June 27, 2004

This guy spells his name wrong. :(

jordoncooper.com :: now with 28% less carbs per single serving

Dammit. Apparently this guy is actually spelling his name with two "O"s.

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June 24, 2004

Feed of feeds

RSS in Government

News about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governments
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June 18, 2004

Orange Photography takes "tara"ble pictures

orange photography

We had these guys (specifically Tara Arrowood) take our wedding photos. And, man, are they bad. I can't believe we paid $800 (apparently, this is much less than their standard price) for them.

Approximately 80% of the pictures are "artistically shot", with people stretching from one corner to the opposite corner. Since we were on a boat, the horizon is perpendicular to them. This creates a big X in the picture, which I find to be very distracting, visually. It would have been fine if there were one or two like that (as is the case in the online sample of her work), but literally 4 out of 5 of them are this way.

For Pete's sake, she could have just taken the picture from further away, and the later cropped it to satisfy her artistic desires. Leaving us with the original, representational-of-what-actually-happened pictures.

Maybe I was confused about what to expect from a wedding photographer. I had thought we would get pictures of our wedding and the people in it, but taken with better equipment/lighting. Instead we got someone's artistic creation.

I am reminded of the "bad designer" from Trading Spaces (the dark haired NY one) who does crazy "artistic" things like try to paint a fabric couch with housepaint, and then "accidently" leaves it out in the rain because it was a stupid idea in the first place.

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June 17, 2004

iPod -> iRaq posters

iPod to iRaq

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RSS feed from Craigslist searches

craigsrss - craigslist search to rss feed script

generates an rss feed from any craigslist search
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BSD based firewall distro

m0n0wall

m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).
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June 07, 2004

Zsh wiki

Wiki: HomePage

Zsh has a very good [User manual]. It is large, and will probably teach you things you didn't know about the shell you are currently using as well. This wiki doesn't aim to take its place, but to provide an accessible outline of all the features of Zsh (with some nifty specifics!), and foster a Zsh community.
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June 03, 2004

Gentoo is Rice

Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here.

Welcome, this page is dedicated to the Linux Community's greatest ambassadors, Gentoo users. Like the annoying teenager next door with a 90hp import sporting a 6 foot tall bolt-on wing, Gentoo users are proof that society is best served by roving gangs of armed vigilantes, dishing out swift, cold justice with baseball bats to those fucking ricer bastards.

My coworker Austin found this on Memepool. Hilarious.

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June 02, 2004

SSH written in pure python

paramiko: ssh2 protocol for python

paramiko (previously just called "secsh.py") is a module for python 2.3 (though python 2.2 is also supported) that implements the SSH2 protocol for secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections to remote machines.
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And, it has IPSec...tempting....

[Openswan Users] ANNOUNCE: Openswan ported to the MIPS (Linksys WRT54g) platform

Openswan ported to the MIPS (Linksys WRT54g and WRT54gs) platform

Openswan-2 has been ported to the MIPS platform. Code changes have been merged into the last release, version 2.1.2. Some minor Makefile cleanups are still pending to get merged in.

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I never was too keen on that Sveasoft thinger

OpenWRT

OpenWrt is a linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G. Instead of trying to cram every possible feature into one firmware, OpenWrt provides only a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages. For users this means the ability to custom tune features, removing unwanted packages to make room for other packages and for developers this means being able to focus on packages without having to test and release an entire firmware.
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