Archived Content: fob.po8.org

• [2] Testing...
• [3] Up and running...
• [4] Ben's Parent-Teacher Conference
• [5] Site has new home
• [6] A logo/icon for FOB
• [7] Alternate FOB icon
• [9] Neal's Works
• [10] Poster macros
• [11] They said Yes
• [12] About The Name "FOB"
• [13] E-Mail List Finally Up
• [14] Reminder: Sigma Xi Posters needed soon for printing
• [15] Sigma Xi Poster Contest Huge FOB Success
• [17] FOB team, early on
• [20] Josh explains to Daniel
• [29] FOB team, blind in front
• [40] Congratulations to Mark Heller
• [41] PSU OSS Course Mentoring For Google "Summer of Code"
• [42] The Perry Bible Fellowship
• [43] CODE: An EMACS/MH hack you'll never care about
• [44] PO8
• [45] My desktop
• [46] Upload images?
• [47] My new office?
• [48] I only need two things...
• [49] Whoops
• [50] Micropayments
• [51] PSU student runs for PTP president
• [52] How's Drupal's Unicode?
• [53] FOB has moved!
• [54] Everything happens at once...
• [55] Google's $350K donation to Bart
• [56] Bart begins blogging better
• [57] META: In which I begin to blog daily
• [58] My New Year's Resolutions
• [59] The Finite Automata Song
• [60] Review: Injustice by any other name
• [61] META: Duct tape and bailing wire
• [62] Working towards a PhD
• [63] HOWTO: Get a contract employer to pay you
• [64] James Loewen's Books
• [66] Why static typechecking is your friend
• [67] META: Blogging without controversy
• [68] Review: Lions and Witches and Wardrobes, oh my!
• [69] OK, Haskell
• [70] The sun was out for a moment yesterday
• [71] Disneyland
• [72] A bidding/betting tip
• [73] META: Anonymous users can post blog comments now
• [74] The Firesign Theatre
• [75] X fails to mark the spot
• [76] META: Backlog achieved
• [77] HOWTO: Tune a piano the Keith Packard way
• [78] Demographics
• [79] My boy has a birthday, my friend has an idea, and I have little sleep...
• [80] META: Drupal again
• [81] A fine testing opportunity
• [82] Issues for digital artifact photo archiving [Part 1]
• [83] Jamey's comic list and Comic Alert!
• [84] Oops
• [85] Issues for digital artifact photo archiving [Part 2]
• [86] Issues for digital artifact photo archiving [Part 3]
• [87] Mitnick, Kerckhoff, and Open Source
• [88] My day was full
• [89] Introduction to network trust establishment [Part 1]
• [90] The Birthday Paradox Explained
• [91] META: The backlog's gone, and then some
• [92] Is there a Doctor in the house? A Professor?
• [93] META: You can't spell hypocrite without rite. You can't even spell write. Heck, you can't spell right.
• [95] META: May all spammers get involuntary facial tatoos advertising embarrassing personal hygiene products
• [96] Secure Computer Shuffling
• [97] Slashdot.org: You had me, but you lost me
• [98] Introduction to network trust establishment [interlude]
• [99] CODE: Continuations, closures, concurrency
• [101] A Junior Moment
• [102] First-ever 802.11 rocket telemetry
• [103] Pirate Haiku
• [104] I wish gEDA was done
• [105] Video Game Creation for Newbies
• [106] META: Sooner or later I'm gonna dupe myself
• [107] April
• [108] META: Lost another one
• [112] When conditionalized code goes bad
• [113] META: Long day with Drupal, weblogger.el
• [114] Tayler Nails Tagon
• [115] Where Python falls down
• [117] Back on Atkins again
• [118] Evil spammers screw up my site again
• [119] META: Spammers hit again
• [120] Upgraded to Drupal 4.6.5
• [121] META: New Drupal, new captchas, new worries
• [122] Drupal & Spam &c
• [123] META: Moving FOB Site Content
• [124] Smileys!
• [125] FOB info sections added to user profile
• [126] Two front-page stories
• [127] Ping
• [128] META: My blog entries end with the FOB smiley
• [129] Intel OLS Linux Essay Contest
• [130] MORESUKINE
• [131] Cool Piece of Hardware
• [132] Busy Day
• [133] Backups and distributed data
• [135] Captchas Repaired
• [136] META: Captchas Repaired
• [137] HOWTO: Debugging for Newbies
• [138] Metaphor and Magical Thinking
• [139] Smileys bug; fix
• [140] Drupal upgraded to 4.6.6
• [141] Upgrade!
