09.27.07
Posted in Wordpress, blog at 1:37 pm by RedFlameOut
rss signature – smackfoo.com:
What is RSS Signature
That’s a great question. Sig2feed’s primary goal is to provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds. You can add any kind of message, tag, or even images — as long as it can be displayed in an RSS feed, it’s up to you. Cool huh?
I have been looking for something like this for some time. I know of no sites reposting my blog material in entirety from RSS feeds, but I do worry about it. It is MY content and I don’t want anyone using it improperly.
This plug-in adds a signature to each entry in the RSS feed. I plan on putting in a disclaimer and copyright notice. It won’t stop someone from reusing my posts but if they are scripting it, it will show up on every post.
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Posted in International, National, Politics at 8:59 am by RedFlameOut
TCS Daily - The 21st Century Slave Trade:
We all have a responsibility to work against the modern day slavery. As Wilberforce said over 200 years ago, “We are all guilty - we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others.”
Being compassionate individuals, we have to stop this. I don’t know what methods we should use, but it has to stop. It is the right of all persons to have the freedom to pursue happiness and well being — to live with dignity.
As a libertarian, I won’t advocate war although sometimes it does take force to correct a situation. The state is not the answer — we are.
Don’t sit by idly. If you know something, tell the authorities. If you live in an area of the world where slavery is the norm, protest it. Movements start small and grow.
In developed countries, we need to provide aid to the groups resisting the evil that slavery represents and report anything you know to the proper authorities. Again, the state is not the answer. Private charities with people working in concert, that is the answer.
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09.26.07
Posted in Entertainment at 12:20 pm by RedFlameOut
Isaac Mizrahi at Epicurious.com:
Isaac Mizrahi
“Our favorite designing man shows us his favorite appliances and accessories, and shares his secret for fabulous cabinets”
Isaac Mizrahi is a Brooklyn-born designer who launched his first collection in 1987. Since then, he has designed couture lines for Bergdorf Goodman, as well as a women’s sportswear and a home accessories line for Target. Mizrahi created costumes for movie, dance, and theater productions and was the subject of the 1995 documentary Unzipped. He has also starred in off-Broadway plays and hosted several television shows, including Isaac, which appears on the Style Network.
Epicurious as a video tour of ’s kitchen. Quite interesting…
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09.25.07
Posted in Computers, Software, Technology, Windows Vista at 10:16 am by RedFlameOut
PC World - 20 Vista Downloads to Tweak & Improve Your System:
20 Vista Downloads to Tweak & Improve Your System
There still aren’t a lot of downloads out there that can really improve Vista, but we’ve found twenty real keepers that will allow you to tweak it and improve your experience with the OS.
Preston Gralla
Nice overview of various downloads that you can use to tweak and improve your Windows Vista PC.
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Posted in Computers, Review, Software, Technology, Windows Vista at 10:09 am by RedFlameOut
Whip Vista into Shape - Review by PC Magazine:
Whip Vista into Shape
09.24.07 Microsoft Windows Vista is a pretty muscular operating system, but it still needs toning. These three utilities give your new OS more speed and endurance.
PC Magazine online has a good article on tweaking Windows Vista. Not as thorough as more technical sites, but good for what it covers.
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Posted in Computers, Personal, Technology at 6:45 am by RedFlameOut
LEDs for Beginners - Instructables Make Cool How To and DIY [category: tech]:
intro LEDs for Beginners
This instructable shows how to wire up one or more LEDs in a in a basic and clear way. Never done any work before with LEDs and don’t know how to use them? Its ok, neither have I.
Planning on upgrading my PC, I have been itching to do some case mods. Searching produced the above article at Instructables.com. I pretty much knew the content but it helped refresh my memory.
