List of songs I know that I can whip out at any given need point. I oughtta include tabs/chords/lyrics here too.

Led Zeppelin

Bring It On Home

Over the Hills and Far Away

Cream

Crossroads

Jimi Hendrix

Red House

Hey Joe

Neil Young

Cinnamon Girl

Down By the River

Cowgirl in the Sand

Traditional

Whiskey in the Jar

While not super featureful and mature, ZenPhoto is a very well thought out photo gallery webapp, from both the user, administrator, and developer's point of view. This is my sample/practice Hello World plugin. I like ZP but it is missing some features I want and I am going to learn how to add them.

WILL ADD DETAILS WHEN THEY ARE COMPLETE

This is a work in progress. Now, how to mail it? I guess mail it to Obama for America

DEAR PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA:

First of all, congratulations on your historic victory. Okay, enough sweet talk.

Before I really get into what I want to ask of you, let me tell you a little about myself. Just a little. I am a 38 year old, white male of Jewish decent living in a major(ish, depending on who you ask) US East Coast city. I have a college degree and work as a professional. My wife and I also own a (struggling) small business. I have two small children, a house in the suburbs, two cars, a wife (not necessarily in that order). Okay, that's enough. Pretty normal USAian, right?

I have been thinking a lot about your election to this office. It turns out that I am VERY excited to see you there. I know I am not alone. But I have one, important, VERY IMPORTANT, request:

PLEASE DON'T FUCK THIS UP!

I voted for you mostly because you are not a semi retard (not that I am hinting at all that any current president might be semi-retarded). Not only, though, are you not retarded, you are actually one of the smartest speakers I have heard on the TV in a while. Your presence, charisma, leadership qualities, ideas, and ability to bring people together are a VERY WELCOME CHANGE. I voted for you for all those reasons, and, as icing, I voted for you BECAUSE you are "black". I put that in quotes because you are just as white as you are black, something a lot of people seem to miss.

Anyway, about my request. I know you know this and understand this request. I voted for you because, as the first "black" president, you will have to work harder, better, more convincingly, more flawlessly, more unifyingly than any previous president. More, even, than a white woman president would (well, that's debatable) have to. Because you are black. You MUST prove "them" wrong.

That is the gist, I gotta flesh this thing out. Draft 1 started Nov 19, 2008. Hopefully I'll scratch out another 15 minutes to work on this thing because I am desperate to mail it before inauguration. But if you read it online, that's good, too.

Thank you. Sincerely,
Jeff Silverman
American

Managing SSH sessions on multiple, simlarly-configured servers is easy using ClusterSSH. But I had some issues that were fixed with some cssh configuration tweaking.

ClusterSSH is pretty cool. Really. But I needed to tweak the default config a little before it worked perfectly for me. This was all presentation tweaking -- windows were overlapping and some text was not printing to the screen, as well as being to teensy.

Note that you can get a default config with 'cssh -u > ~/.csshrc'

~/.csshrc.default

# Configuration dump produced by 'cssh -u'
auto_quit=yes
comms=ssh
console_position=
extra_cluster_file=
history_height=10
history_width=40
ignore_host_errors=no
key_addhost=Control-plus
key_clientname=Alt-n
key_paste=Control-v
key_quit=Control-q
key_retilehosts=Alt-r
mouse_paste=Button-2
rsh_args=
screen_reserve_bottom=40
screen_reserve_left=0
screen_reserve_right=0
screen_reserve_top=0
show_history=0
ssh=/usr/bin/ssh
ssh_args= -x -o ConnectTimeout=10
telnet_args=
terminal=/usr/bin/xterm
terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true'
terminal_args=
terminal_decoration_height=10
terminal_decoration_width=8
terminal_font=6x13
terminal_reserve_bottom=0
terminal_reserve_left=0
terminal_reserve_right=0
terminal_reserve_top=0
terminal_size=80x24
terminal_title_opt=-T
title=CSSH
unmap_on_redraw=no
use_hotkeys=yes
window_tiling=yes
window_tiling_direction=right