• [142] ت R0XX0R!
• [143] The Open Source Locale
• [144] Shared Source
• [145] CODE: Haskell non-transitive dice constructor
• [146] Hello?
• [147] Knackered!
• [148] META: Two blog posts per week
• [149] A PowerPoint Slide
• [150] The Land of Emacs Weblogs is not a happy place
• [151] I thought I was so clever
• [156] Image Galleries Repaired
• [157] Camping at Microsoft
• [158] How To Get an OOo Bug Fixed?
• [160] Done Camping At Microsoft
• [161] More Controls, Please!
• [163] Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
• [164] Mighty Sad Rodent
• [165] Mighty Mouse Returns!
• [166] Unplug the Hardware Defunctionalizer
• [167] Notes From The Black Hole
• [168] My X Toolkit Plan
• [170] Welcome to FOB!
• [171] Webcomics Tracking
• [172] Almost Assoc.
• [173] Stories about Mike and grep
• [174] Tribal Casino Talk
• [175] An Italian evening...
• [176] What a difference a day makes
• [177] Assoc. Achieved
• [178] Working on the party!
• [179] Cyberpunk VR and the Self
• [180] Time for 4.7
• [181] Project Resolution
• [182] Back to the blog
• [183] Sleep Needed
• [184] Mike Vanier hates programming contests (me too)
• [185] Better smileys for smileys?
• [186] Blast from the past; a letter from MacWrite 1.0
• [187] Curse /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession and its .profile-running behavior!
• [188] Multiverse Syndrome
• [189] Nondescript Post from Atlanta
• [190] My performance problem and how I solved it
• [191] In which I come around on OotS
• [193] FOB upgraded to Drupal 4.7
• [194] MIT EECS course 6.001
• [195] The smallest persistence would be good
• [197] AMD buys ATI!
• [198] OSCON Day 1-2
• [199] OSCON Day 3
• [200] Time Flies
• [201] OSCON Day 4
• [202] OSCON Day 5
• [203] Web 2.0 is a Registered Service Mark
• [204] Web 2.0 Boilerplate
• [205] Bluetooth Blues
• [206] Blackberry Galore
• [207] Lost Animal Santuary
• [208] Review: Plantronics Voyager 510 Bluetooth Headset
• [209] Upcoming Rants
• [210] My Ancient Video Card
• [211] BACKLOG: Tenure Explained
• [212] Self-Portrait
• [213] Magic Shoes
• [214] XDPDX Hack
• [215] Boy and Friend
• [216] Phonecam
• [217] Coming down the stretch
• [218] Time for moderated comments?
• [219] BACKLOG: A plea for respect for open source governance
• [220] Unpublish
• [221] Bad Cat #1
• [222] And we're off and running (almost)...
• [223] Narbonless
• [224] Valley of the Canadians
• [225] Further Adventures in Bluetooth Cellphoneland
• [226] For a good time, call...
• [227] Startled this morning...
• [228] Free Software, Free Society
• [229] SAT solvers as mad science
• [230] Blog feed URL fixed
• [231] Drupal upgraded to 4.7.3
• [232] OpenID
• [234] Testing the forum waters
• [235] Camping
• [236] Off-Site Backups
• [237] Adventures in C++
• [238] Spammers, bugs, and general perfidy
• [239] My Raytracer Revealed
• [240] Waiting for things to happen on my computers...
• [241] It's Your Pal, But Who Pays?
• [242] HOWTO: Dirvish remote device setup
• [243] Chown Security
• [244] Chown Security
• [245] Portland traffic is awful
• [246] Arthur, King of Time and Space
• [247] Interesting Links
• [248] Links Section Added
• [249] Giving up on Burning Man; heading for SF
• [250] Ben, Bugs, and Daffy
• [251] Scrambled Ben
• [252] Marine World Portrait
• [253] Parks and Amusement
• [254] HOWTO: Debian SID + BitPim + LG VX5300 + Bluetooth
• [255] HOWTO: Labeling Tiny Things
• [256] CODE: Blackboard Architecture
• [257] CODE: A Script For Licensing Code
• [258] My sedit Script
• [259] Falling Down
• [260] Wikisource
• [261] Brokentooth
• [262] Dev environment for Linux GUI app?
