Pat’s Blog

My son Marcus is enjoying Halloween in his Tigger costume:

I was up early this morning and running errands because of the yearly switch back to standard time (you know, fall back). I put the AM radio on and there’s a syndicated technology radio show called the The Kim Komando Show. Most of the callers are windows noobs and are fairly clueless. They call […]

I recently started to get back into coding in C++ and decided to go the Qt route for a couple reasons:
KDE(which I like and use daily) is built on Qt
Applications developed with Qt are cross platform portable
Lastly you can use the full slate of Qt tools as long as you’re doing F/OSS development. Once […]

Unique posted on TLLTS forum about XDVDShrink. This application rips, re-encodes and burns DVD backups. For the longest time I’ve been using lxdvdrip and have been fairly happy with it. XDVDShrink is nice because you can just use the commandline or the GUI to configure and run it:

The application is perl based and runs fairly […]

I talk about cell phone hacking via bluetooth:
Ep.21
Only 9 minutes long. I know I would of went way over the 15 minute time limit if I really got into the nitti-gritti.

Normally I prefer doing my FTPs and SCPs via the command line but sometimes I’m feeling lazy and would like a nice and easy gui application. I’ve been wanting to check out what’s available these days for FTP/SSH clients. First I tried KBear. It looks promising and pretty but unfortunately the program kept bombing […]

I had to post a picture of a cat born with 2 tongues:

Allan alerted us to a sweet deal at Staples. They’re offering a Linksys PAP2 POTS converter for $60. The device is part of a Vonage home starter kit. Vonage offers a $75 rebate if you try their service for 2 months. Their basic plan (500 minutes to anywhere in North America) goes for $14.99. […]

See what sci-fi character your personality is closest to:
character finder
It appears my personality is most like Yoda:

Since the weather’s really bad here in eastern PA this weekend I have some time to do techie projects. Right now I’m writing this blog through the web interface of wordpress, burning CD’s of TLLTS that we’re selling and importing video from my camcorder to my computer via Kino over my firewire card. One thing […]