My daughters sing the Ramones

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Chad

Here’s my 5 year old daughters, Jennifer and Kaitlyn singing along to Beat On The Brat by the Ramones.

They get off to a little bit of a rough start but eventually get in to the groove.


My girls sing the Ramones from Chad Davis on Vimeo.

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Gwibber

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Chad

What is Gwibber? Well, quoted from their website:

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg.

I only learned of this app ths morning, but was interested in checking it out because if it’s new support for identi.ca.

I’ve constructed a quick HOWTO about getting it installed on Arch Linux, but I’m sure the instructions could be modified easily enough to get it working on most distros.

Howto: Installing Gwibber on Arch Linux

I can be followed on multiple social networks:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/cdavis
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/cdavis
Plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/tuxstorm

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Netflix is keeping profiles

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Chad

I just recieved an email from Netflix that states they are keeping the user profiles that so many of their subscribers use.

I use their profiles for managing our queue, and thought that getting rid of them was a pretty bad idea, but I wasn’t going to do anything drastic, like cancel my service. Netflix is just too great. But like many, I am happy to here they are not eliminating profiles.

Here’s what they had to say:

We Are Keeping Netflix Profiles

Dear Chad,

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.

We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

-Your friends at Netflix

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Windows Server DNS question

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Chad

Using the internal DNS server(Windows 2003 Server), can I point a single URL from a legitimate domain to a certain IP address, while leaving all other variances of that domain pointing to their existing location?

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for.

http://www.notourdomain.com/ needs to route over the internet
http://inside.notourdomain.com/ needs to be routed over an internal VPN connection

Can it be done?

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I keep getting burned by Security Enhanced IE

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Chad

So I’ve created a wiki article to help remind me about it with the easy steps to remove it.

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Yet another social network – Plurk

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Chad

I’m not sure how to describe what exactly Plurk is, but it is similar to twitter, but different.

Well, I’m on plurk now too, you can follow my plurks here.

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Is twitter dead?

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Chad

It’s weird how attached I’ve become to this service, but connectivity to the service has been rather hit or miss for the last couple of weeks. And now it’s been completely unreachable since some point last night.

I understand that this is a free service and how can you really complain about something you get for nothing? Well, while I don’t consider twitter a service I would ever pay money for, but I’ve never been opposed to ads integrated with the tweets.

In this world of web 2.0 services, you either need to be able to scale to the demand or die a slow horrible death. It seems as though twitter is heading for the latter.

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Need to figure out why ScribeFire ‘Schedules’ posts instead of ‘Publishes’ them

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Chad

Every time I write a post using the Firefox plugin, ScribeFire, it schedules the post instead of actually publishing the content, even though I tell it to publish. Then the real kicker is I can’t figure out how to get it to publish via the WordPress control. If I tell it to publish, it just goes back to ‘Scheduled’. This is irrating.

Update: Ok, I believe I figured out why ScribeFire schedules the post. ScribeFire has it’s own timestamping functionality and my computers time is two hours ahead of the servers time, so wordpress won’t publish the story until the timestamp is equal to or greater than the ScribeFire timestamp.

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OOo Extension – Sun Wiki Publisher

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Chad

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on
MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki
markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently
with the Writer to a wiki page.

All important text attributes such as headings, hyperlinks, lists
and simple tables are supported. Even images are supported as long as
they have already been uploaded to the wiki site. An automatic upload
of images is currently not supported.

It is the perfect extension for all users who want to make existing
documentations and specifications available on MediaWiki servers. Just
load the document and call the Extension with ‘Send – MediaWiki
Server’. A dialog will guide you to publish your document.

Download: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher

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Getting Adobe Air and Apps to work on Arch Linux

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Chad

1. Download AIR-SDK from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
2.
Create a directory, e.g. “~/AIR-SDK”. Extract the AIR-SDK’s .tar.bz2
file in this directory (cd ~/AIR-SDK; tar jxvf
/path/to/adobeair_linux_sdk_a1_033108.tbz2) so that adl can be found at
“~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl”.
3. Create a directory, e.g. “~/app”. Use
“unzip” to extract the contents of an AIR application: cd ~/app; unzip
/path/to/application_package.air
4. Use adl to launch the application:

~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug ~/app/META-INF/AIR/application.xml ~/app

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