I recently learned that the one of the best places to go for in-depth (meaning he disassembles the who PSU unit) power supply reviews is jonnyguru.com. They have done and continue to do excellent work! Thanks jonnyguru!

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Okay, this slashdot (yes, ..slashdot..blurgh..[monster throat gurgle noise]..) humour actually had me laughing.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1061919&cid=26110761

Or, here is my play-by-play:

It starts off in the /. article "The End of Individual Genius?":

• geekmux posts thread "I believe a wise man once said...".

  I believe a wise man once said... (Score:5, Insightful)
  by geekmux (1040042) on Sunday December 14, @06:38AM (#26110349)
  
  None of us are as dumb as all of us.

Okay, I really doubt this is worth actually thinking about. In fact, it's probably just gibberish! So on to the next boring part (; it doesn't get interesting until the third post I cover ;)

• dimeglio responds:

  Re:I believe a wise man once said... (Score:1)
  by dimeglio (456244) on Sunday December 14, @07:49AM (#26110675)
  
  I think it's really just a question of genetics and natural selection.
  Selective breeding is the likely answer. Now take off your lab coats
  and start towars (wherever smart girls hang out).
  
  $1: if anyone knows where that is, you have evolved a mutation that 
  might save us all!

• aliquis replies to a reply to geekmux's original post:

  Re:I believe a wise man once said... (Score:4, Insightful)
  by aliquis (678370) <dospam@gmail.com> on Sunday December 14, @08:07AM (#26110761)

  I think it's really just a question of genetics and natural selection.
  The smart girls most likely hang around at the same place as the smart
  boys, don't ask me why you never meet one of them.

And HOT DAMN, that was pretty cold :x

Then, on second thought, aliquis seems like he is probably just a grouchy, bitter guy.

I like the Wombat color scheme for Vim.

xterm also looks really nice. I like how the primary design goals have been focused on minimizing eyestrain.

As a sidenote, earlier I wanted to convert an xml document into an html document that looked like it did for me in Vim. Initially I just tried the Syntax menu >> select Convert to HTML, but that yielded only some old-school'ish plain-old html, in the default ketchup+mustard type of color scheme. It was not very pretty...so a lot of googling later, I arrived at this gem of wisdom (at slashdot..blurgh..[monster gurgling noise]..):

<style type="text/css"> /* <!-- */ .vimrcConstant { color: #ffa0a0; } .vimrcPreProc { color: #ff80ff; } .vimrcStatement { color: #ffff00; } .vimrcComment { color: #80a0ff; } pre.vimrc { font-family: monospace; color: #cccccc; background-color: #000000; } .vimrcLnr { color: #ffff00; } /* --> */ </style> <pre class="vimrc"> <span class="vimrcLnr">1 </span><span class="vimrcComment">" Get files exported as xhtml instead of html.</span> <span class="vimrcLnr">2 </span><span class="vimrcComment">"</span> <span class="vimrcPreProc">Source:</span><span class="vimrcComment"> <a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200383&cid=16407641">http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200383&cid=16407641</a></span> <span class="vimrcLnr">3 </span><span class="vimrcStatement">let</span> use_xhtml<span class="vimrcStatement">=</span><span class="vimrcConstant">1</span> <span class="vimrcLnr">4 </span><span class="vimrcStatement">let</span> html_use_css<span class="vimrcStatement">=</span><span class="vimrcConstant">1</span> </pre>

I added that to my .vimrc, repeated the Syntax menu >> select Convert to HTML process, and voila, I had a beautiful and clean xhtml document in a color scheme that was much easier on the eyes!

Cheers.

Today I installed icecast version 2.0 on a fresh windows xp install, and when I visited the administrative interface, the webserver returned a page with only the following text message:

 icecast2 could not parse xslt file

After consulting the error log, and finding no particularly helpful information regarding the /error/ (if it can be called that, i mean, it's not in the error log.. ;), wait, wait. I did find out that the favicon.ico was missing from the icecast www dir. Greeeeeat..

Anyways, eventually I just reinstalled it and copied files from known other confirmed-to-be-working installations that run in production environments of Icecast v2, and that worked.

View the full article to view the entire xml config.. :)

Also, it is worth mentioning that this icecast.xml config is optimized for low-latency (e.g. LAN) environments..

<br /><br /><br /><small>
Other relevant tags:

 *[Icecast] Could not parse XSLT file
 *Icecast v2 error
 *Icecast Webserver XSLT parser error

Hopefully this helps a human-being, some place, at some point in the future..at least some measureable amount...who knows why I bother typing all this..
</small>

iTunes Error Message:

 Quicktime version 7.4.5 is installed, iTunes requires Quicktime version 7.5.5 or later.

Initially, google only returned a single yahoo answer post, to which the only response was a spam.

I ended up searching for "itunes download archive" to find an old version, and luckily I found www.oldapps.com/itunes.htm a website with all of the old versions of itunes, nice!.

Thank you oldapps.com.

iTunes is wayyy too heavy of an application, what a POS.

The Highslide Javascript Library looks pretty tiggity tiggity tight for slick in-page image viewing without breaking older browsers (graceful degredation).

I've just realized that the PEAR::HTML_TreeMenu library used to generate the wi-fizzle Article Archive Index page does not show up at all for people in a text-based browser. Additionally, the google spider does not seem to be picking up some of my older articles. I did some digging, and I have found HTML_TreeMenuXL, a library that is built on top of a slightly modified version of the PEAR::HTML_TreeMenu. It is way superior..

Handy repository/library of Python modules compiled for Windows.

For later: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html. Wow. Just wow.

"I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity. They did not touch its source. America is successful because of the hard work, and creativity, and enterprise of our people. These were the true strengths of our economy before September 11th, and they are our strengths today. (Applause.)"

In a time of emergency, American Citizens are of no better use to our President than pigs at the trough. Sad.

I'm trying to find out how to do unsigned right shifts on integers in python. In Java, they can be performed by simply using the '>>>' operator.

evil chuck's post, "Shifty Bits in Python" was a good read!

MLton.