~/.csshrc.tweaked

# Configuration dump produced by 'cssh -u'
auto_quit=yes
comms=ssh
console_position=
extra_cluster_file=
history_height=10
history_width=40
ignore_host_errors=yes
key_addhost=Control-plus
key_clientname=Alt-n
key_paste=Control-v
key_quit=Control-q
key_retilehosts=Alt-r
mouse_paste=Button-2
rsh_args=
screen_reserve_bottom=40
screen_reserve_left=0
screen_reserve_right=0
screen_reserve_top=0
show_history=0
ssh=/usr/bin/ssh
ssh_args= -x -o ConnectTimeout=10
telnet_args=
terminal=/usr/bin/xterm
terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true'
terminal_args=-bg lightyellow -fg black
terminal_decoration_height=10
terminal_decoration_width=8
terminal_font=-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
terminal_reserve_bottom=10
terminal_reserve_left=10
terminal_reserve_right=10
terminal_reserve_top=30
terminal_size=80x24
terminal_title_opt=-T
title=CSSH
unmap_on_redraw=no
use_hotkeys=yes
window_tiling=yes
window_tiling_direction=right

diff -u .csshrc.default .csshrc.tweaked

--- .csshrc.default 2008-11-10 14:32:53.000000000 -0500
+++ .csshrc.tweaked 2008-11-10 14:20:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 extra_cluster_file=
 history_height=10
 history_width=40
-ignore_host_errors=no
+ignore_host_errors=yes
 key_addhost=Control-plus
 key_clientname=Alt-n
 key_paste=Control-v
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@
 telnet_args=
 terminal=/usr/bin/xterm
 terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true'
-terminal_args=
+terminal_args=-bg lightyellow -fg black
 terminal_decoration_height=10
 terminal_decoration_width=8
-terminal_font=6x13
-terminal_reserve_bottom=0
-terminal_reserve_left=0
-terminal_reserve_right=0
-terminal_reserve_top=0
+terminal_font=-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
+terminal_reserve_bottom=10
+terminal_reserve_left=10
+terminal_reserve_right=10
+terminal_reserve_top=30
 terminal_size=80x24
 terminal_title_opt=-T
 title=CSSH

A general list of frustrations. This list is specific to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and may change in the future (nor not be applicable in the past).

I was reading. The Web. Stuff about Linux. I read a lot about Linux. One thing I definitely notice, of late, is the strong wave of frustration and consternation appearing across the Linblogosphere. As more and more people are using Linux, the demand to create a USABLE and NOT BROKEN Operatiing System increases. Some would argue that Linux is usable and not broken. That may be true for some segments -- in the server and embedded arenas, for example. But I actually use Linux as my main -- nay, my only -- Desktop. It would be nice if it actually worked WELL. As it is, it just works. But unfortunately not in the iconic "Just Working(TM)" sense of the term. In the "just, as in barely" sense.

I often see the red herring argument, "Windows doesn't work either!" What difference does that make, really, how well or not well Windows works? I don't user Windows! It really has no bearing on my use of Linux, and Windows not working one way or another does not help fix my frustrating Linux Desktop.

One blog I was reading in particular that hits on the issues DEAD ON was that of Elliot Hughes, some programmer guy. He's probably done something notable but I don't know what the fuck it is. But his Linux Suckage series is DEAD ON. See that? ALL CAPS. That must mean it is REALLY REALLY DEAD ON. (See? ALL CAPS AGAIN!!)

http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/09/desktop-linux-suckage-index.html

I think my frustration at this point can be summed up like this: Ubuntu has been continuously improving. Desktop Linux has been continuously improving. Any regressions -- ANY -- are not just "bumps in the road" but are simply unacceptable. In the interest of blogospheric wanking, here are my frustrations, in no particular order. I'll try to specify the Desktop Environment (DE) and Application, as appropriate. Maybe someday some Linux UI devs will actually listen to what Users want instead of what they want. But probably not ever.

• [Gnome,Panel Menu] Still can't drag an executable or script to the menu. Have to use Menu Editor

TrueCrypt is an excellent piece of software but the docs are all Windows-oriented. You can, as it turns out, create an ext3-formatted virtual partition (or "container" or "encrypted file volume") but it is not documented on TrueCrypt.org.

Copied from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=149561&page=6

Summary

First, Install TrueCrypt. I'm using version 6.0a. Use the GUI to useful creating an encrypted volume. Choose "FAT" formatting. Unmount, then format the virtual disk as ext3. Release truecrypt, then restart truecrypt and remount the drive.

Details

1. Create and mount your new container, type 'df | grep truecrypt1' to see what virtual device is used (in my case I see "/dev/mapper/truecrypt1 495588 10545 459456 3% /media/truecrypt1" -- the device is /dev/mapper/truecrypt1).
2. Then type 'sudo umount /media/truecrypt1' to unmount the drive
3. Now, to format it type: sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/mapper/truecrypt1
4. Finally type 'truecrypt -d' to release truecrypt
5. Now mount it using the GUI and verify it is ext3 formatted.