April 2007

Podshow Dumped By Sirius!

According to this site, none of the Podshow shows are showing up on Sirius Satelite. I checked it out and couldn't find any trace of the shows. Beginning of the end?

Update: Found this on the Podshow website:

Ah well, I'll miss doing the Sirius shows. It was great while it lasted and thanks to P Dub and Brian Noe for all the help and hard work.

Mike

UC Radio

Update: From The Rock and Roll Geek Show

The Sirius Satellite Window is now Closed

April 24th, 2007

After 2 years of having a show on Adam Curry’s Podshow on Sirius Channel 102, Podshow and Sirius have terminated their relationship.

It was pretty cool to say I had a show on Sirius, even if no one listened. And it definitely didn’t hurt in getting interviews.

I am pretty bummed out but it was bound to happen sooner or later. 2 years was a pretty good run. I will do my best to continue to get quality guests on the show. (Actually, Shane will)

Partition Manager

I recently used the GParted partition editor to split and dual boot my Vista laptop. This (well, at least the version I used) is a Live Linux CD - you put it into your CD drive, reboot your machine, and run the editor. It then does its thing, and voila - your partitions are changed! It was a fairly easy process, but, as all these type of activities are, a bit nerve racking. When you're playing around with that much data, you wonder if it's going to come back alive. It did, though!

I haven't put Linux on my laptop yet, but I'm considering it. Hopefully the partition editor will work its magic again without any issues.

Before you use, though, backup, backup, backup!

Death of My Palm

A while back, my Handspring Deluxe got dropped. That took out the rightmost 7 or so columns of pixels. Not enough to warrant getting a new one. Then, something else happened (not sure quite what), and the screen was totally shattered. So, instead of running out and getting a new one, I tried using the PocketMod paper PDA. Although, from time to time I do miss the Handspring, the PocketMod does most of what I need to do, is battery free, and, best of all, is free! The only thing that I really do miss is having my address list with me all the time. However, my cell phone has my most common phone numbers with me, and I have a copy of my address list in my glove compartment. This happened to be a good step in simplifying and "greening" my life.

On a somewhat related note, I recommend the More Hip Than Hippie podcast if you're interested in being more environmentally conscious. They present a nice set of ideas to "green" your life without being preachy.

Radio Free Paraquat

Here's a playlist on RockErie of the Paraquat Songs. Hopefully the search engines will pick up on this one as well!

Update...bummer, deep linking is not allowed. Here's another try.

Too Many Files in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, I got an error of "Too Many Files", and it wouldn't even let me log on. I got this error after updating my distro. So I powered the box off, powered it back on again, and made this change that I found on the net. Hopefully it will fix this issue.

Basically, the operating system appears to be running out of file descriptors, for whatever reason. The default limit is 1024. I increased it

To get the current limit type:

    ulimit -n

To increase or set file descriptor limit per user, modify:

    /etc/security/limits.conf

For example, add:

    your_username hard nofile 32768

This should (hopefully) give you some more breathing space.

Windows Loses DVD Drive

So Windows Vista lost your CD or DVD drive too? Every so often, I go to use it, and it is missing. After a brief search, I found an interesting tip - put your machine to sleep, and wake it up again. I tried it as well, and the drive magically reappeared. Not the greatest workaround, but a lot faster than the shutdown-restart approach that I was using earlier.

Michigan Alligator

According to my aunt, a Michigan Alligator is a retreaded tire that you can find after it falls apart off of a tractor trailer rig and lies on the shoulder of the expressway. I have never heard of this myself, but I am putting this up here to see if anyone else has ever even heard of such a thing.

Rock Erie Chart List

Assault and Battery by Paraquat is #9 on the RockErie chart list! Click here and bring it up to #1!

Here's the chart list.

Strange Lincoln-Kennedy Penny

A while back, I found a strange penny with a face that someone stamped on it and some sort of glue material on the 'tails' side of the coin. After a bit of internet searching, I found some references to a penny that was stamped with John F. Kennedy's face on it (facing Lincoln's). After guessing that it could possibly be Kennedy, I found some information about it. Unfortunately, the coin itself is rather worthless, but kind of an interesting anectdote to history, anyway. Personally, I was hoping for some sort of weird conspiracy. Ah well.

Here is the best information that I found about this coin.

Julkalender 2005 and 2006 RSS Feeds

I deleted the RSS files for Julkalender 2005 and 2006. The files are still there for manual downloading, but the RSS feed is dead. Hopefully, that will remove some unnecessary downloads of the podcast, since it is not being updated, and not ever going to be updated. I still have the 'Your Freaky Life' RSS feed active, but may delete it one of these days.

Here are the links for all the episodes. Could definitely use some cleanup, though.

• Julkalender 2005
• Julkalender 2006