• [263] Watch your .ccache
• [274] Getting Things Done
• [275] The site forum works!
• [276] Bug dealt with; day wasted
• [277] Anonymous Comments?
• [278] Experiments never go as planned...
• [279] Stop, loser, what's that sound?
• [280] At the end of the day...
• [281] Feed aggregation?
• [283] Time and daylight getting shorter...
• [284] The dreaded name-based-vhosts-and-SSL question
• [285] Getting "Getting Things Done" Done
• [286] EXERCISE: numero uno, muy importante!!
• [287] Exercise: Day Two
• [288] ...aannd I'm way behind again
• [289] HOWTO: Apache 2 SSL Name-Based Virtual Hosting
• [290] HOWTO: Tracks + Debian + Apache 2 + SSL + FastCGI
• [291] Review: Creative MuVo N200 256MB MP3 Player
• [292] N200 + Windows = trauma
• [293] I just lost my last $#@! blog post
• [294] Webcomics: turn, turn, turn
• [295] Travel Ho
• [296] Blues setting in...
• [297] The Gym
• [298] If I blog, will they come?
• [299] It got really bad today...
• [300] Record setting!
• [301] Pursuing graduate school
• [302] Sleep messed up again
• [303]
• [304] Can Dr. Bart
• [305] Geek Romance
• [306] Hiatii and the Future of Bart's Blog
• [307] Ethernet Over Power
• [308] IFOST
• [309] I'm thinking I'm done with TV
• [310] The Firefox field completion brings back memories
• [311] The thing with the police cars
• [312] Why write down your password?
• [313] This one is for you Bart...
• [314] Great quotes from Korean industry visitor films
• [315] Engineering in every sense of the word...
• [316] Loud Noise On Ice
• [317] Thunderbird vs. Gmail
• [318] Cold, Colder, Coldest
• [319] HOWTO: Portland State WPA + Debian network/interfaces + wpa_supplicant
• [320] Routine sleep necessary -- so is Exercise
• [321] Drupal upgraded to 4.7.4
• [322] First attempt at Mailman integration fails
• [323] Warning: Feminist rant ahead
• [324] Thanksgiving was a time to catch up on sleep
• [325] Raymond Chandler and the Noir Genre
• [326] Winter term classes
• [327] linkspam
• [328] Moving forward
• [329] Book Reviews anyone?
• [330] Happy Holidays
• [331] I can see!
• [332] CODE: Similarity Hashing
• [333] Happy New Year 2007!
• [334] Not as easy as it seems....
• [335] Book reviews
• [336] Google Checkout $10 offer
• [337] USB filesystem II update
• [338] Rock-Paper-Scissors and Sicilian Reasoning
• [339] A Must See!
• [340] Music anyone?
• [341] My linux box is trashed
• [342] Arabic Translation Needed+
• [344] More thoughts on the PhD
• [345] My Page
• [346] HOWTO: ikiwiki + git
• [347] I'm done! *flop*
• [348] Where Verizon may locate their phone GPS SW
• [349] Repaired blog titles, etc
• [350] My wife is getting her gallbladder removed
• [351] Wiki spammers are the lowest of the low
• [352] Shocking!
• [353] On Moonie sushi
• [354] Classic crank science: an antigravity drive
• [355] FOLLOWUP: On Moonie sushi
• [356] FOLLOWUP: The Finite Automata Song?
• [357] Good Times
• [358] Piperka is good enough…
• [359] My current webcomic list
• [360] Big Apple: One day and counting....
• [361] Summers of Codes
• [362] Sylvie, 1988-2007
• [363] My hardware is all over the room...
• [364] PSU's Electrical Engineering -- 9th??
• [365] Webcomics and Piperka
• [367] Focusing on Time Management
• [368] Some Progress
• [369] Getting back on track... will get there!!!
• [370] Linus Torvalds on GIT at Google
• [371] All I want...
