The Asus F50SF has been a fairly mysterious laptop over the last few months. At first Nvidia failed to verify if the video card on the Laptop's packaging even existed (Nvidia 220GT 1GB). So far, for a work horse this laptop has been great. I'll list the specs below, but first I want to get some problems and solutions with Wireless and no sound coming out of speakers, detailed in this article that will save every owner quite a bit of time.

I had mostly forgotten about this picture taken at a hotel in Florida. They had replaced the standard buttons found in an elevator with this nice Windows based touch screen system that showed both the numbers of the floor to control the elevator and wonderful Sea World advertising! Only, were we to meet our Doom half way up to our room on the 15th floor???

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PStats development has been moving along very nicely. Previously all configuration for each site had to be in an individual configuration file and the full command be added to a cron job like:

* * * * * /usr/bin/Pstats --config /etc/pstats/site1.config
* * * * * /usr/bin/Pstats --config /etc/pstats/site2.config

Now that is all changing. We have worked hard to bring a web configuration interface that will easily allow users & customers to login and modify their own site prefs automatically. PStats will run as a daemon and pull in its configuration every 10 minutes.

We are currently working on bringing together a programming community here in Southern Illinois. It would be a lot of fun to build up a local group like this especially in our area. There is a serious lack of technology sector jobs in Southern Illinois and the jobs that are available usually are closer to St. Louis or Springfield.

I'm not sure what it is about drupal I don't link, but I'm pretty sure it has to be something. Content seems a little to structured by default.. very odd to me. Books, blogs, pages, stories, these seem to be all things that are the same thing with similar names...

This is a quick guide to my current KDE4 development setup. This is written in part because all the guides even on http://www.kde.org seem to leave out minor details that leave some people in complete confusion about how to setup KDE4 development environments. Also, my memory sometimes fails so its going to be a guide that I myself can use to bring my systems back up when I reinstall Linux.