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 <title>New Blog</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've finally taken the jump away from Nucleus to Drupal. I've created my new blog on my other new (stupid) website www.unethicalblogger.com.

This site will stay up until I figure out a good means of migrating content over to Drupal.

In theory, you should be redirected shortly.
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 <category>General</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:45:44 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Bribing Bloggers, Better</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=122</link>
<description><![CDATA[I very rarely actually read other blogs (Chris Hanson, and David Young excluded). Ever. I have it hard enough wasting my spurious freetime between work, bleep work, actual open source work, stupid hacks, and half-finished projects, let alone throwing in the cavalcade of technology related blogs out there that aren't mine and happen to provide insightful commentary on MacHeist, too Heisty?, or Leopard's secret ingredient!, or Tim's latest LSD-induced Mac rumour?!, or any number of inane topics that are either 100% speculation, or 95% speculation, with 5% google ads. While I try my best not to agree with Todd Manning on anything (includin [...]]]></description>
 <category>General</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:00:39 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Kernel Panic At The Disco</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=121</link>
<description><![CDATA[VMWare Fusion isn't all teddy-bears and bunny rabbits, it has it's own respective WTFs to share with us all. 

I do most of my work on openSUSE, so this bug is a cute one to put it lightly. Grumble.

openSUSE dislikes Fusion     
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 <category>Video Cast</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jan 2007 05:51:51 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Incriminating Evidence</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=120</link>
<description><![CDATA[While I slept today, I put up an away message of: "thinking of all the different ways to destroy evidence"

Leaving it up as a joke, and a not-really-clever alternative to "Away" I received some interesting messages while I was out, from "evidence? what did you do?" to the weirdest one:
what sort?
the FBI cant do forensics on Linux systems, they have to outsource the job to a firm in Canada
so im guessing state goons are just as crummy if not worse
so if its HDD stuff I'd run a cron job to touch every file on the HDD (mess up all the timestamps), then delete them
then run a shredder with something like 20 overwrites
then set it  [...]]]></description>
 <category>Scratch</category>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:41:04 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Suspension of Disbelief</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=119</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I don't work for either VMWare or Parallels, as it turns out, neither has offered me a job
In my ceremonial replacement of the Parallels icon in my dock with the VMWare Fusion icon (Fusion or Fission) somebody left a comment telling me to hide my employment by VMWare, etc, marking my video as a blatant attempt at thrashing Parallels. Not only do I get about 200-400 hits a day (i'm exceedingly relevant to the industry), I don't work for VMWare. I simply have endured Parallels since it was released, and am happy that VMWare released a great competitor to the market. 

This video is of a prime example of where Fusion excels  [...]]]></description>
 <category>Video Cast</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:33:08 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Fusion or Fission</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=118</link>
<description><![CDATA["Fission? No, I haven't been fishin' since I was on Lake Erie"

VMWare's Fusion is a major leap forward compared to Parallels, and much less camera shy. Instead of writing some long out review, and listing the numerous reasons why Fusion blows Parallels out of the water, how about a silly video instead?

Parallels vs. Fusion     
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 <category>Video Cast</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:46:50 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Preventing Reader-Rage</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=117</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm reading a book I intend to write a review for before the end of the month on this very weblog, but I needed to vent/discuss something in the meantime.

Unless you're telling a god damned story, don't use the first person.

Blargh! It is annoying whole new level to be reading a bit of quite technical writing spattered with phrases like: "[In the code above] Additionally, I implemented blah blah blah explicitly to give the compiler a ..." Or something a bit worse, first-person conclusions: "I quickly discussed method overloading in blah blah blah" 

Albeit, I've not (yet) written a book, as a random dickbag on the internet it is [...]]]></description>
 <category>Literature</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:54:29 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Caution, Flammable</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=116</link>
<description><![CDATA[I think next time I need to get my hair cut I'm going to pull out a pack of matches, and just light my head on fire.

At least then I'm less likely to absolutely hate my haircut. Great Clips, why hast thou betrayed me?

Update: Here's what look like now     
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 <category>Scratch</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:47:26 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Apple strudel, and other things that don&apos;t traverse NATs.</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=115</link>
<description><![CDATA[NAT, or Network Address Translation, is the absolute bane of my existence (next to Barbara Walters of course). It finds itself near the upper-ends of lists like "technologies that frack my network code" and "reasons IPv6 will save us from ourselves," but what many of you don't know, is that NAT was designed by giant salmon with a bad attitude. Why, if it weren't for NAT, we might not get to enjoy such wonderous atrocities like "Universal Plug and Play" (UPnP).

UPnP, oh how I hate you, let me count the ways: Runs over HTTPU.
HTTPU is a silly acronym for an even sillier concept, HTTP over UDP which isn't really a standard, but an outd [...]]]></description>
 <category>Programmr</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:44:07 -0600</pubDate>
 
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 <title>Reticulating Spines and Other Wastes of Time</title>
 <link>http://bleepsoft.com/tyler/index.php?itemid=114</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just posted a message to the monodevelop-list of the same title, but I figured since there's about 7 people on that mailing list, I'd better post to my blog to ensure maximum coverage (9 people!). The actual mailing list posting can be found here, but I'll summarize. 

The splash screen loading messages in MonoDevelop are about as exciting as a 1040 tax form, so I created a patch to randomly display more interesting messages like:"Nerfing Pirates, Buffing Ninjas...""Zesting Oranges..."Adjusting Radiation Levels...""Locking Boxes...""Burninating the Peasants..."
There's quite a few more, and it's thoroughly entertaining to watch. To [...]]]></description>
 <category>Programmr</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:27:24 -0600</pubDate>
 
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