Have you ever received an instant message from a stranger with the words Coho, Trout, or Salmon in their screen name? If the answer is yes, then you’ve been picked up by Project Upstream bot. Did you dig the hook in deep by starting a conversation…or perhaps an argument? I have run into a few Coho’s so far and they’re usually good for interesting conversation.

I read this article and my mind started churning away, thinking up new ideas for home networking appliances that I could create and sell, but then I ran into this part and started scratching my head because something just didn’t sound right immediately.

I usually make my boot partition ext2 because it doesn’t stay mounted and doesn’t get written to unless i’m installing a new kernel or tweaking the options like vga=0×317 or whatever. But strangely enough, when I boot, grub sees the boot partition, grub.conf, and the kernel and loads with no problem. But when I try to mount /dev/sda1 from a shell it doesn’t seem to know what i’m talking about!

There’s a bunch of woot-like sites owned by Liberty Media Corp, or atleast they’re owned by one of the many companies that Liberty owns. I do like Backcountry.com (which is a great ski/snow/skate/outdoor/kayak/etc. store). But then they have these one-deal-at-a-time sites like whiskeymilitia.com

What the frack is a drum alarm?! I just started seeing this ad pop up on my site all the time with the image of a blue barrel and a little white keypad thingy on it and i can’t help but wonder what it is!!!

Weeks and weeks after throwing away the boxes that my stuff arrived in, I got the email from amazon asking me to review my recently purchased crap. So I just got done reviewing a couple of things I bought; a cpu heatsink, ethernet over power (a.k.a. powerline) adapters, and a saitek backlit keyboard on amazon. The email asked me to write a review of x, y, and z. But then after my first review I noticed …

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.

I’m doing all my python development in Eclipse using the pydev plugins.  At random and without warning, Eclipse keeps freezing on me!  WTF.  Here’s what I get when I kill it:
JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/gij
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
–launcher.library /usr/lib64/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.0.v20070606/eclipse_1017a.so
-startup /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-exitdata 838010
-vm /usr/bin/gij
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
This happens on Fedora 8 and …