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Hello labor day activity: How to build a linux system from scratch

The most Linux on 1 floppy disk

thc has some cool script kiddie tools.

Esp. this and this. I'll have to also give THC-Parasite a try.

Went to Mason City yesterday to see Mom. I rode my bike on the Lime Creek trails and looked at cool houses.

Today I ran 2 miles and mowed the lawn.

When you have nothing exciting to do:
Intercal. A funny paper about Intercal.

Watched Samurai Trilogy 1: Musashi Miyamoto. Looking forward to the next 2.

I've been reading about sprouting:

sprouting: brief overview
Johnny's selected seeds
sprouting books

Heard from Spenser. As of yesterday, he's in Havre Montana. That's 3 weeks and about half way from Ames Iowa to Portland Oregon on bike. He seems to be
doing well.

Check out this and the slashdot discussion.

If you want to send me encrypted messages, please verify that you get my public key from a valid source.

Key Escrow will not survive.

Talked to John Morris last night.

His web business is doing good but is slow and needs some upgrades. I'll be helping with some sys-admin stuff.

Wed 8/23 ??:?? - Bama and his wife had a baby girl: April Elise Wilson.

After listening to Jazz all day, Punk Rock kicks ass.

I get eye surgery on 9/11. goodbye glasses.

Listening to the Fugazi Instrument soundtrack. sublime.

Reading Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan. interesting.

Cleaned the inside of my car.

Brought most of my Jade plants back inside. I hope being outside for a few weeks killed all of the mealy bugs!

Dad and Pam visited this evening. We ate at Bali Satay House and I got to drive their new Corvette.

The weather is beautiful. Couldn't ask for better. Looks like next week will get back up to 90 .

Updated resume
Added TODO list
Added Jabber info to contact information

mowed the lawn. washed the car. washed the dishes. lala.

More pictures. With all the pictures I'm taking, I'm going to have to automate their scaling, storage, and HTML presentation. I think I'll work on that next week along with an integration with the weblog and its publishing/editing features.

Jabber is going to slay. Check out jabbercentral.com for clients and check me out as bohnsack@jabber.org

I'm playing with PyWX, a plug-in for the open-source Web server AOLserver that allows the interpretation of Python scripts within the AOLserver process. I love Mason, but am exploring other options and have always wanted to learn more Python.

Ripping DVDs into DivX

Freshmeat has an article on Deadlines and Due Dates in software development.

I've put up the first pictures I took with my digital camera. Nothing really cool. A lot of randomness. I had to use a windows box to extract the pictures from the compact flash memory:(.

I think the thing will take really good pictures once I read the users manual.

My new digital camera has a cool USB
Compact flash reader thing. I'm looking into getting this working on Linux.

Resources:
gphoto
Linux USB

Linux (2.4.0-test6) sees the thing:

sb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
usb.c: kmalloc IF c40f8ec0, numif 1
usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=14, Product=14, SerialNumber=4
usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID 0x409
Manufacturer: LEXAR MEDIA??@???
Product: LEXAR MEDIA??@???
SerialNumber: 1.00?LEXAR MEDIA??@???
usb-storage: Searching unusual device list for (0x5dc, 0x1, 0x1)...
usb-storage: -- did not find a matching device
	
...
	
sb.c: unhandled interfaces on device
usb.c: USB device 2 (prod/vend 0x5dc/0x1) is not claimed by any active driver.
  Length              = 32 (!!!)
  DescriptorType      = 01
  USB version         = 1.00
  Vendor:Product      = 05dc:0001
  MaxPacketSize0      = 8
  NumConfigurations   = 1
  Device version      = 0.01
  Device Class:SubClass:Protocol = 00:00:00
    Per-interface classes
Configuration:
  bLength             =    9
  bDescriptorType     =   02
  wTotalLength        = 0044
  bNumInterfaces      =   01
  bConfigurationValue =   01
  iConfiguration      =   00
  bmAttributes        =   80
  MaxPower            =   90mA
	
  Interface: 0
  Alternate Setting:  0
    bLength             =   45 (!!!)
    bDescriptorType     =   04
    bInterfaceNumber    =   00
    bAlternateSetting   =   00
    bNumEndpoints       =   02
    bInterface Class:SubClass:Protocol =   ff:00:04
    iInterface          =   03
    Endpoint:
      bLength             =    7
      bDescriptorType     =   05
      bEndpointAddress    =   82 (in)
      bmAttributes        =   02 (Bulk)
      wMaxPacketSize      = 0040
      bInterval           =   00
    Endpoint:
      bLength             =    7
      bDescriptorType     =   05
      bEndpointAddress    =   03 (out)
      bmAttributes        =   02 (Bulk)
      wMaxPacketSize      = 0040
      bInterval           =   00
usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug add 2
usb.c: kusbd policy returned 0x0

This may be an oppertunity for me to write a driver.

Last night it was finally cool. Boy did I sleep well. The rest of the week looks good too. Lows in the mid 60s.

My new digital camera arrived here today. In Ames that is. I gotta wait till tomorrow morning to pick it up from UPS. I hate that.

http://www.dcresource.com/ has a good review of my Nikon Coolpix 990 vs the Olympus C-3030Z.

My new roommate, Brett Flynn, is a dork. Check out his lame webpage.

Spenser has been gone for more than a week. I got a post card from him. I think he's going insane.

Read this.

How old is this page? Note the links to akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/. I remember going to akebono.stanford.edu. I think Brad Hein showed me it first.

It's as hot as Hades and has been for the past few weeks. My central air is broken and I don't feel like forking over the cabbage to fix it. Things wouldn't be so bad if the climate controls at work weren't set to arctic temps. It's difficult to adjust to sleeping in 85 degrees when you'vebeen working all day in 65.

I've added more pictures and added some descriptions to the July 2000, Lake Trout fishing on Dubawant Lake in Nunavut Canada page.

I need new glasses. They're really scratched and I think a new perscription is in order. It seems my glasses always are scratched , broke, or bent.

Screw glasses.

I have a pre-Lasik consultation next Tuesday.

I've put up some of the photos from my trip to Lake Dubant last month.

I've got a bunch more to scan yet and will give each picture a full description after I get them all up.