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Comment on Jazz Camp by Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:03:37 +0000

I’m not sure where they’ll be doing the next one. All I really heard is that Masterson’s, the restaurant that they had handling the meals might be up for sale. So the new owners might not be up for the same arrangement, which could present a problem for providing a meal plan. There’s a chance nothing will change, and it’ll be the same place next year. I’m not sure if they would move it to a different city due to that or not, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon.

Comment on Jazz Camp by Michael Waters

Michael Waters — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:59:55 +0000

That sounds like a great workshop, where will next year’s be? Thank you for the entry and the great photos!

Comment on Back to Gentoo by The Third Half » Blog Archive » Battery Life and Other Nonsense

The Third Half » Blog Archive » Battery Life and Other Nonsense — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:16:50 +0000

[...] I mentioned before, I have switched my laptop to Gentoo again after getting a new battery for it. When I first finished my Gentoo install there was this [...]

Comment on Solar Powered Web Server by shades

shades — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:31:09 +0000

this is such a great idea.

Comment on An Open Letter to Tor Users by Ben

Ben — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:48:12 +0000

Thanks for your reply. I’ve been kind of busy, but eventually I’ll take a look at the Gentoo Tor’s default torrc, and verify whether or not it was set up that way by default. (Thinking about it, there’s a good chance this was my own error.)

I may consider just allowing exiting to 80 and 443, but for now I’m going to stick to running a middleman node (possibly two). These two can still be abused, of course, but the biggest issue is probably piracy via things like BitTorrent. I’ll think about it more when I don’t have a universitie’s terms of service to worry about.

Comment on An Open Letter to Tor Users by Tor

Tor — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:05:59 +0000

Tor should default to a safe configuration like middle or bridge. If there is any implementation of Tor that doesn’t do this they should change it.

Trying to restrict file sharing by exit policy port is a losing battle; if you’re concerned about any kind of DMCA/legal service you should try exit 80 and 443 at most until the risks are more known.

Comment on Back to Gentoo by Ben

Ben — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:46:46 +0000

Go for it, you can always do your Java on Gentoo. I know what you mean about the time, though; it took a bit of work to get everything the way I want it. But it’s nice, very fast.

Comment on Back to Gentoo by Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:23:12 +0000

glad to hear. As of recently, I’ve noticed how shitty the windows kernel is, and I’ve been meaning to throw gentoo on my box…another messed up windows intsall…but I’ve been doing alot of java programming recently and there is no time. anyways glad to hear you run gentoo again.

Comment on Decent Toshiba CPU Speed! by Ben

Ben — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:23:12 +0000

Yeah, that problem was bothering me for a long time, glad you were able to get your’s working too. It would have been nice if there were more documentation, but I guess it might not have been a very common problem.

Comment on Decent Toshiba CPU Speed! by Michel Huisman

Michel Huisman — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:38:51 +0000

I had the same problem with my Toshiba Tecra M1 after replacing the motherboard. Stuck at 598 Mhz. First I made the bootfloppy and with that floppy i made a bootable cd (i dont have a built-in floppy drive). After running my M1 is working great again! Thanks!