In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws ( Read more... )

There's a very interesting security hole in GNOME. If a program is in a loop constantly asking for the keyring password, you can't kill it from the GUI. You have to enter the password to make it shut up. The password box for the keyring is modal and prevents you from interacting with all other apps.

Whoever ported Cave Story to the Mac left in the symbols!!!

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I've started work on a mod of Lua. Seems that everyone who uses Lua does this eventually... it's interesting how its internal simplicity leads to fragmentation ( Read more... )

I'm going to be using Twitter instead of LJ for most of my updating for a while at least. I rarely post what can't be summed up in 140 characters on this thing anyway.

I went with Scott to check out Acen. Since we couldn't be there Friday, it made no sense to preregister. Due to delays on the CTA, we got there around 12:15 PM. No problem right ( Read more... )

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If you have sound problems on Linux, do this:

(1) Install PulseAudio. Instructions for Ubuntu are here.
(2) Enjoy.

Seriously, PulseAudio needs to be set up as the default in Linux distributions now. Because it tries to emulate every known way for Linux apps to access the sound card (with the notable exception of aRts, but you can upgrade to KDE 4 ( Read more... )

"I play a lot of TF2 anymore."

This is a weird sentence, Dr. Dos. Half the class didn't know what it meant! Your dialect screws up semantic analysis of negative polarity items.

The prof said it was a rural Pennsylvanian dialectical thing. Has anyone else heard this? Dos is the only one I know who uses "anymore" this way.

edit: better example