http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob UV geek in residence Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:32:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (You can listen to these tracks on Rhapsody for free -- click here and download their free player when asked.) I. Great Albums ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Washington Square Serenade by Steve Earle Cut: City of Immigrants I'm sad to see Texas-born Earle moving further afield, leaving "Guitar Town" ("This place never been my ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2008/02/18/the-best-music-of-07-according-to-a-guy-who-thinks-green-day-is-kind-of-new-and-hip/ The usual business of life (coaxing food out of the earth, getting where we need to go) requires a lot of work. But we use fossil fuels to do all the work of life for us (while making the earth less hospitable, especially for poor people in tropical countries). ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2007/07/28/why-exercise-is-the-dumbest-thing-ever/ (OK, I realize CygWin is not linux, but I'm not making up another category -- this is filed under linux troubleshooting). I haven't found any kind of a 'chsh' facility in CygWin, so I did it by hand. I edited /cygwin/cygwin.bat, replacing the line "bash --login -i" with "tcsh -l" ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2007/01/29/select-shell-in-cygwin/ Hi all -- this year I subscribed to a streaming music service, so I could listen to albums without buying them. So I heard far more new music this year than I usually do, and it turns out I liked a lot of it. Sure, an embarrassing fraction ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2007/01/28/best-tracks-of-2006/ bogofilter is a facility for filtering email, declaring each to be either spam or ham. But the docs expect a lot of the user. They don't really hold your hand through a failsafe way to install and use bogofilter; instead they just tell you what it's all about ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/11/25/bogofilter-and-rmail/ Soon after I installed Fedora Core 5 (FC5) on my server, I found that after a reboot httpd would not be running even though my SYSV startup system should have been starting it. I subsequently found if I ran '# httpd' from the command line as root it would ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/09/11/httpd-starts-from-command-line-not-from-startup-script/ OK, I'm not writing these posts with the expectation that any of my friends will want to read them, but in the hopes that they get into google and help some stranger somewhere solve a problem. I installed lyceum blogging software (it's a multi-user variant of wordpress) on my web server ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/09/11/a-head-scratcher-mysql-wordpress-lyceum-innodb/ I've spent the week in front of my computer, mostly reading Craig's List ads for web programmers. After hours of composing replies, all I have to show for it is one 2nd interview (via email) and one guy who called and said he may call again if he ever ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/08/25/bustin-out/ Hey everybody -- I spent yesterday at a Water Recycling Workshop, held at an organic farm/think tank at Cal Poly Pomona. But the workshop was actually delivered by a Northern California outfit called Solar Living Institute which tries to help people apply green living ideas to their everyday lives. ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/08/05/the-water-recycling-workshop/ It took me about 8 hours to get through the steps in the "Five Minute Installation Instructions" document, but now we have blogs at Urban Village! I probably won't blog here much; my main way to communicate with the wider world is through the Bobologue which doesn't quite fit the rules ... http://urbvil.org/blogs/bob/2006/08/05/im-so-glad-i-got-the-blogs-working/