2008-07-22
Posted in Web Wandering & Opinion
at 17:37
Introducing the Carnival of Elitist Bastards @ Café Philos
Probably best to read the link above, since I definitely don’t have time to write something anywhere near as good, but in short, it’s an introduction to Dana Hunter’s Carnival of Elitist Bastards which attempts to combat (or at least provide some resistance to) the apparent American tendency towards anti-intellectualism and a tendency to disregard what the experts say if it contradicts what people want to be true.
As I mentioned, the above introduction is much better than this little blurb and I highly recommend that you read it.
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2008-07-05
Posted in Geek Stuff
at 0:17
Ever wanted to use a VoIP client to answer phone calls over your traditional phone line instead of getting VoIP service? (Surprisingly difficult since everyone seems to want to use their crappy old phones on VoIP instead) Well, here’s the trick: Buy an FXO card like the Voxzone X100P and install the open-source Asterisk PBX software.
Not only do you get to use the VoIP client and high-quality $7 Skype-certified, noise-cancelling microphone of your choice, you can trap telemarketers in a voice-mail maze of your own fiendish design. 
This is a preview of
The Trick To Linux Speakerphone-building
.
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2008-07-02
Posted in Geek Stuff
at 0:06
I’ve been busy lately, but I can at least share a few noteworthy things I ran across.
- A faint background image in your terminal reduces eye-strain. (source)
- KDE users can use
kioexec to pass URLs as command-line arguments to non-KDE apps. (source)
set ttymouse=xterm2 will fix mouse support in Vim when you’re running it inside GNU Screen. (source)
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