Buy a set of CDs. Buy some swag. If you’re a company and want more that just the software distribution, then buy a supported bundle. If you don’t care about the bundle, then just donate! If you’re including OpenSSH or OpenBSD in your products and are saving money because of the efforts of these projects, [...]
Check your brain speed My rating is 31 milliseconds. Eh?
I attended the my GOP county convention this morning. It was a good morning. Our state senator and representative showed up for a few minutes, as well as our U.S. representative. Good times. More importantly, I got two resolutions passed through that will be forwarded to the state convention. BE IT RESOLVED: that employers be [...]
The editors at RedState.org have completely lost it. One of their brethren, who was hired by the Washington Post to tend to a conservative blog of theirs, was recently outed for plagarism. His name is Ben Domenech. I’m sure he’s a nice man. I’m sure he’s a brilliant writer. I’m sure that he’s sorry. But [...]
I have written a threaded timer that will start on command, and stop on command using the boost threads library. here’s the code: /* copyright Benjamin Collins 2006 * please contact for licensing information */ #include #include #include #include #include #include typedef boost::recursive_mutex::scoped_lock rt_slock; namespace { bool _start = false; boost::recursive_mutex start_mutex; boost::condition start_condition; bool [...]
An OpinionJournal piece by Mallory Factor, praising Nansi Pelosi and other Dems for apparently wanting to de-reg the Sarbanes-Oxley accounting rules. Good for her. I like to give credit to anyone who deserves it. They’ve got a really, really long way before I’d consider voting for them, but I like to see this anyway because [...]
Flightplan IMDB Year: 2005 Writer: Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray Director: Robert Schwentke Length: 98 minutes Category: Drama Media: DVD Rating from MPAA: PG-13 Cast: Kyle: Jodie Foster Rating: 2 out of 5 Kyle and her daughter mourn the loss of Kyle’s husband (and Julia’s father). They leave their lives in Germany behind as [...]
I got my printer, an HP 2600n, to work on my OpenBSD box, thanks to Mike’s instructions on erdelynet.com I really wanted to get it to work doing it the “OpenBSD Way ™”, but I had a hard time. It didn’t take long for me to get lpr to print to it. That was a [...]
Wow. Read this. In the US, Christians toy with what to us is a hypothetical question: “What would you do if someone said demanded of you, ‘Renounce Jesus Christ or die.’?”. We consider it briefly, sincerely hope that we would not cave in to such a demand, and then dismiss it because it has never [...]