• [372] META: A stupid reason to stop blogging
• [373] NoNaNoWriMo
• [374] Beginning BartForge
• [375] Some books I would like to have (back)
• [376] Linux Plumbers Conference
• [377] Death of Wikipedia predicted---film at eleven
• [378] META: Solved: The case of the vanishing entries
• [379] Review: Banned book
• [380] I've started blogging again
• [381] My latest webcomics list
• [382] It's like Wikipedia...in a way
• [383] META: Clearing my backlog
• [384] HOWTO: It's All Text + gnome-terminal + emacs
• [385] I'm moving my backups to JFS
• [386] REVIEW: NUMB3RS episode 408
• [387] Underground cave
• [388] Popcount
• [389] X.Org Foundation Board election
• [390] Why public domain release is a bad idea
• [391] Time for more upgrades
• [392] HOWTO: Debian + Drupal upgrade
• [393] A favicon builder
• [394] All my Drupal sites are now at 5.3
• [395] Goodbye, Bigfoot
• [397] That wacky theme
• [398] HOWTO: Picking "random colors"
• [402] All my Drupal sites are now at 5.5
• [403] I was just spammed...by Microsoft!
• [404] Review: The Kingdom Of Loathing
• [406] Some simple math for the Twelve Days of Christmas
• [407] #$@! X Cut-and-Paste
• [408] HOWTO: Disabling Emacs' new "mandatory" splash screen
• [409] Mathmark
• [410] Python so far
• [411] Digital broadcast converter coupons
• [412] Happy New Year!
• [413] FOB theme remains...FOB
• [414] Strange Comparisons and the "Year of the Linux Desktop"
• [415] Review: Minimus
• [416] The Firesign Theatre on Creation Myths
• [417] Review: Minimus 2
• [418] Adventure and Ample Alliteration
• [419] An ikiwiki farm
• [420] Why Git is my default SCMS right now
• [421] Similarity hashing
• [422] Portland On Fire / Toonlet
• [423] My hard drive was stuck
• [424] My first and last IEEE conference paper
• [425] Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• [427] Microsoft Intellectual Property
• [428] Boil The Ocean
• [429] Royal Flush #1
• [430] An utterly awful math test
• [431] Two whole different math cultures
• [432] Review: Swindle
• [433] In Haskell we say...
• [434] An Audio Compressor / Limiter
• [435] Laziness Weirds Programming
• [436] PO8
• [437] ANSWER: Rolling 18
• [438] Rolling 18
• [439] Antonyms: a little word puzzle
• [440] ANSWERS: Antonyms
• [441] Still not sure about Twitter
• [442] Emacs page mode
• [443] Nicholas Negroponte on OLPC
• [444] Windows sucks
• [445] A Reflection on Goodness
• [446] Somebody doesn't like being irrelevant
• [447] Put your headrest up, please!
• [448] Laziness weirds programming 2
• [449] Run-Length Encoding in Haskell
• [450] Huffman Encoding in Haskell
• [451] Wikipedia makes me cry
• [452] Portland's Fire is starved for fuel
• [453] FOB Cow
• [454] Review: Light
• [455] Won a poker tournament yesterday
• [456] Exploring Haskell's concatMap performance
• [457] Everything broke at once
• [458] Phone Survey chutzpah
• [459] Colbert / Buchanan
• [460] Link to my real blog
• [461] Proposal Stage
• [462] A Retraction
• [463] Image CAPTCHAs
• [464] My first blog entry
• [465] Xbox 360 Handheld?
• [466] 10-09-08 through 10-11-08 news
• [467] Bouncing Spam
• [468] Still alive, still blogging
• [469] I'm done with The Onion
• [470] Sorry I Have Not Bloged For A While..
• [471] Spam Experiment Resuls
• [472] Wikipedia Art
• [473] No sign of prostate cancer!
• [474] More evidence that Linus Torvalds is smarter than me
• [475] My Late Arrival in the Netbook Kingdom
• [476] The Inevitable Setback v1.0
• [477] The Inevitable Setback v2.0
• [478] The Inevitable Setback v3.0
• [479] The Inevitable Setback v4.0
• [480] A Complete Reversal of Fortune
• [481] Kernel Panic
• [482] The long slow trainwreck of Linux Atheros support
• [483] A Kind of Rebirth
• [484] You had me but you lost me: Schlock Mercenary
• [485] Evolution of Language: Infer and Imply
• [486] Evolution of Language: Nauseous and Nauseated
• [487] Random non-repeating sequences
• [488] Evolution of Language: i.e. and e.g.
