Jag hånar dig med mina apbyxor.

#moon

Kind of awesome. Watching the analysis now.

Also, now we know how to stream NasaTV to the TV via the media server.

1. wget the .asx from the NasaTV page (in the right-hand sidebar under Other Viewing Options, it's the one labeled "Windows Media (Best for Full Screen)")

1. open it up and find the Yahoo url; in this case: http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

1. run mplayer -playlist 'http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773'

Tagged: Linux, Note to Self, & Science

#obamapeaceprize

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the U.S. finally has a President that isn't the antithesis of peace. (Archnemesis of peace? The anti-peace?) He's a rock star, and the whole freakin' world heaved a collective sigh of relief when he took office.

But I'm just not sure what Obama has done to merit the honor. Is just not being Bush enough? He's made some inroads, he's got some plans, but when I think of the Nobel Peace Prize, I feel like there should be more actual accomplishment behind it.

On the other hand, I can't entirely disagree with the Nobel Committee. As they said, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." (Emphasis mine.) Hope is important, and so is trying, even if it comes to nothing in the end. Maybe it's optimism on their part, that by supporting the idea, they can help bring it to fruition. But then, that's kind of Obama's thing. Which might be their point.

"The Nobel Peace Prize...

Because I really really want to be like Mighty God King even though deep down I know I'll never be as funny or awesome. And The Conservative Bible Project can use my free-market loaves and fishes parable for only $400 + royalties.

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John 6 "Feeding the Five Thousand" (with apologies to King James)

1 Afterward Jesus crossed Lake Galilee.

2 A bunch of men followed Him because they saw He was running a private medical practice and hoped that He would cure them before they died waiting in line to see a doctor under the Liberal Roman-run Socialist healthcare system.

3 Jesus went up a mountain and sat there with His volunteers.

4 It was Passover, a holiday celebrating the escape of the Jews from the slavery of the Welfare State of Egypt.

5 Jesus saw all the men following Him, and He said to...

To change the host name, launch your favorite text editor like so:

$ sudo gedit

Open /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts and replace instances of the current hostname with the new one. Save the files and restart the computer.

A post in the Ubuntu forums indicated that if you don't change both files from the same instance of sudo that you won't be able to sudo to change the second file. I don't know if that's still a problem, since I launched the editor using sudo and opened both files from within it.

Tagged: Linux, Note to Self, Ubuntu

Jag har nationellt prov för SFI nästa vecka, så jag studerar mycket just nu. En del av proven har många frågor grundade i rubriker från tidningarna så jag studerar med läsar Vasterbottens folkblad och skriver sammanfattningar av artiklar. (Var snall och skriver en kommentar om ser du en misstag i min svenska; det är mycket hjälpsam för mig.)

450 sökander till tre tjänster på Tullverket

Umeås Tullverket har varit dränka av ansökar för tre nyligen utannonserade platser. Umeås tullinformätor Harry Brorsson anser att färsk och överhängande arbetslöshet är anledningen för antalet av ansökan, med många människor drog till säkerheten av en tjänst med staten.

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And the same in English:

I have the final exam for SFI next week, so I'm studying a lot right now. One of the sections on the test has many questions based on headlines from newspapers so I'm studying by reading Vasterbottens folkblad...

Esc-a actions menu
F10 window menu
F11 widget context menu

Esc-n next window
Esc-p previous window
Esc-N (1-9) go directly to windows 1-9
Esc-c close a window

Ctrl-C quit Finch

Note: In some installs, it may be the alt, meta, or edit key, instead of escape.

More on Finch.

Tagged: Linux, Note to Self, Ubuntu

Ctrl-a c Create a window
Ctrl-a A Name a window
Ctrl-a :number (0-9) Number a window

Ctrl-a n Next window
Ctrl-a p Previous window
Ctrl-a (0-9) Switch to window by number
Ctrl-a Ctrl-a Toggle between most recent windows

Ctrl-a " Window menu
Ctrl-a w Window list

Ctrl-a [ Copy mode
Ctrl-a ] Paste

Ctrl-a d Detach the screen
$ screen -r Reattach the screen

Tagged: Linux, Note to Self, Ubuntu

From the Ubuntu forums (hopefully I'm smart enough to remember I copied it here, and save myself some googling, if I need to install the printer again):

$ sudo apt-get install remove foo2zjs

(You can skip this if you've previously installed build-essential.)
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

$ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ cd foo2zjs
$ sudo make uninstall
$ make
$ ./getweb 1018
$ sudo make install install-hotplug cups

At this point, I needed to reboot. You can probably get away with just starting or restarting a service, but I'm not sure what, and it was faster to reboot than figure it out.

$ sudo system-config-printer

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