talk minus action = zero

DRAMA UPDATE:
I just got a text from a friend and bike mechanic that says
"We just heard from a source inside City Hall that there's going to be a major effort today from 1 to 5 to ticket as many cyclists as possible. Let people know to keep an eye out."

I can't substantiate, but this is a source I trust.

DRAMA UPDATE:
I just got a text from a friend and bike mechanic that says
"We just heard from a source inside City Hall that there's going to be a major effort today from 1 to 5 to ticket as many cyclists as possible. Let people know to keep an eye out."

I can't substantiate, but this is a source I trust.

Just upgraded to 2.6.32 and I notice two problems (so far). I have a Thinkpad T61. I notice that my custom sysfs settings for my TrackPoint don't work: the entries which set settings such as sensitivity are missing from /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/serio1, and this might be because the mouse is detected as a Generic PS/2 Mouse instead of having the TPPS/2 protocol extension.

Possibly related is the fact that the hdapsd daemon cannot find the hdaps input device. Any clues what happened with input in the 2.6.32 cycle that might be causing this?

I note also that udev spit out a metric fuckton of deprecation warnings for configuration file syntax on bootup.

My .config is here if anyone thinks that I might have answered some oldconfig questions wrong.

Update: Oh, also, I have UltraNav so I have both the TrackPoint and a Touchpad. The touchpad still works and is detected correctly as before.

Update 2: Additionally, the hdaps input device is registered—

[ 10.666730] hdaps: inverting axis (3) readings.
[ 10.666733] hdaps: LENOVO ThinkPad T61 detected.
[ 10.667382] input: hdaps as /devices/platform/hdaps/input/input8
[ 10.667441] hdaps: driver successfully loaded.


—it's just that userspace can't detect it.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

This just popped into my head:

Many years ago I was listening to a sermon. The priest held up two pieces of paper. "What makes this one worth five pounds, and this one not?"
(I don't know what his text was; something like Ps.145:13, perhaps.)

The same man kept calling out:
"It doesn't have the watermark."
"It doesn't have the hologram."
"It doesn't have the silver strip down the middle."

Eventually, the priest peered down at him and boomed, "Are you an expert forger, sir?"

So suppose there was a spod client for the N900. Suppose it had a dialogue at the start to pick a talker. Which talkers should it come preloaded with?

(Snowplains, obviously; what else is still around?)

http://actupphilly.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-are-you-doing-for-world-aids-day.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009

What are you doing for World AIDS Day?

There are a lot of options. You could, for example, listen to Alicia Keyes' free YouTube concert. You could go to Starbucks and buy a Product(RED) gift card. You could volunteer with an AIDS Service Organization. You could get tested. You could talk to someone about AIDS.
( See below cut for petition and activism info. )

For some reason, sometime after I upgraded to Karmic, the screensaver stopped working. No matter how long I leave the computer idle for, the screensaver does not come on and the screen will not lock. The computer refuses to acknowledge that it is in fact idle. The screensaver is one and it will enable and lock when i type in:
gnome-screensaver-command -l

That works fine. I've tried changing the idle time, disabling any applets, but I'm stumped. Any ideas?

So after my upgrade to 9.10 I can't play a lot of flash video (ala youtube). This seems to be not uncommon and more people suggest reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree (as well as uninstalling other flash stuffs). this did nothing for me.

Here's what I've got:

Shockwave Flash

File name: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

I ran the following:
sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

this did not solve a thing. I'm still staring at a big play button that does nothing.

Thoughts?