Archive for June, 2007

fnotify Revisited – irssi has a message for you

I’ve debated this for some time. How long should it be to be notified of an instant message (IM), or private message (PM), or someone saying your name in internet relay chat (IRC)? I’ve still not answered this question, but I’ve got at least a tool that will help you when irssi receives a message [...]

Posted on June 26, 2007 at 8:37 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: News, Releases, Tech, Tools, irssi · Tagged with: , ,

APlus.net – Don’t buy your domain from them!

I generally don’t recommend or (as in this case) tell people to avoid a particular vendor. Generally, my comments are kept to tutorials and simple to complex configurations, or stories about my failures so that others might learn from me.In this case, I pretty much want to rip APlus.net a new one! So here’s the [...]

Posted on June 25, 2007 at 9:44 pm by herlo · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: Passion, Rants, Tech

rtorrent – The Options

A little over a week and a half ago, I wrote an introduction to rtorrent that covered the basic functionality of rtorrent. This tutorial should have made it easier for those of you out there to use my favorite torrent client. Because I love rtorrent so much, I thought I’d share a simple way to [...]

Posted on June 9, 2007 at 9:08 am by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Tech, Tools

Fedora 7 Disk Labels and more

I’ve been curious lately as to how I could print labels for my Fedora 7 DVDs.  Because I am officially a Fedora Ambassador for Utah, I would like to give out nice looking DVDs with labels on them.  Well, I found a very nice lady who’s put up eps versions of such labels and I [...]

Posted on June 1, 2007 at 10:46 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Passion, Releases, Tech, Tools