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  • If it weren’t for lousy luck, I’d have none at all.

    File this one under “The Joys Of Mergers And Acquisitions.”

    Invite.net has been sold to BizLand.com, which doesn’t support several of the key features that brought me to Invite.net in the first place. I got an email today that states that first thing next week my website and email will be transferred to BizLand’s servers.

    There’s a very good chance that this site will completely break when that happens. The best-case scenario is that the existing journal entries will display but comments and a lot of the “extras” here won’t work (not to mention some of my security settings), I won’t be able to add new journal entries, and there won’t be a damned thing I can do about it since SSH shell access isn’t an option with BizLand.

    My current plan is to have Europa, the dial-up provider I’ve used for many years now, point the domain at a box I need to build here at the office. It’s not the best solution, but at least this way I’ll control the box in its entirety. This is also going to cost me a little more. Such is life.

    Ideas and contacts are welcome. Be warned that this may be my last journal entry until I get this thing moved elsewhere. No point adding entries that may get lost anyway. Grr.

  • Novell ZENworks seminar

    One might venture to ask, “Hey Karel, so what did you get out of today’s Novell seminar other than a T-shirt, a notepad, a pen, a demo CD and some pastries for breakfast?”

    I’m so glad one asked. Novell’s latest version of ZENworks would make my job much more manageable, if not easier. The features I need are inventory, remote control and the ever-lovin’ application distribution. I can distribute apps now with the ZENworks 2 Starter Pack, but that version is no longer supported and has some serious flaws that I’ve been working around for years now.

    The bad news is that I could never convince my local bosses to buy ZENworks for Desktops 3.2 or 4.0 when it comes out. The good news is that my boss at Corporate has been asking me about my opinions of ZENworks. Maybe I could lean on him a bit and make one of my dreams come true…

  • KDE 3.0.1 partial success

    After hours and hours and hours of satisfying prerequisites and debugging compile errors, KDE 3.0.1 is sort-of installed on my Linux workstation at the office.

    I’ll wait a while before tackling the rest of it. The base package took over an hour to compile, and I’d like to enjoy the use of my computer for a while before starting another huge session like that one.

    If I had anything else of interest to post today, I would. Sorry. It was a Monday at the office, which means lots of small tedious uninteresting jobs that I won’t bore you with the telling of.

  • NeoPlanet skin sounds

    I’m a bit embarassed by this: A few years ago I created a skin for the NeoPlanet “browser.” As proud as I am of the skin itself, NeoPlanet proved to be a bloated, buggy bit of fluff attached to a browser I have grown to despise. (That would be Internet Exploder.) Oddly enough, a fair number of people who use NeoPlanet liked my TenchiNeo skin, enough so that it continues to generate email to my Europa account.

    In the original description for the skin, I directed visitors to my website at Europa for some additional sounds. I’ve neglected to post that sound package here on the new website until now. I’m sorry about that, folks.

    NeoPlanet Anime Skins

  • Gone Domestic

    How to prove that a die-hard geek has turned into a devoted family man: Look at his Palm Pilot and see a grocery-list program installed.

    We’re going to try out HandyShopper to see if it makes our grocery trips a little less chaotic. I’m sure Wendi is rolling her eyes at the prospect of using geek toys at the store, but I figure it beats spending a lot of time asking ourselves, “Now what is it we’re forgetting?”

  • Random Quote Cuteness

    So what else does a guy do with his massive taglines collection other than use it for random email signatures? Why, he grafts it into his website, of course. At the moment it’s just a raw text dump; given some free time I’ll turn it into something a little more appealing.

    Yes, this is the kind of nonsense I just adore adding to my website. Deep down inside I’m probably very ashamed of myself.
    Random quote generator

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