It’s been a while since I did one of these, largely because I didn’t have an internet connection at home, and though I’m still working on it we got a television signal and have thus watched a lot of DVDs lately. Don’t follow? Television these days IS CRAP! You might think there’s one of these […]
Author: sigg3
Drupal 7 it is
I’ve decided I want to go the full monty and install Drupal 7. "Why?" You ask, "my god, Sigg3, have you lost your mind? Here, have an ice cream while I talk to you, son. Look.. Nobody cares, alright? Whether it be Drupal this or Drupal that. Just install the damn thing. And get yourself […]
Today I wrote: 381 lines of code
Making a newsletter generator for the win32 cmd shell.. That’s right! I spent the better parts of yesterday re-constructing a php/xml website into "local HTML" that Microsoft Outlook could use, exchanging most of the background images, cropping and positioning with carefully crafted HTML tables anno 1998. Apparently MS Outlook can’t be arsed to follow ANY […]
A Revolution in Egypt, then we take Berlin?
Following the civil disobedience in Tunisia, the old American ally Egypt is about to fall. So far 8 people have been killed in demonstrations, more than 800 are imprisoned, an air plane is waiting to take Egypt’s dictator Mubarak and his unpopular son and successor out of the country. Some reports tell us that the […]
Migrating Sigg3.net to Drupal
Finally, I’ve started on the smallest baby-steps towards migrating the entire Sigg3.net empire to Drupal! And why not? The leader of the American Empire‘s on Drupal as well! You may think Drupal’s a bit over the top for a blog, but you’re only seeing the top of the iceberg. I’m like, seeing, the whole of […]
The changes that came unto us, like me on yo momma
I’ve been crap at blogging lately, I know. I’m all like, I’m about to blog right this minute when all of a sudden I just can’t be arsed. Though it’s more like: CAN’T BE ARSED! So I cancel on the mofo, words of wisdom* disappearing right into the browser cache, never to be seen again. […]
Quick Tip: Moving large files on smaller media
I picked up part of this tip from the GNU World Order podcast 6×02, in which Klaatu describes a rather unusual situation of having to move a larger than 4.7GB file on DVDs without compression between Linux PCs. Thinking about it, this situation occurs more often than I’d like to think. You see, I always […]
Habby Birthday day Wikipedia!
Wikipedia is 10 years old! Congratulations! Whatever you think about the controversies regarding Jimmy Wales, the editors of Wikipedia and their deletion policies, or the way the annual fundraiser is conducted; these bureaucratic issues pale into insignificance when compared to the humanitarian mission this project was founded on and is building on today. And no […]
My rant on Steve Gibson's rant on Truecrypt and Open Source Security
I have looked for new podcasts to subscribe to lately, and one of the new ones that I’ve just begun listening to is Security Now! on TWiT. The link is to the mp3 feed.The show features security researcher Steve Gibson of Gibson Research Corporation. Listening to their latest #282 podcast (48,8MB) on my cellphone on […]
Truckin' January 2011, Vol. 10, Issue 1: What's the Last 3 Topics?
With a Happy New Year comes another edition of Truckin’! Keen readers will have noticed that we’re entering the 10th year of Truckin’, champagne all around! I mean, it depends on how you count it, like Wikipedia turns 10 with regards to 10 years completed. Truckin’ on the other hand is celebrating its coming of […]