My current system consists of:
- Antec Nine Hundred case
- Seasonic S12 600 watt power supply
- ECS ELITEGROUP KN1 SLI Extreme motherboard (mainboard)
- AMD socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 3800+
- 4×512 MB DDR 400 memory (2 GB total) (don’t remember the brand)
- 2 500 GB ATA-100 hard drives (Seagate and Maxtor)
- 1 400 GB SATA II Seagate hard drive
- 1 320 GB SATA II Maxtor hard drive
- Recently purchased Leadtek WinFast PX8800 GTS TDH video card (was an ATI X1950XTX until my daughter needed a more powerful card and so I
got the new card).
- Lite-On DVD burner (don’t remember the exact model)
- Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit (upgraded from Windows XP Pro earlier this year)
Because of issues I have been having (on board LAN is now dead) and apparent load issues, I had to pull two TV tuners I had installed. I have enough power to run everything and it was working fine for quite some time.
Here are the new parts I plan on purchasing:
- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU
- Tuniq Tower 120 CPU heatsink/fan
- 2 sets of G.SKILL F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ DDR2 (5 5 5 15) memory (2×2GB for 8 GB total) (DDR3 is too expensive to go that direction yet)
- Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
- PCIe SATA/IDE card for the two 500 GB ATA-100 drives since the motherboard has only one IDE port and my DVD burner has to go there
Video editing, Photoshop, some programming, games — this should be able to do these for me easily. I picked the quad core that I can afford for the video editing and Photoshop work and from the reviews I have been seeing, it overclocks like a dream, which is why I picked the Tuniq Tower for cooling.
More memory will definitely help with video editing and Photoshop work. I may pick up a 750 GB SATA II hard drive for speed and capacity and move the two 500 GB ATA-100 drives to my server.
Alternatively, I may buy an ABIT IP35 Pro motherboard instead of the Gigabyte.
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09.24.07
Posted in DRM, Entertainment, Technology at 1:40 pm by RedFlameOut
DRM advocates getting nervous about consumer backlash:
You all know the slogan: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” At the Digital Rights Strategies conference in New York City, a similar message could be heard: “DRM doesn’t anger consumers, content owners abusing DRM anger consumers.”…
So true! I understand the want of DRM by the content makers. However, fair use is important. Since the sale is a license and not a transfer of ownership, the consumer must be able to backup their purchase. Or are the DRM proponents going to give a new copy of an accidentally destroyed work for a small fee?
I am against DRM. Educate the comsumer base, remove DRM, and come up with new, innovative business models please.
Found thanks to Ars Technica and Blue’s News.
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Posted in Software, Technology at 1:06 pm by RedFlameOut
Deepest Sender :: Firefox Add-ons:
Description from addons.mozilla.org:
Deepest Sender 0.8.0
by David Murray
Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come.
Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Note that the actual Deepest Sender website will always have the most up to date version.
Works with: Firefox Firefox: 1.5b1 – 2.0.0
I posted this from Deepest Sender. It is quite nice to be able to surf and then blog about something you find, directly from Firefox.
Home page of the Add-on
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09.19.07
Posted in Diet, blog at 5:54 am by RedFlameOut
Yeah, what happened? Well, I realized that logging in posts was not going to work. It would take three a day and a lot of work to look up the calories and nutritional information.
I have some amount of skill in PHP programming so I may try to make a plug-in for WordPress that will allow me to input all the needed information quickly but keep it on a separate page. Or maybe just a separate page with its own library of functions to handle its own tables. I’ll have to think about that one.
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Posted in Health, Personal at 5:48 am by RedFlameOut
For the last two days, I have had a sinus headache to beat all sinus headaches. My doctor believes I have a mild sinus infection and so now come the antibiotics. I feel great this morning and so of to work I go. You see, I left early on Monday and did not go in yesterday at all.
So, Claritin each morning, antibiotics twice a day, and Aleve for the pain (or Tylenol, my choice). At least that yucky yellow mucus has slowed to a trickle (no pun intended).
I was surprised the doctor did not tell me to use a sinus medicine. He said that Claritin was fine and would keep my passages from clogging up and I could take either Aleve or Tylenol based on my personal experience with them. He also said there was no need to provide more drug strength than actually needed. This is refreshing as in my experience, most doctors prescribe to cover the symptoms.
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