• [489] If you could have a superpower...
• [490] Ouch. How you get a virus from Firefox...
• [491] New Years' Resolutions
• [492] Notes on getting Debian Gnome Bluetooth working
• [493] HOWTO: Putting cryptoloop back in Debian
• [494] What is on the t-shirt?
• [495] Image analysis challenge
• [496] Distracted driving
• [497] A Modest Proposal
• [498] My current webcomics
• [499] How I changed my static IP
• [500] On Pullman on Lewis
• [501] Jigsaw puzzle solving
• [502] You had me back, but you lost me again: Schlock Mercenary
• [503] Strange days indeed
• [504] Wandering Ones again
• [505] A Logo demo in Haskell
• [506] Six "Dont's" to Consider When Building Your Website
• [507] HOWTO: Linux "Traffic Shaping" with stock "tc"
• [508] Yes, I'm Still Here
• [509] Trust in web services - or - Why I'm quitting WoW
• [510] Byron William Massey, 20 September 1967 — 11 October 2010
• [511] HOWTO: Rotated Halftones in Inkscape
• [512] Why cut-copy-paste is hard
• [513] The end of my Movember
• [514] Netpbm ASCII Art
• [515] The Seven Deadly Sins of free online poker players
• [516] HOWTO: Replacing cryptoloop with dm-crypt in Debian
• [517] LOL. Found and fixed a two-year-old front page typo.
• [518] HOWTO: Making Network Manager manage your wired network
• [519] Things I see in student code
• [520] Living Documents
• [521] The new "pages" area
• [522] Things I see in student code
• [523] CAPTCHAs softened
• [524] Cell phones and the US National 'Do Not Call' Registry
• [525] HOWTO: Starting debsums
• [526] So tired of Fry's
• [527] Donald Heber Larsen, 28 April 1927 - 6 December 2010
• [528] HOWTO: Debugging an ssh connection problem
• [529] Now with extra Drupal 6!
• [530] The continuing saga of Linux Atheros support
• [531] I can open doors with my mind
• [532] Now with more Twitter!
• [533] Now with new and improved FOB Theming!
• [534] Donec felis eros, blandit non
• [535] A couple of SSH tips
• [536] I am a musical legend
• [537] Groupon might be the dumbest startup ever
• [539] I think we might have a slight PR problem here
• [540] User trap of the week: Mystery Maxima
• [541] Recently on BartForge
• [542] "Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."
• [543] Ow! My gateway box died!!
• [544] User trap of the week: Mystery BibTeX
• [545] Proposals for Open Source Bridge
• [546] What's the difference between a Mac and an Etch-a-Sketch?
• [547] Instant Graphic Novel
• [548] Monopoly
• [549] The nealhere.com domain is gone; the content lives on
• [550] A scammer calls me on the telephone
• [551] User trap of the week: Haskell's "Off-side Rule" indentation
• [552] The Netrunner's Guide To Social Engineering
• [553] Stupid Wikipedia Trick
• [554] Recently on BartForge
• [555] The original "Heavy Boots" post?
• [556] Electric staplers are upside-down
• [557] The 'Sleep Sort' meme
• [558] User trap of the week: SSH-o-phone
• [559] User trap of the week: GIMP Script-Fu
• [560] Goodbye DSL and Atheros, hello cable and Ralink
• [561] You had me but you lost me - PurePlay Poker
• [562] Still more CAPTCHA fiddling
• [563] PayPal
• [564] Shutting off anonymous comments
• [565] We're the Vikings
• [566] "Better than Tolkien"
• [567] Google eBookstore fail
• [568] User trap of the week: Android SDK sqlite3 libreadline
• [569] I'm back
• [570] The Firesign Theatre plays Portland
• [571] The Bobs play Portland
• [572] Sorry about the Nook
• [573] How I Almost Donated $50 To Project Gutenberg
• [574] Red and Green
• [575] Worst permissions ever
• [576] HOWTO: The UEFI Dual-Boot Saga
• [577] Once again trying anonymous comments
• [579] Oh Emacs Lisp!
