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Beyond Mud-slinging

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“Make no mistake. These aren’t just a few errant, later-regretted remarks, the kind that people tend to blurt out in the heat of campaigns. As this article shows (free reg req), it’s a calculated and scurrilous effort to suggest that anyone who questions the Iraq debacle is unpatriotic.”

Link: Dan Gillmor’s article in San Jose Mercury News

It boggles my mind how anyone can think that opposing the Iraq war, or at least the stated reasons for going there, is unpatriotic. To swipe a line from Princess Bride:
Bush&Co: Unpatriotic!
Sane People: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Red Hat throws a hissy-fit at Sun

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If you haven’t heard, Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann has responded to Sun exec Jonathan Schwartz’s blog entries that more or less talk trash toward Red Hat in a big way. It’s all pretty amusing, particularly because a response such as Tiemann’s likely plays right into Schwartz’s hands, and makes Red Hat look pretty childish, too. Schwartz is a smart guy; I’m guessing nothing goes into his blog without prior careful consideration. El Reg has an article/tribute/review of the whole thing here. Oh, and how the heck did we get on the topic of Java when JS’s original, er, flame was about Open Source vs. Open Standards?

About i-node one

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Without getting into what exactly an i-node is, suffice to say, simply, I chose it as the site’s name for its geek appeal.

“Okay, so what about the snow leopard (panthera uncia)? What the heck does an i-node have to do with a small, endangered Asian cat?” you say. Or, more likely, you don’t say. More like, “Who cares?!“? Understandable. :) The cat is my totem animal, or spirit guide in some lexicons.

The connection between the two? Me. I spend my working days, and a good bit of my personal time, mucking about in Unix-land, being a geek — surviving — teaching the finer points of “Do what I want, not what I say… argh!” to those lovely, hulking collections of fiber-glass, plastic, solder, and silicon. Along the way I try to do some living — carpe diem, etc — and that’s where the snow leopard helps out. Of course, living in California helps, too.

Actually, living in California helps a lot, but that’s another story . . .

Revenge of TikiWiki

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I should’ve expected as much, really. Post a blog entry in the old blog-place saying I’ve migrated to other software and, the next day, the only other person who uses the site can’t login any more. What’s more, none — and I do mean none — of the password reset techniques works. Well, except one: upgrade to the latest development code.

The latest code allows the admin user to reset any user’s password without the need to know their existing password, which is stored as a one-way MD5 hash; something the previous versions couldn’t do, at least not so directly or easily. There was one trick in the old version that worked once before: use a “hidden” URL and a specially-crafted “old password”, and voila! Too bad it didn’t work this time.

I guess if the development code is good enough for the public TikiWiki site (tikiwiki.org…) it should do well enough for me.

Then again, maybe tomorrow the admin account won’t work any more…

Migrated from TikiWiki blog

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Apparently I got the “it’s not pretty or fast enough” itch this weekend with respect to TikiWiki, in particular the blog section. Don’t get me wrong; I still love the Wiki part of it. It’s just that it was a bit of overkill for weblogging and it kinda got in the way of itself as a result. I wanted something with a more blog-centric existence, commensurate development, and presentation features/tools. That said, I wish WordPress would grok Wiki markup (I don’t mean the DoubleCaps bit — could actually care less about that). Kinda funky to learn but awfully handy for taking care of the “ugly” HTML/CSS work.

Just finished migrating all my blog entries, and their comments, a little while ago. Not exactly fun but it motivated me to hack a few things to make ’em easier to do (mostly the Quicktags) and look a little better (tables and CSS boxes). Still not perfect, but close enough for now.