Eric Covener’s Journal

When you call gvim, which is a link to vim, the application itself is supposed to look at $0 and determine if you want the gui (you can also pass -g). Somewhere along the line, FireFox got too clever for it’s own good and resolved the symlink ahead of calling the program you’re trying to “Open With…” — so that VIM never sees that you tried to call it as gvim. You also can’t provide flags in that dialog :/

But you can create a 1-liner shell script that invokes gvim $* and then point FireFox at it.

Of course it’s not that easy — if you forget the shebang line (#!/bin/sh

Anything that saves me the grief of dealing with gedit as a default.

I had to quote this today on a forum I’m active on.

How to ask questions the smart way

While just muttering RTFM is sometimes justified when replying to someone who is just a lazy slob, a pointer to documentation (even if it’s just a suggestion to Google for a key phrase) is better.

Time Warner picked up a new HD channel in our area today, Universal HD (channel 295).

They have some interesting movies listed on their site, such as:

The Good: Judgement Night, Bring it On, Spy Game, Happy GIlmore, Brewsters Millions
The Bad: Beethovens 4th, Babe
The Ugly: The Skulls III.

I finally got around to watching the Pamela Anderson roast on comedy central. This was a non friars club roast, which is fine by me.

Jeff Ross (the young Friar) had probably the cruelest line. This dude isn’t the funniest guy around but is one quick bastard, kind of a Don Rickles for Generation X.

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

Courtney Love was sitting next to Pam (they’re buddies apparently) and was obviously the target of many jokes.

Courtney was 110% space cadet, falling over at one point and slurring like Anna Nicole Smith when she did her little stand-up bit.

Anna Nicole was in the audience, looked thin but very sickly.

Hugh Hefner did a great bit on video w/ some bunnies, but he also looked like he was at deaths door.

I’ve added a few {series, serieses. series’} to the DVR recently.

• Starved
• Over There
• It’s always sunny in Philadelphia

I discussed Starved here earlier, but Over There is another FX show, a gritty Iraq war series by David Bochco. Sticky FIngaz, of onyx fame, is in the little squad that they follow — if that isn’t enough to sell you on a show I don’t if you’ll ever be satisfied.

Wait, you really want more?

How about Mark-Paul Gosselaar as an embedded reporter? Does Zach Morris have the stones? The current storyline has him on the fast track to being Nick Berged

I downloaded an interesting album this morning, a set of Biggie / Frank Sinatra blends — Biggie vocals over Frank Sinatra beats and hooks.

01 – Juicy – New York, New York.mp3
02 – Everyday Struggle – A Day In The Life Of A Fool.mp3
03 – Nasty Boy – For Every Man There’s A Woman.mp3
04 – Come On – My Way Of Life.mp3
05 – Interlude – The World We Know (Over & Over).mp3
06 – Dead Wrong – In My Room (Nancy Sinatra).mp3
07 – Let’s Get In On (f. 2Pac) – Rain In My Heart.mp3
08 – Hypnotize – Little Green Apples.mp3
09 – Interlude.mp3
10 – 10 Crack Commandments – Fools Rush In.mp3
11 – Runnin (Victory 2004) – A Long Night.mp3
12 – Unfoolish( f. Ashanti) – Out Beyond The Window.mp3

Better IMO then all those Jay Z Black Album blends.

(10:41:43) Phil: i found your twin
(10:45:08) CovInHer: i hope you shot it

http://misers.org/pictures/justice/phone/

When you don’t have a porkchop, a tennis ball will do!

I had been unable to transfer files from my Razr V3 to my Debian system, and finally found a method that works to both send and recieve files.

1. Make sure the bluez modules are loaded and that your little bluetooth indicator light is flashing (or hit f5 to turn it on)
2. run hciconfig, from the bluez-utils package, should show your bluetooth adapter
3. Setup a PIN in your phone, add it to /etc/bluetooth/pin. I believe you’ll get a gnome prompt otherwise.
4. Run gnome-obex-server from the gnome-bluetooth (version in SID: 0.5.1-1)
5. Your phone should now be able to scan for devices and find your computer when you select an image and do a ‘copy’
6. To send an MP3 to use as a ringtone, gnome-obex-send blah.mp3 and choose your hopefully discovered phone from the list of BT devices.

Choose your own adventure: Morbid Life

One day you die in a tragic and terrible accident.

You are in the front office of Heaven speaking with God.

“My goodness,” he bellowed. “What an utter waste of a life you are. Deviant pornography, free software and MP3s, and don’t even get me started about what you did to that Kuro5hin site…”

“You need to be punished for your actions. What you have done is beyond the pale. Although our Bible strictly forbids it, you will be reincarnated in your choice of one of three terrible, awful, disgusting lifestyles. In one life, you are forced to hurt the innocence of others. In the other life, you are hurt and tortured. In the last life, you are a worthless sack of shit.”