Cain Manor

Open “Image Capture”

Open “Image Capture” preferences

Change “When Camera is Connected, open [no application]“

The Heroes Act of 2008 was passed in, well, 2008, to increase benefits for Veterans. Can’t argue with that, can you. However, there was a provision of the bill that taxes you on your property value if you change your citizenship, as capital gains, regardless of you sell it or not. To quote the Chicago Sun Times

But Richard Kohan of Price WaterhouseCoopers drew my attention to one section of the act — the portion that states anyone voluntarily giving up his or her citizenship will be taxed on ALL of his assets as if he or she had sold them — paying capital gains on assets that have increased in value, even though they have not been sold!

That’s right. While everyone in the media is focused on keeping aliens out of America, Congress has voted to lock its citizens — or at least a good portion of their assets — into — America! Maybe they’re thinking that patriotism won’t be enough to keep the smart money from recognizing the coming increases in the tax burden.

So our government doesn’t want immigrants coming in, nor do they people leaving.   I guess you have to pay for that debt somehow.    But Seriously, WTF?

I live by Woodland Park Zoo. Every year they have a concert series that makes parking impossible, but in return, I get free tickets to two concerts. I went looking for a calendar I could subscribe, so I would know which concerts to attend, and when I need to get home early so I can get a parking spot. I couldn’t find such a calendar, so I created one -> Zoo Tunes Calendar <- (presented in ics format for use in most major calendar applications.)

The schedule, from http://www.zoo.org/zootunes/index.html

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Something you don’t see every day…

When I first set up CainManor on slicehost, e-mail wasn’t working. The solution, based on this thread, was to install postfix.

apt-get install postfix  -Install postfix

edit /etc/postfix/main.cf

mydomain = cainmanor.com
myorigin = cainmanor.com
mynetworks_style = host

service postfix start -start the service to see if it works as expected.

chkconfig –list postfix - make sure it will start on boot.  The default install takes care of this

If you don’t think this is the cutest thing you’ve ever seen, then you’re dead inside. What’s that? You’re too much of a man for something like this. Why don’t you read this, then go put on some lipstick. That was a man, and I bet he thinks a pig wearing boots is cute.

From… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025428/Pig-Boots-The-worlds-porker-afraid-mud.html

Q: How do Republican commit suicide?

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I didn’t see this documented anywhere, but you have to create the following MIME types on your web server when you move to HTTP updates as your transport.

IS Manager -> <your server> -> Default Web Site -> Your Directory -> properties.

Go to http header -> MIME Types. Add

.m25 application/binary (for v10)
.x86 application/binary (for v8 & v9)

Restaurants I want to try for a tasty Mexican breakfast..

From The Stranger

El Sabor De Oaxaca
217 James Street
Seattle, WA (closed on weekends)

452 SW 153rd St
Burien, WA
(206) 242-2326

Memo’s Mexican Food
4743 University Way NE
Seattle 98105
(206) 729-5071

Austin Cantina
5809 24th Ave NW
Seattle 98107
(206) 789-1277

Señor Moose
5242 Leary Ave NW
Seattle 98107
(206) 784-5568

I found these photos on Flickr. She is from, and these photos are of, Iceland.  I think it conveys the general sense of the country quite well.

nmap -sP 10.1.1.0/24

When I need to find an open IP, this is a decent way to do it. I wish there were a way to find IPs that don’t respond, but this works for now. This won’t work if your network bans ICMP traffic, or your host doesn’t respond, but is alive.

From a command window run…

regsvr32 mshtml.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll -i
regsvr32 shell32.dll -i

After each command, you’ll get a pop-up window saying “xxx was registered”
I support a lot of W2K boxes