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OSS : Ubuntu 9.04
Posted by Compubomb On May 19, 2009 @ 3:25 am | Visited ( 29 )
Well, I suppose now is as good a time as any. I've since felt the need to give up using windows as
my primary operating system as everything I generally need to do these days is on linux. I've been
using Ubuntu probably for the last 2 yrs. I used to be an avid user of Mandriva, but I grew annoyed
at the prospect of having to redo my entire system on a regular basis. Ubuntu allowed me to avoid
fresh installs and just upgrade everything on my existing install. I'm currently on FIOS and I'm
able to access port 80, 22 so I'm able to host an http & ssh server. FIOS is great, especially
when you have 20/5 mbit connection. Unfortunately I can only use up about 10-15mbit of it since I'm
currently only using 802.11g to access this throughput. If anyone has any questions about my
experience with ubuntu just leave a message on the board. It seems to work on everything I've
installed it on. I don't understand why some people don't like it. On a tangent note, I also run
windows 7 on my other partition as my windows needs are satiated. I only dislike the fact that
windows 7 seems to have problems with Skype which is also another thing I don't like about
pulseaudio on Ubuntu 9.04 as skype still doesn't seem to behave all that well with. I don't consider
99% cpu usage on a laptop a very good idea--unless you want to burn up your computer.
Ranting : Twitter
Posted by Compubomb On May 13, 2009 @ 12:32 am | Visited ( 28 )
I just registered on twitter. I hope I don't go to hell for this 
twitter
Web Development : Got Paid
Posted by Compubomb On May 11, 2009 @ 12:58 am | Visited ( 52 )
So, I got paid on a contract job i was working on. Was about 7-8 days of solid straight work. I was
working with TCPDF generating invoices for a small Canadian telephone company. I learned about php
pdf generation, but most of all i learned about how cool TCPDF is to the point that i didn't have to
learn much but rather implemented their api and it did everything for me
Also put a PayMe page
on my site PayMe
Some of the people
who know me might want to donate to the Robert Kraig Fund as i could use some more money.
Life : Sinusitis Sucks
Posted by Compubomb On Sep 27, 2008 @ 10:25 pm | Visited ( 217 )
Once again, I've been spited by the ole mighty of wicked black fairy dust--sarcasm. I've recently
come down with a horribly nasty unpleasant sinus infection, the second this year thus far which also
happened last March. Money is tight and I'm fortunate to have had some spare kflex antibiotics. Only
have halve the dosage-time but I've used it for just this event on numerous occasions. Roughly every
year or every 6 months basically twice a year I get these dreadful infections. They suck.
Essentially at least with the flue, you get it, and you know within 2 weeks if you are healthy it
will go away, Sinusitis on the other hand is one of those things which lingers on and on and on
until you get either a combination of steroids plus antibiotics or just antibiotics. My head hurts,
my cheeks hurt, my bones ache and I have a temperature north of 100F less than 102F. The worst part
about all of this is I have my Course work to work on, and something in my world always comes up to
try to stab me in the back when I'm just moving up the latter so to speak.
Tech News : New Invention!!!
Posted by Compubomb On Sep 01, 2008 @ 6:51 pm | Visited ( 223 )
I just invented the word or so I think I did. Twitterific Fritter Freak! so all
those of you who are twitter whoring yourself out, you get to say, so what, I'm a TFF'er
Life : I Hate Drugs
Posted by Compubomb On Aug 06, 2008 @ 6:32 pm | Visited ( 242 )
So, now that I'm over this kidney stone, after having taken some order of magnitude i think 10+ or
so pills of vicodin in a 50 hour period i seem to have developed some kind of acetaminophen
tolerance. Herein lies the problem, I normally take Tylenol Arthritis for my ankle during the day to
help alleviate pain in my ankle and use Ibuprofen to work down the swelling as an anti-inflammatory.
Now Tylenol is no longer working, and i fear it's because the dosage of the vicodin from the
acetaminophen. I normally take only 1 to 2 doses per day, totaling like 700mg of acetaminophen, and
roughly the same of ibuprofen. So.. Who knows, maybe I'm just in a bit more pain than normal. Drug
abuse is one of those things i don't take lightly which is something i avoid as much as humanly
possible. I'd rather push through it then numb it.
Life : Kidney Stones are fun!
Posted by Compubomb On Aug 04, 2008 @ 2:38 am | Visited ( 214 )
So, earlier today, I passed a kidney stone the size of a small pebble. You wouldn't imagine
something so small would wreak havoc on your kidney but your kidney is designed to excrete fluids,
not solids. The process took me a whopping 50 or so hours during which I was mostly medicated on
5mg/500mg Vicodin. And no, I only took 1 at a time, totaling 10 pills during 50 hours, so roughly 1
pill every 5 hours or so. Vicodin sure does have a way of making you constipated, that is definately
for sure. Anyways, that was fun, now I'm hopping the next time it happens is when I'm in a grave. At
least then, I probably won't feel it.
Site Updates : REST & Jquery
Posted by Compubomb On Jul 19, 2008 @ 7:43 am | Visited ( 252 )
So, I've implemented REST urls & implemented a Jquery menu for Links, Category, and Archive. All
the urls now look like so url.com/controller/arg1/val1/arg2/val2 It's pretty nifty.
Correction: I guess i didn't actually implement REST, i only made my urls friendly. Either way, i
find it nifty.