I deleted the uber-Tex package from my debian box and it seems to be letting me boot into a graphical interface again. I’ll throw that on my list of things that becomes a bit more complicated in linux than it really has to be.
I deleted the uber-Tex package from my debian box and it seems to be letting me boot into a graphical interface again. I’ll throw that on my list of things that becomes a bit more complicated in linux than it really has to be.
I’m looking for a list of Canadian children’s picture books published after the year 2000. Do you think I can find one? I can get award winners but not a definitive list. Should I be working on this or something? Amicus is not useful because they do not separate it by Canadian authors. I can’t search on Canadian cities either… (more…)
I seem to have broken linux somehow. Not just one distro but two. Gentoo is having issues whenever I ask it to create a terminal emulator and debian just simply won’t boot into any sort of a graphical interface. Part of me is seriously thinking of hanging it up and buying Linspire. Except for the fact that I’m cheap and… (more…)
Link to pdf file This is a 57 page document giving the history of Canadian governance. I really recommend this to high school teachers or first year university profs giving an introduction to Canadian Polisci course.
I haven’t actually gotten any email for the past 2 days. It turns out I set a 10MB quota on myself and didn’t realize I was over. But while fixing it I noticed something rather interesting. I have an IMAP server. That’s right. I have been using pop3 for almost 2 years now having to go into a web interface… (more…)
It seems debian is one of two distros (RH being the other) that does not have the required packages of wxpython that are needed to get ipodder up and running. Why this is the case when the wxpython people have released 2.6 is beyond me. I love debain but damn it’s frustrating when something that is relatively (in the internet… (more…)
The next time you try and circumvent debian by downloading iPodder directly from the website look at that handly little file innocently labelled README. In other news. It’s amazing a little difference in numbers can make. Say python2.4 instead of python2.3. This is why I have a love/hate relationship with my mornings off. I do really neat stuff that takes… (more…)
Canada’s SchoolNet / Rescol canadien This is today’s really neat site brought to you by the Canadian Federal Government: Your Tax Dollars Really Are at Work. I’m using it’s web directory to aid in updating the library’s homework site. They say there are over 7000 learning resources and they’re all indexed and searchable. Try looking up geography (hint: it’s under… (more…)
Starting from the weekly checklist way back on July 8th and moving around from there: The Senate does something useful! Frankly I think sea-doos and whatnot should be banned outright but I get curmudgeonly when it comes to my own peace and quiet at a lake. GPS and DGPS made easy. Yeah. Go figure that a document made in 2000… (more…)
Despite assurances in my mother’s mind that we are steadfastly ignoring her pleas to visit out of some hardheartedness, life is actually pretty damned full at the moment. Between Seraph and I we’ve had one weekend out of the last five or so at home where we could get chores done. Shopping for food and laundry does take most of… (more…)