"Better Vulpines through Technology."

"Didn't I meet you in some other hallucination???"

Sun Mar 31 14:29:20 CST 2002

Well, I've been having fun with my new cellphone. First I spent a nice long while entering everyone into my phone. Then I spent even longer adding email addresses. Then I went to SuperMegaPhone (thanks Wes) and downloaded a few ringtones for my phone. Specifically the theme to Red Dwarf, Carmen Buranda (aka the theme to Omen) and the one I've been dreaming of, Tubular Bells (aka the theme to the Exorcist). That's what I have on the phone, and boy is it spooky when the phone rings and your asleep ;) Fun fun fun.

More Sluggy Fun	Sun Mar 31 14:22:33 CST 2002

Sluggy Fun	Tue Mar 26 12:00:21 CST 2002
Here is Pete's comic (with my add-ons). Is it not nifty ? Worship the comic. ;)

Fun at work

Sun Mar 24 23:25:11 CST 2002

I had an intresting surprise last week. On Thursday our mail servers went karfluki. Slow sending and receiving of email, progressively getting worse. I got a customer who couldn't receive email...ok, no big deal, test message from my work account. Nope. On a whim, I sent a 'mail -v' from kitsune, to see what the errors from the server were, if any. Well, the inbound servers were defering connections to the next server...all 12 of them. So the mail was queueing...that's bad. I tell my boss, and then fill out a report for the Network Ops and Systems peoples. Back to work, mostly telling people that yes, mail is down, no we don't have an ETA, it will be back up shortly. Finish up my day and go home. The next day I go into work, and my super is there...and he wants to talk to me. Oh no...then he leads me into the VP of Customer Care's office....oh SH*T !!! what did I do ? And I get a nice congratulations and a well done from the VP, on how well I noted everything, and troubleshooted the problem, and that I was the first person to figure out it was a problem, not just slow email. So I get a nice note in my record from the VP, for a job well done. I was a very happy fox. Now if I can just transfer off the floor...I'll be an esctatic fox :)

Resident Evil	Sun Mar 24 16:21:22 CST 2002
Well I went to see Resident Evil on Friday. Well, it was...special. No plot, little acting, lots of violence. LOTS of violence. A whole lot of violence. Blood everywhere, killer zombies, undead doggies. Gotta love it. Since I've never played the game, I don't know how well it matches the game, but for a bad horror movie it wasn't bad. I give it 3 shambling cadavers. :)

New Cell Phone

Sun Mar 24 15:40:46 CST 2002

Well, I'm leashed again. I got a new cellphone, one of the Nokia 5165's. It's nice, almost the same as my old one...but a few more features, like being able to send emails amd add ringtones. Tres cool. :) I need to pick up a few things, like a new faceplate and a belt clip, and a spare battery or two...especially because I'm thinking of disconnecting my home phone and using this exclusively. I'd save money, and it would be more useful. Still pondering that.

Screenshot madness :)

Fri Mar 22 00:22:28 CST 2002

Well, we got silly on #dfwufies. Compairing screenshots and all, and of course...I had to throw my two cents in. The shot on the left is Techie's (of no working website right now) and the one on the right is Needo's. I think mine is cooler.

Btw, you can see my new GAIM client running, running ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and now Jabber. Yep, you can chat with me at vulpine@jabber.org if you don't like the other 3 ;) Silly me ? Yeppers :)

Big Fox News

Sun Mar 17 14:21:10 CST 2002

Well, I've got some big news for people. As most people reading this know, I have issues with clinical depression. Well, I finally went to the doctor, talked to him about options. Well, we decided that I'll try a drug called Effexor. It's an antideprssent, that seems to work very well, according to what I've read. I've only been on it a short while, haven't noticed any major mood changes. I have noticed some side effects though, including nausea and weird dreams. But for the most part nothing too bad. So we'll see. Maybe this will help, I really hope it does...the stress and the depression, and life in general has been wearing me down. So, we'll see...

Gaim, LICQ, and messengers in general

Sun Mar 17 13:19:44 CST 2002

Hey there boys and ghouls. I recently upgraded GAIM to v 0.54, and on a whim, decided to try playing with the ICQ and Yahoo Messenger plugins. Wow, they work. I've been a big fan of Licq for years, but the changes that AOL made to the service has made it buggy at best, and more often than not, unusable. So, finding a package that works well is a very good thing (tm). Also, the new Gaim code comes with a nifty script to take licq contact lists, and turn them into a GAIM buddy list. Woohoo, I had this nightmare of switching 115 ICQ contacts to gaim. So now I'm on GAIM as 3 people.

AIM: Vulpine137

ICQ: 9953685

Yahoo Messenger: Vulpine137

I need to add a few more, see what other plugins work well. :)

Sig-Generator	Thu Mar 14 17:11:17 CST 2002
Yet another fine foxwerks.cyberfox.org product. I went ahead and finished my sig-generator project, didn't take much...I coded more than I remembered. Go ahead and download it, play with it, send me additions... :)

Foxshot.sh posted	Wed Mar 13 15:40:12 CST 2002
The foxshot script has been posted to foxwerks.cyberfox.org. Go ahead and download it, and play around :)

FoxShot

Wed Mar 13 00:29:15 CST 2002

Hey boys and girls, the fox has been busy. Last night, after mozilla bashing for a while, and taking the previous screenshot, I got thinking about creating an automatic screenshot. Now Tom Gilbert has one called scrot, which is quite nifty...but due to some lib foo on my end, I can't use anymore. So I wrote my own using bash. It imports the screenshot, makes a thumb nail, and scp's it up to my server. One command, instead of the 4 or so it took before. It's amazing how much of my coding is due to sheer lazyness on my part. ;)

Here's another screenshot, a test of the script.

Nothing new, other than the script itself...but I'm damn proud of it. The code will be up on foxwerks.cyberfox.org tomorrow day probably, once I finish commenting it. :) And I've almost got my sig file generator done as well, so I'll post that as well. Check back here for more.

Mozilla-0.9.9

Tue Mar 12 00:57:15 CST 2002

Ye flippin' gods...I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.9 tonight, thought I'd do a quick install...that was two hours ago. Been compiling forever...I've seen kernels compile faster...hell, I've rebuilt machines faster than this. I got so bored, I played around with my desktop background, and just to make things slower...took a screenshot.

Still working on compiling...maybe by tomorrow... *laugh* For the curious, the background is a gimped up image from the Propaganda collection, and my "new" default theme, BlueSteel...which as long time fans will recall, was my original Enlightenment theme. The more things change, the more they stay the same. :)

Bored bored bored bored bored.	Mon Mar 11 17:22:34 CST 2002
I'm damn bored...nothing new happening in my life, well, yes there is, but I ain't ready to post it yet ;) Gotta be a tease. I'm about to rebuild my Windows box, and add Linux so I can have a machine to experiment on... note that about translates into "someday" ;) Maybe I can figure out some of the toys I want to run on Kitsune, like Mplayer. Oh well, one of these days I'll get it built :)

Fennec Upgrade

Sun Mar 10 00:38:12 CST 2002

In my quest to slowly create a terabyte file server I went ahead and added the 20 gig drive out of Reynard's corpse, swapping it out for one of the 8.4 gig drives. The 8.4 will eventually go into a Linux/Windoze dual boot system I'm plotting. But that's in the future. For now though, Fennec has the following drives.

60 gig

That's 149.3 gigs of space (less formatted). Mostly for linux source files, Mp3's and other Multimedia. I need a few more 60 gigs, fix all the space issues...but for now, this is good :)