My favorite FTP client for Windows, Filezilla, is being ported to Linux for the release of Filezilla 3. Linuxedge has a preview of Filezilla 3 on Linux built from CVS.
Pretty cool, I’ve been a big fan of Filezilla for years, though gFTP seems to work fine for me on my Linux desktop. It looks GNOME-HIG compliant, and will be interesting to test out.
As I mentioned in my last post, screwing around with my Ubuntu repositories has messed some stuff up on my system. Most of my Mono apps no longer work, with the exception of Tomboy.
This past Sunday, I was modding another Xbox, and unzipping ROM files like a madman, when I ran out of disk space. 60 gigs goes fast, especially with all the music and photos on this machine, as well as a few games.
I have a 20 gig installed as a secondary drive, where I keep a development version of Ubuntu running. I haven’t booted in to that drive a while.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to contribute something to Ubuntu this year. Whether it’s writing documentation, bug hunting, or on the wiki, I need to do something. (God knows I can’t right code). More on that in another post.
How do these all tie together? Today I began the process of backing up my stuff on this machine, and I’m going to swap out hard drives and reinstall. I debated about just throwing in an extra hard drive replacing the 20 gig to fix my space problem and mounting that, but I discarded that option. I’m going to get a 120 gig drive as my main hard drive to run Ubuntu 5.10 as my stable operating system, and make the 60 gig drive run the latest development version of Ubuntu, Dapper Drake.
So tonight I’ll swap out my CDRW for a DVDRW, remove and add a hard drive, and re-install Ubuntu a couple of times.
Fun!
I wanted to upgrade the to the latest Banshee music player something fierce. I’ve been meaning to blog about Banshee for forever and a day, but with the latest tarball out, that includes plugin support, especially Audioscrobbler, I tried to upgrade.
Well, Banshee wants the latest and greatest Mono. I checked the Ubuntu Backports, but they didn’t have the latest Banshee nor Mono.
So I tried something that worked when I was running Ubuntu 5.04 and wanted the latest VLC to stream 89.3 The Current – I changed my sources.list to the latest Ubuntu (Dapper Drake), upgraded the Mono and Banshee packages, and then downgraded my sources.list back to Ubuntu 5.10.
Mono seems to be working fine, and the Mono apps I have loaded (Tomboy, F-Spot) with one exception – Banshee. Banshee segfaults if you just look at it funny. I can’t listen to music, import my library, or restart it after a crash.
Ah well, back to XMMS for listening to music.
I’d like a Nokia 770 please.
The era of handheld, internet browsing tablets is finally here. With an impressive 800×440 resolution, running a customized version of GNOME, this would be perfect for me. I currently keep a laptop in the living room, but rarely use it – and when I do, it’s to browse the net while watching TV, and that’s about it. This is truly what I need. Well, not need, but want. A lot.
Here’s a fairly decent review of the 770, by a former editor at OSNews.com.
I’m not sure why, but I was happy to see the Steelers win this afternoon.
The Colts have a coach who is well respected, with a rep he can’t win the big one, but who is supposed to be one of the nicest coaches you’ll ever meet. They have one of the best, if not the best, quarterback in the league. And yet I was rooting against them.
There’s something about Bill Cowher that makes me cheer for the man. He’s a pull no punches, tell like it is coach. I like the trick plays. I like the blue collar feel to the Steelers. I like that Cowher just wins – and his tenure in the league is as impressive as anything.
Jerome Bettis is pure class as he has accepted his role, and Big Ben, while tip-toeing the line of cockiness, is a hell of a leader on the feel. Troy Palamalu just makes plays – and he was robbed today.
Robbed! I don’t know what it was, but I thought the refs in both of today’s games were just off. From the non-call false start / off-sides in the Colt / Steelers game to the overturn of Palamalu’s interception, there were even a couple calls in the Bears / Panthers games that just seemed wrong.
Poor refs can’t ever catch a break.
I was sad to see the Patriots lose, but happy to see the Bears and Redskins lose. (Yes, I’m more happy for teams to lose than teams to win). The Bears is an easy call – I’m a Packer fan, and the true rivalry is with the team in Chicago. For the Seahawks – meh. I’m happy for them as it’s been 21 years since their last playoff win, and I respect Coach Holmgren – even if he is coaching the wrong team.
Next week’s picks: Steelers and Panthers win, and meet in Super Bowl XL.
Cory Linden has updated his blog after demo’ing the Second Life Linux client at 22c3.
Icculus did finish the client, and according to the blog post, there will be an Alpha test soon! Yay! Like Cory Linden, I’m running an ATI with the binary drivers, so it’s lookin’ good!
Now if it would just be available in time for the Lawrence Lessig book signing…
I uploaded some more pictures to Flickr I took with the kids when we went back to visit last night:
Jack was born this morning at 7:25 a.m.
Jack weighed 9 pounds, 7 oz, and is 20.25 inches long.
More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/silwenae/sets/1819793/
Let’s just say that I received such a form letter in response to my email, that I won’t even post it. Basically they implied it was a problem with my webhost since I don’t host with GoDaddy. It led me to firing back this, short and sweet:
Your stock answer below does not answer either of my questions.
Let me be clear as to what my questions are:
Why did GoDaddy park my domain for a period of 6-12 hours on 1/9/2006?
Why did GoDaddy’s account management system on godaddy.com show me my
domain expired on 1/4/2006 when I had renewed on 12/8/2005.
Those two errors above cost me another 2 year domain renewal fee as I
believed my domain had expired when it had not. Having my domain hosted by
another webhosting company has nothing to do with your account management
system or you parking my domain and showing a GoDaddy page when I visited
paulcutler.org.
Paul Cutler
Now they need to verify it’s me speaking to them, and the cycle continues.
The Register asks the questions about Google’s new DRM that need to be asked.
Just because it’s Google, doesn’t mean they deserve a free pass. DRM is DRM. And now we have multiple, confusing, versions of DRM to muck up our content.
As the article says, so much for your motto, Do No Evil, Google.
If you still need to get up to speed on why DRM just plain won’t work, Read Cory Doctorow’s June 2004 speech on DRM to Microsoft or in pretty html here.
