The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
If the photo below doesn't make sense to you just move along, there is nothing here for you to see.
I have had this in my writing queue for about 3 months, and still am not sure what it is that I am trying to say, but here goes.
In the wake of the Eliot Spitzer Circus I was curiously turned on to a few blogs run by Professional Amateur Call Girls, or girls that primarily support themselves through the profession but don't work for someone else. Since I am not sure what else to call them ProAm is the best I could come up with.
I have been reading their blogs (no links, the eye of the world has already looked very hard in their direction and unsettled several of their lives) and have only this to say: I doubt that very many people in this world could be as honest about their lives, even in an anonymous setting, as they are on these blogs. I realize the sexual nature of the business is very personal, so maybe that is what brings it out... but I doubt I could be so honest.
So my household is a Media Center centric one, and I have long been annoyed by the lack of DVD playback for the Media Center Extenders. I think Microsoft may have crippled the extenders for no real reason, that I can tell. They seen to think that streaming of DVD's constitutes a breach of the rights that studios grant you. I fail to see how I am not allowed to share in my own home the contents of a rightfully purchased or rented video with myself. The logic is fuzzy to say the least, but that is the line Microsoft decided to walk. They sidestepped the issue in the current generation of extenders somewhat (some of the extenders have built-in DVD playback capabilities). For me this is somewhat academic as the old generation of Media Center Extenders are not supported by vista, but since I bought it I feel that it should be of some use to me.
I'm sure this is an old hat for the true followers of The GreenButton, but I thought I would share for the rest of class. The link outlines the process for creating a Hardlink between a fake mpg file and a ripped .vob file.
Linking VOBs for extender playback presented on of all places an MSDN blog, is helpful with fairly easy to understand instructions.
As a side note having been burned by the lack of support for the last generation of MCE accessories by the new version of Media Center I do not plan on buying any additional accessories. I have a rarely used HP extender and 2 Media Center Portables (one Creative and one Samsung that technically still work w/ Vista). I suppose I would just like a nod from the device manufactures "hey you bought our stuff, thanks".
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There is a way to make this work, that isn't so manual.
So, a post just to get the ball rolling again. This summer I got the itch to replace my guest bathroom. I find these things are best summarized with photos. First Photo is waiting for the tiles to set, second is after the toilet was back in.
In short I had linoleum and wanted tile. Now I have tile and new paint.
So I being one to look on the loving Google with a forgiving eye have come to end of my toleration for the Adsense site ssl cert throwing errors. Google is frigging huge, I assume that engineers at Google use Firefox, I also assume that someone would have seen the following error and fixed it. Like a year ago when it started happening.
Firefox 3 makes it kind of hard to ignore anymore:
So if a Security Engineer, or Web Master (if they even have titles like that) could get on this, and get some extended validation or whatever it takes to get ssl on subdomains that would be great. I don't feel like adding exceptions to good rules because someone can't figure out how to buy the right cert (not the the vendors make it easy).
Inspired by tales of scalable and robust websites using django and after hearing that Google's app engine would support python and django I decided that I needed to give this language a try.
I am in between homesite engines right now having abandoned both drupal and my mostly useless ruby on rails blog engine typo1, and I run a homeowners website that is going to be migrating to my hosting package in the near future, so I was looking for something robust, fast, and easy to modify. Allegedly python+django fits the bill, so I have been working to deploy django on my site5 hosting account only to find that damn fcgi isn't as easy as the ubuntu jeos vmware appliance running mod_python. I think that apache virtual hosts are way easier than trying to figure out if touch fcgi is going to work or not.
I set up the vmware player on one machine and after numerous hours of following this guide, (my piss poor spellings fault not the guides) I got mod_python, MySQL, django and nano up and running. Yeah nano, for the simple reason that vim is awful. After getting this appliance up and running I decided to take it home with me, but on fist boot I found that I only had loopback adapter, eth0 was nowhere to be found. I thought that it might be a byproduct of running the vm on a vista machine, but after several reboots of the appliance and a few Google searches I was able to determine that it was actually linux's fault. Apparently it keeps track of the hardware that you have plugged in previously and doesn't take kindly to being moved around. I followed some suggestions from the vmware forum, and was up and running in no time.
1It appears that after several months of hiding from the rest of the planet, this little blog engine decided to get with the damn program and update. I may go back, I did like the 2.x version I was on, it just wasn't very full featured by the standards of wordpress and the like.
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