s been fairly quiet since I got back from my trip. Mostly just plodding along on streaming audio stuff for NetBSD. It’s acting a bit weird at the moment with horrible audio quality. Not sure if the microphone and sound chip just suck, or if I’m doing something wrong.
Last Friday Andrea’s parents, Andrea, and [...]

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Tuesday, October 15th, 2002

2003 Summer Roadtrip

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As many of you know, I was out of town last week on vacation. It started on Friday the 4th, heading out after work and beginning to drive to my dad’s house in Michigan. I got there on Saturday afternoon, having stopped in Syracuse, NY for the night. I spent the week there, just [...]

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Sunday, October 6th, 2002

cmail 4.02 Released

Thought I’d throw this up here. I’ve released version 4.02 of my cmail software. It’s a simple program for checking how many messages are waiting in various email boxes. As of this release, it support mbox, Maildir, POP3, IMAP, POP3/SSL, and IMAP/SSL. You can grab it from my projects page.

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