Moving day

I've moved to a new domain: cloud-ready.blogspot,com.  All 5 of my posts are linked to there as well.  Feel free to continue this journey with me over there.

Aimbot

I responded today to the Aimbot that keeps trying to IM me.  I had never done so before, and wanted to see what they would do.  The following is a transcript of our conversation (with anasan26.)  I love the internet.

		Friday, August 19, 2011			3:24
		anasan26		hello?			3:24
				Thursday, August 25, 2011			12:51
		anasan26		hey.			12:51
		anasan26		hello?			1:21
		Chris DiMartino		?			3:20
				Sunday, August 28, 2011			4:50
		anasan26		hi!			4:50
		anasan26		hello?			5:19
				Monday, September 5, 2011			11:27
		anasan26		heya.			11:27
		anasan26		hello?			11:56
				Monday, September 12, 2011			11:16
		anasan26		hi!			11:16
		Chris DiMartino		hi!			11:16
		anasan26		hey how are you today?			11:17
		Chris DiMartino		I'm swell! Hey how are you today?			11:17
		anasan26		I feel fabulous			11:17
		Chris DiMartino		As do I!  Fabulous indeed!			11:17
		Chris DiMartino		do you prefer monkeys?			11:18
		anasan26		i cant remember if we have talked before? 24f here. u?			11:18
		Chris DiMartino		45l			11:18
		Chris DiMartino		u?			11:18
		anasan26		oh... well whats up?			11:18
		Chris DiMartino		tiles			11:18
		anasan26		cool. im so bored. theres nothing to do. any suggestions?			11:18
		Chris DiMartino		what suggestions do you have?  How cool is it?			11:19
		anasan26		i got a idea. . i want be a stripper. but i dont know if im good enough			11:19
		anasan26		do you want to watch me strip on cam and tell me if im good enough?			11:19
		Chris DiMartino		I like fishing			11:19
		Chris DiMartino		and monkeys			11:19
		anasan26		ok you got to signup on this site so i can be sure your not a kid			11:20
		Chris DiMartino		preferably together			11:20
		anasan26		is that ok with you babe?			11:20
		Chris DiMartino		are you an orangutan			11:20
		Chris DiMartino		?			11:20
		anasan26		k babe just go here http://<naughty link goes here>			11:20
		Chris DiMartino		is that a yes?!			11:20
		anasan26		then at the top click the goId JOIN FREE button and make a login ok?			11:20
		Chris DiMartino		gorilla?			11:20
		anasan26		oh and one more thing. it does ask for a credit card but but it dosent charge the card at all			11:21
		anasan26		its just to make sure that your over 18 ok?			11:21
		Chris DiMartino		does it take travelers cheques?			11:21
		anasan26		k babe well hurry up so we can have some fun.			11:21
		Chris DiMartino		can I use my library card?			11:21
		anasan26		and if you want to have some naughty fun then just take me in private or tip me some gold.			11:21
		Chris DiMartino		I			11:21
		Chris DiMartino		I'm going to play farmville now			11:22
		anasan26		lets talk on the site my aim keeps messing up.			11:22
		Chris DiMartino		with monkeys

OsX Lion, cx_Oracle, and pain

Fought all afternoon trying to get cx_Oracle to play nicely with OsX Lion DP3.  It seems that the x86_64 libclntsh.dylib.10.1 library is segfaulting for some reason in Lion.  Finally figured out a solution - install only the i386 libraries, and then force OsX to prefer the i386 library version (though this is a universal setting, so it is not the best solution).

defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes

or via shell var:

export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes

Upgrading to Natty Narwhal

I'm in-process currently on the upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 -> 11.04 (beta).  I love that (almost) all Ubuntu upgrades tend to go smoothly.  Let's hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot by making that statement.

Natty marks the shift from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop for the OS of choice for many a geek.  I'm not sure that I'll be making the jump...  I have a lot of muscle memory invested in shortcuts for compiz. Some call it eye candy, but I very much use the compositing features in my work flow.  Grouping/Tabbing windows is a godsend on my 13" Macbook Pro screen, where real-estate is definitely at a premium.  And call me silly, but I now find that windows that don't "wobble" feel somewhat incomplete... an ersatz, juvenile imitation of a window.

Anyways, hopefully my upgrade is painless and has some nice new features to play with.

Ubuntu 10.10 + Liquorix == ZOOM

I've been craving getting my hands on a kernel running 2.6.37 (big power saving bugfix in there) with the awesome AUTOGROUP patch applied.  I was about to start down the path of building my own kernel from kernel.org with all of the ubuntu patches and fixes applied.  A daunting task... I don't really have time for that!

I came across the Liquorix repo, and decided to give it a try.  They are a "distro replacement kernel" repo.  They take the latest and greatest patches and apply them to the kernel to make an ultimate replacement kernel for desktop use.

So far, results have been good.  My only complaint currently is that cpu frequency scaling was disabled in this kernel for most modules, in turn causing my core2 duo proc not to scale.  Regardless, the battery life has been better than it was on 2.6.35 with frequency scaling enabled.  I'll be rebuilding the liquorix kernel with the frequency scaling reenabled soon.