This is the way it should work

Categories: Technology
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Published on: October 26, 2004

Well today I was “in the zone” as they would say. I was working on a paper I had to do for class. I have my windows and Linux box set up to share 1 keyboard and mouse over my local network. And while working on the paper, I forgot that the keyboard and mouse were physically attached to the Linux box and not the windows box I was working on. That is how seamless it was, that is how computer technology should work, it should work so well and so closely together that one can forget it is there, or that there is a physical device between the devices. For me when I sit down to my windows and Linux box it is just as if I have 1 computer, 1 mouse, 1 keyboard and 2 screens that are running 2 different systems and I can just jump between the two with out stopping my work and use them as if they are almost 1. Now the only thing that we need is the ability to drag a window from one system to the other and we will be set.


That is the setup. On the left is the screen for the Linux box and on the right is the screen for the windows box. Now if I can just get the windows box to boot up with out a mouse and keyboard attached, but I still need one on them for loging in. If I can get VNC to load at the log in screen I could remove the mouse and keyboard from the windows box fully, but for now they are just set out of the way (sitting on top of the windows tower.)

Along with Google now Yahoo and MSN

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Published on: October 25, 2004

Well I looked at the logs today, and found that Yahoo now has started it massive “slurp” of my site. They have been getting page after page. They have 2 bots looking around my site. Also MSN is sending its bots over, I did a check on MSN search engine and for my name Michael P. O’Connor, I am both hit #1 and #2, sweet. Also with my old websites that I was not maintaining I have just gone back to them and set up a redirection to this site now.

Over at DeviantArt

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Published on: October 25, 2004

Well I got 2 comments so far about the pictures I posted on deviant art (mpost4.deviantart.com) both of them ok, but now really content on the quality of the pictures. But both of them loved the pictures because they love the city of Pittsburgh. I figure I will add 1 or 2 a day and see what happens. I have put 4 up so far.

The clip of the service where Erica is brought in as a member.

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Published on: October 24, 2004

For those of you who want to see the part of the service where Erica is brought into membership at first trinity

to see the whole service the full hour and 15 minutes click here. Enjoy. Or to download the whole thing click here and remember to change the extension from mv to mov

The church service today

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Published on: October 24, 2004

Ok since Erica was received into membership at First Trinity, she asked me if I could record the service for her, so here is the whole service all one hour and fifteen minutes of it. Enjoy. Click on the read more to see the video!!


If you wish to download the movie instead you can here remember to change the extension from mv to mov when you save it.

Pictures

Categories: Church
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Published on: October 24, 2004

Today a friend of mine Erica just be came a member of First Trinity you can see pictures taken today of it. I will post some videos later, as soon as the mac finishes incoding the quicktime movie of it.

The final update about the gateway laptop’s hard drive

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Published on: October 24, 2004

It has finally finished the bad block scan of the hard drive on the gateway laptop the finally total of usable space is 2713940 usable blocks out of 29302528 blocks. Next for the shear masochistic fun of it, I am going to install Linux on it, and do a stress test of it, and see how fast I can cause it to come crashing down on itself.

Why

Categories: Geekdom, Play, Technology
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Published on: October 23, 2004

Why do I spend so much time on Slashdot? It is fun at times, but for the most part it’s sophomoric for the most part. I should start trying to wean my self of Slashdot. It is in my best interest. But for some reason I always go back to it, it is like it is some sort of sick addiction. I think all I really want is a good discussion board that I can hang out. Before I hung out a Slashdot I would hang out at the boards over at MSNBC, they had a very good technology BB there. I do miss those BBs over at MSNBC. If any one know of a good technology board please post a link here for me to look at, and maybe I could spend time there instead of Slashdot.

Run for the hills

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Published on: October 23, 2004

It looks like nerd season is open, we need to start running for the hills, see here for more info. Run, run for the hills.

Either google is going to change how things are done

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Published on: October 23, 2004

Either google is going to do a update to how they do searches, or they got lost on my site, or the googlebot really loves my site. For fun I have been checking the cache of my site a google every day, and it seems to be updated once a day! I wonder if being put on Slashdot (and hence a lot of other sites that mirror Slashdot) had something to do with this. The question is how will this affect my page rank at google, as of now it is 3/10, hay not bad for a vanity site. But hay still #1 result for the search of my name “Michael P. O’Connor”.

The boxes continue to attack

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Published on: October 23, 2004

I keep moving boxes out of my place, boxes full of stuff. I did not realize I had so much stuff. Looking at the apartment I still don’t know where I kept it all. I have found some off site storage till moving day. And I have almost filled up that place with boxes and all kind of stuff. And yet I will have trouble getting around my place since there is still too much stuff here. The new place I am moving to should be a lot better then this place since the main room is a lot larger then the whole of my current apartment, and the new place still has a separate bedroom!!! I should be good for a few years there.

A bit of moving the computers around

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Published on: October 23, 2004

Today (tonight) I figured I needed to move some of my computers around. I put the windows box next to the Linux box. I did this because I use x2vnc to control the windows box mainly, but having them on 2 different desks meant that I had to turn around when I started to use the windows box. So I took the eMac off of the desk that has the Linux LCD, and put the windows LCD here along with a few other things, I then moved the eMac over to where the windows box use to reside. I just can not do x2vnc on the Mac box, vnc on the Mac is still not up to par in the speed area, the mouse would just jerk around the screen. Now I have the 1 keyboard and mouse for both the Linux box and the windows box. They are connected to the Linux box and then jump to the windows box over the network when I need to control the windows box.

Photograhs over at deviantart

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Published on: October 23, 2004

I am right now submitting some photographs over at Deviant Art. You can see my page there under my name there mpost4 but there is not much there and all of the stuff there is already here in my Photo section here Along with allot more Pictures I have taken.

Milk

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Published on: October 23, 2004

Milk does not last long in my place, I just bought a 1/2 gallon yesterday, and well I finished it off today. And I want some milk right now. maybe I should buy by the gallon instead of 1/2 gallons.

Got this joke in the mail and though I would post it here

Categories: Hay it is funny, Politics
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Published on: October 22, 2004

There’s a teacher in a small Massachusetts town. She asks her class how
many
of them are John Kerry fans. Not really knowing what a Kerry fan is, but
wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands
except
one boy, Johnny. The teacher asks Johnny why he has decided to be
different.
Johnny says, “I’m not a John Kerry fan.” The teacher says, “Why aren’t
you
a
John Kerry fan?” Johnny says, “I’m a George Bush fan.” The teacher asks
why
he’s a George Bush fan. The boy says, “Well, my mom’s a George Bush fan,
and
my Dad’s a George Bush fan, so I’m a George Bush fan!” The teacher is
angry,
so she says, “What if your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot?
What would that make you?” Johnny says, “That would make me a John Kerry
fan…..”

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