http://www.trollop.org ~ Tea & Strumpets Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:17:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And this tidily sums up the court system in the U.S. (Via Criggo.) http://www.trollop.org/articles/2008/10/19/uhhh%e2%80%a6no/ I was going through my old screen-shots and discovered this gem from a social studies 11 quiz I took ages ago. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="384" caption="Conformity is Good! =D"][/caption] I also sent this to Noam Chomsky and he responded with "Stalin would have loved it." http://www.trollop.org/articles/2008/10/18/conformity-is-good/ After upgrading to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5, I found that my printers no longer existed. So I went to http://localhost:631 and tried adding my Gentoo CUPS printer share like I did before, but it refused to show up in the printers list. :( After some searching on the net, it ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/10/31/linux-printer-sharing-with-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ It seems that the developers at Flagship Industries have finally posted a fix to their Ventrilo client for Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. You know, the bug fix that takes all of 5-minutes to correct. However, they only fixed the problem in the main window and nowhere else. Here's what they ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/10/28/flagship-posts-ventrilo-update-for-os-x-105-sorta/ Well, after many years of using Typo as my main blogging engine, I have switched back to WordPress. I had initially started using Typo because it was the only Rails-based blogging engine out there. Unfortunately, the quality of their project seems to have declined over the years. After Typo decided to ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/10/26/migrated-from-typo-back-to-wordpress/ Anyhow, it seems that Ventrilo has decided to bow to the pressure of people from the Mac community, such as myself. I suppose they got tired of deleting all mine and related thread on how to fix this problem in 10 fricking minutes!Ventrilo had this to say: There is a known ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/10/26/ventrilo-bows-to-pressure/ As I have promised upon the release of Mac OS X 10.5, here is a patched version of Ventrilo for all us Mac users to download and enjoy! This version actually works and took me all of 10-minutes to fix. I have posted instructions for the Ventrilo developers in the past ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/10/26/patched-ventrilo-for-mac-os-x-10-5-leopard/ Well now, this bug has existed with Ventrilo for over a year on OS X 10.5. But guess what? I fixed it! Yes, I spent about an hour tooling around with the package contents of Ventrilo.app and found main.nib. I then opened this file in Interface Builder (part of ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/06/22/ventrilo-fix-for-os-x-10-5-leopard/ I don't know how my picture made it into wired, but it did and I am quite pleased! It is kind of amusing considering it only took me a few minutes with Photoshop and being bored in class. Wired Article BoingBoing links to the article too! http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/05/03/i-made-it-onto-wired/ In Hexadecimal: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 In decimal: 2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12,043 * 216,493 * 836,256,503,069,278,983,442,067 In binary: 00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000 As a 320x160 Image: (©Copyright Steffen L. Norgren 2007) The above ... http://www.trollop.org/articles/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/