Category: geek

sound tools?

elvis3 Comments

Anyone know a good, free, easy to use WAV file editor for OSX? (Or an mp3 editor, I can convert it). I’ve got this sound file I wanna post – an inadvertent voice mail – but it’s ten minutes long, with a lot of dead air. I need to chop the gaps out, and take […]

Anyone know a good, free, easy to use WAV file editor for OSX? (Or an mp3 editor, I can convert it).

I’ve got this sound file I wanna post – an inadvertent voice mail – but it’s ten minutes long, with a lot of dead air. I need to chop the gaps out, and take out the bits that identify who it is. It’s a wrong number, but still.

But I can’t find anything that’s worth a damn that’s free. Such a beast has to exist. I tried ‘Wave Editor” but had nothing but trouble with it, it wrote out a horrible-sounding file and then started crashing. I don’t need anything sophisticated, just something that will let me chop out the gaps.

Geek Support

elvis6 Comments

I’m trying to help a non-techie windows user ftp upload a bunch of data to my server for safe storage. Trouble is, when I think ftp, I think unix/macos command line (the way I do it):      [motorhead:~] kmac% ncftp -u username hostname.com So I need to direct said user to a good, easy to […]

I’m trying to help a non-techie windows user ftp upload a bunch of data to my server for safe storage.

Trouble is, when I think ftp, I think unix/macos command line (the way I do it):

     [motorhead:~] kmac% ncftp -u username hostname.com

So I need to direct said user to a good, easy to use windows tool/method.

It’s been six years since I’ve touched a windows machine. I have no idea what to set her up with.

Help a brutha out, windows geeks.

Browncoat weapon lust

elvis17 Comments

Ok, my geek is showing. This is where my fetish for knives crosses my geekery. I’ve been looking for months for where I can get Jayne Cobb’s Bowie Knife from Firefly. I’ve wanted a big-ass bowie knife for years. I’ve got balisongs, switchblades, straight-razors, tactical folders, bayonets, daggers, throwing knives, a million kitchen knives, machetes, […]

Ok, my geek is showing.

This is where my fetish for knives crosses my geekery.

I’ve been looking for months for where I can get Jayne Cobb’s Bowie Knife from Firefly.

I’ve wanted a big-ass bowie knife for years. I’ve got balisongs, switchblades, straight-razors, tactical folders, bayonets, daggers, throwing knives, a million kitchen knives, machetes, pukko knives, buck folders and buck hunting knives, swiss army knives, opinel folders, gerber folders.

But I don’t have a bowie knife, and I’ve wanted one forever.

So I just ran across something on a browncoat site identified that BFK (Big Fuckin’ Knife) Jayne carries. And of course, I want one.

The Rough Rider Patrick Henry Liberty Bowie Knife:

Bowieknife2

Of course, it can’t be that easy. It’s out of production. The only company I can find that has them for sale is taking back-orders, but can’t tell me an ETA. On the other hand, I know a guy (who is an order of magnitude higher in geekdom than I) who makes an exact replica of Jayne’s sheath. Which means that, if I can ever find the goddamned knife, I also can get the sheath I want.

Ok, now, who’s giggling at the word ‘sheath‘?

I know. I know. Geeky. I can’t help it. I have weapon lust. I must have that knife.

…surprise?

elvis3 Comments

I just got hits in my logs from “buckeye, arizona” and from “surprise, arizona”. And I’m thinkin’… Well. You know what I’m thinkin’.

I just got hits in my logs from “buckeye, arizona” and from “surprise, arizona”.

And I’m thinkin’…

Well. You know what I’m thinkin’.

Back in the saddle again

elvis6 Comments

Ridin’ into town alone By the light of the moon I’m looking for ol sukie jones She crazy horse saloon Barkeep gimme a drink That’s when she caught my eye She turned to give me a wink That make a grown man cry Ok. Gots me a new computer. Seventeen inches of throbbing computational power, […]


Ridin’ into town alone
By the light of the moon
I’m looking for ol sukie jones
She crazy horse saloon
Barkeep gimme a drink
That’s when she caught my eye
She turned to give me a wink
That make a grown man cry

Ok. Gots me a new computer. Seventeen inches of throbbing computational power, right here in my lap.

Ok, not the MacBook pro I was hoping to lay hands on; we’re sellin’ em fast as we can make em so there are none to go around internally yet. But still, bigger, better, faster.

Now maybe I can write something that ain’t so damned sulky.

Comment Freaky Styley

elvis5 Comments

I just found a trick at LMT to make author comments show up differently than comments from the peanut gallery. I tried this out yesterday in Hiromi’s blog (which worked out pretty well) so today I added it to my blog. Still tuning but I think it’s pretty cool, it make it clear which comments […]

I just found a trick at LMT to make author comments show up differently than comments from the peanut gallery.