• [580] Nancy Larsen, - 12 November 2012
• [581] Nancy Kae Larsen, 13 January 1955 - 12 November 2012
• [582] My work phone number is a tiny RSA key
• [583] Download *whole albums* via Amazon Cloud Player on Linux
• [584] Naked Justice
• [585] Notes on HTC One Configuration
• [586] Notes on configuring late-model Toyota car stereo Bluetooth
• [587] Notes on HTC One / Google Voice / T-Mobile configuration
• [588] Wicket W. Warrick and Radagast The Brown
• [589] Project Resolution: Regular blogging begins again
• [590] Some more ground rules for the new blogging
• [591] Computer Maintenance
• [592] More about my Resolution
• [593] My desktop drive adventure
• [594] I am ambivalent about Moodle
• [595] I hate the term "self-plagiarism"
• [596] I think the gym may be one thing too many
• [597] My Inform 7 Projects
• [599] LIFEHACK: Label your valuables
• [600] Xorg and DPI
• [601] Oh Haskell
• [603] Glass Plate Game markers again
• [604] The organization will continue until morale improves
• [605] RECIPE: Health-Nutallica
• [606] Getting ready for Drupal 7
• [607] Drupal 7 will not happen
• [608] This person saved the anonymous comments
• [609] SVG text vertical alignment
• [610] Busy day at the lab tomorrow
• [611] REVIEW: Gone Home (spoilers)
• [612] The borken side of Linux
• [613] HOWTO: Installing NuttX on the STM32F4 Discovery board (using Debian Linux)
• [614] Summer Hardware Project
• [615] HOWTO: Infuse Gin In 36 Hours
• [616] Almost Understands GPS
• [617] Finally Starting To Control the Spammers? No
• [618] Finishing my 30 days...
• [619] Google Summer of Code winds up again...
• [620] Daily checklisting
• [621] HOWTO: List the installed files on your Debian system
• [622] The Petrie Multiplier
• [623] My webcomics list again
• [624] It's snowing in Portland
• [625] 13 - Capped Stopper
• [626] 15 - Done
• [627] 02 - Equipment Needed
• [628] 08 - Inversion 1
• [629] 09 - Inversion 2
• [630] 10 - Inverted
• [631] 06 - Measuring
• [632] 11 - Positioning
• [633] 05 - Ready To Seal
• [634] 14 - Shrinking Bottom
• [635] 12 - Shrinking Top
• [636] 03 - Silpat
• [637] 07 - Sleeve
• [639] 04 - Two Bottles
• [640] 01 - Snow Day
• [641] HOWTO: Sealing bottles with heat shrink tubing
• [642] NSA: The Day We Fight Back
• [643] Connector / dirt fail
• [644] Broke it again
• [645] OK, I found the most addictive game ever
• [646] My phone has a crappy radio
• [647] Weirdly astigmatic
• [648] No CERT for you!
• [649] REVIEW: Planters's Five Alarm Chili Dry Roasted Peanuts
• [650] Generating long random passwords
• [651] My son is awesome
• [652] You had me and you lost me: Ingress
• [653] Portland is a very small town
• [654] REVIEW: The Lego Movie
• [655] Just-In-Time in Open Tech
• [656] REVIEW: Proline PL1100 portable piano bench
• [657] Coin War
• [658] REVIEW: M-Audio SP-2 Sustain Pedal
• [659] There is no good pedal
• [660] Project names
• [661] Micropayments
• [662] HTML Programming
• [663] HOWTO: Embedding a font in a Linux Inkscape SVG document
• [664] Everclear is a cleaner
• [665] C integral types and promotion rules
• [666] Open Source Bridge talk submitted
• [667] HOWTO: EVE Online on Debian with Wine
• [668] HOWTO: Fix missing Google Calendars on Android
• [669] Diane Downs / School Superintendent
• [670] On Grading
• [671] On Hiring Remote Developers
• [672] Thoughts on "Thoughts on the Reynolds High School tragedy"
• [673] The Facebook Experiment
• [674] A Conversation With A Friend In Mariupol
• [675] Sportsball and violence fail
• [676] Coding literacy
• [677] Why TeachScheme is not in my future
• [678] Why "nerd culture must die" fails
• [680] First Light for the Desert Lizard
• [681] Back up after 7 months! Now with Drupal 7!
• [682] Gallery: Ye Old Science Poster Show