I tried this out yesterday in Hiromi’s blog (which worked out pretty well) so today I added it to my blog.

Still tuning but I think it’s pretty cool, it make it clear which comments are author replies; not that useful here but really useful for Hiromi, who is the queen of comments. I’m still tweaking around with her comments over there to get the best display but I’m likin’ the way it works out.

(This is what I do when I’m sick – that cold I was fighting all last week finally won, and I feel like crap. Which I just typo’d as ‘feel like carp’, which may be how I feel, like a fuckin’ carp.)

I need this font

elvis6 Comments

I need this font. If anyone sees it anywhere, point me the way… (and no, this isn’t the font called “motorhead”, which would be too easy. that font is some ugly thing that someone slapped the motorhead name on)

I need this font.

If anyone sees it anywhere, point me the way…

Motofont.Jog

(and no, this isn’t the font called “motorhead”, which would be too easy. that font is some ugly thing that someone slapped the motorhead name on)

Personal Pages, Profanity

elvis8 Comments

Well now. I’ve been upgraded – or downgraded – or degraded. Or just, you know, graded. Feels like that, or maybe that’s more grated, and it feels like that as well. Secure Computing, the motherfuckers who sell STOOPIDfilter to repressive countries and companies, agreed that I wasn’t Pornography, sex. Evidently I’m Personal Pages, Profanity, with […]

Well now. I’ve been upgraded – or downgraded – or degraded. Or just, you know, graded. Feels like that, or maybe that’s more grated, and it feels like that as well.

Secure Computing, the motherfuckers who sell STOOPIDfilter to repressive countries and companies, agreed that I wasn’t Pornography, sex.

Evidently I’m Personal Pages, Profanity, with a side of Personal, Mature.

Well, fuck yeah. That’s me. The Moronosphere, ProfanityBlog.

Because we’re all about the effword here.

Maybe it’s mature that bothers me more. Who you callin’ fuckin’ mature? We ain’t got no fuckin’ maturity here. Not a sausage. Not a drop. Not a fuckin’ cc, baby.

I guess the point is that the people at Secure Computing listen if we complain, but they still do the wrong thing and slap a fucking label on something they don’t get.

I’ll have to see if we’re still banned in the fuckin’ UAE. They’re not allowed pornography, let’s see if they’re allowed to read the effword.

black bars over our eyes

elvis14 Comments

I finally figured out why some of my friends can’t get to my site from their places of employment, and why my friend Arvind, the brilliant young developer of MtBlogRoll, can’t get to my site at all from the United Arab Emirates. Moronosphere.com is on the SmartFilter blacklist. I’m listed as a “Pornography” site and […]

I finally figured out why some of my friends can’t get to my site from their places of employment, and why my friend Arvind, the brilliant young developer of MtBlogRoll, can’t get to my site at all from the United Arab Emirates.

Moronosphere.com is on the SmartFilter blacklist. I’m listed as a “Pornography” site and a “Sex” site; which means that any company or nation that’s decided to babysit users like nursery-school kids find we’re too evil for tender little eyes. This includes all the sites I host under moronosphere.com, but not sites with their own domains.

You can read about the utter stupidity that is SmartFilter on BoingBoing, who are likewise blocked.

You can check your own sites here:

securecomputing.com/sfwhere/index.cfm

I’m not yet sure if there’s any way to get that listing corrected. I’m working on it and I’ll post here if I find out.

Network fuckedness

elvis7 Comments

Grumble. I picked a hotel partly based on free high-speed wireless in room. Which is great. High signal, rippin’ speed. Only I can’t get VPN in to work. And that’s where my email is. All of it sucked off of the apple corporate mail server, and off of the engineering mail server, onto my own […]

Grumble.

I picked a hotel partly based on free high-speed wireless in room.

Which is great. High signal, rippin’ speed. Only I can’t get VPN in to work. And that’s where my email is. All of it sucked off of the apple corporate mail server, and off of the engineering mail server, onto my own private, secure disk space on my own server in my office.

Which is behind a firewall. The castle walls are high and I’m outside, portcullis down, drawbridge up. Moat fulla piranha.

I don’t care about, you know, work-related mail. But me own personal mail, THAT I want.

Did I mention, grumble?

My gmail is reachable if you wanna get me (fan mail from some flounder, dirty notes and filthy jokes), but I can’t respond to anything at my usual addresses until I 1) figure out what in the local network is fucking me, or 2) get home later this week.

At least I can still blog.