ToDoList from Abstractspoon is a great tool on managing your todo list. In is comprehensive and easy manageable. Although it has a release that will run on windows it will also run on Linux using wine.
For this to work you do need to copy a few files from your native xp to your wine environment:
msxml.dll
msxml2.dll
msxml2r.dll
msxml3.dll
msxml3r.dll
msxml4.dll
msxml4r.dll
msxml6.dll
msxml6r.dll
msxmlr.dll
Register msxml3 as a library in wine and you’ve got a working ToDoList.
It worked using wine 1.0.1 and ToDoList 5.5.2

Feed the herd and fad maiden

Sweet milk is just for you
We can’t hurt the world we can’t
Swim without a bone
I am not yet, I am not dead
I am not yet, I am not dead
And what do you see
And what do you feel
And what do you know – from me
We fill evry single day, we fill evry single day

Deep inside You’re not open
Sleepin’ while contemn that’s rude
Feel the heart is not frozen
And I can’t stand a cold
I am not yet, I am not dead
I am not yet, I am not dead
What do you see?
What do you feel?
And why do you call for me?

We fill ev’ry single day
We fill ev’ry single day
Yeah yeah I’m so yeah yeah blind
Yeah yeah so it rock into my mind
Yeah yeah I’m so yeah yeah blind
Yeah yeah so it rock into my mind
I’ve got to find my way
I’ve got to find my way
I’ve got to find my way

Yeah yeah

How to Enable Auto-Complete Feature In The Command Prompt
It’ll turn on the auto-complete feature so when you type ‘cd d’ and hit the tab key, the console will display the list of folders that begin with the ‘d’ letter, and you’ll be able to choose the one you’re looking for, right from the console instead of typing its path.
1. Log on as Administrator,
2. Click Start, and then click Run,
3. Type Regedit and OK,
4. Double click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
5. Double click SOFTWARE,
6. Double click Microsoft,
7. Double click Command Processor,
8. In the right pane of Regedit, double click the ‘CompletionChar’ DWORD value,
9. Type 9 click OK,
10. Close Regedit,
11. Click start/programs/accessories/command prompt,
12. Type ‘cd d’ and hit the Tab key: the first folder that matches the ‘d’ letter is displayed (you can switch from folders pushing several times the Tab key).

Got win2k running, and putting a new HD in your system but the size does not seem match what you had in mind??… Well check if you have win2k enabled to handle disks > 137Gb.
1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
4. Quit Registry Editor.
5. Reboot and check again.. 🙂

Finally Ubuntu (7.04) Feisty came to live. I started to like Ubuntu because it is very easy to use just like it states it is “Linux for human beings”. (Un)fortunately a few days after the release the harddisk of my development machine crashed. This meant i was out of order for a few days to get everything up and running again. The obvious choice for the OS was Ubuntu Feisty.
The installation procedure went as smooth as you could imagine. And for a day i was very happy. But then i wanted to use specific programs and settings which were not so well supported.
For example:
For developing with Ruby i use RadRails. RadRails uses a java virtual machine and is a subset of eclipse IDE. No problem so far. But because i was having some problems with getting RadRails to work together with svn using the javahl i decided to give it a go with eclipse, because also eclipse has some ruby plugins available. I used the apt-get to install eclipse. This installs a new jdk which is then also used by Radrails. This resulted in not beeing able to search in files anymore and every java application went into turtle mode (slow). It seemed it was shipped with java-gcj ?**?? so after half a day trying different things i decided to use the SUN jdk again. I worked, and pretty fast to…
The second problem was configuring apache2 to handle https. For that you need a certificate..Only the script for generating the script was left out of Feisty, meaning that a lot of the tutorials did not apply anymore. After a long search i found a post on this site saying he had an easy solution by using the a file called apache2-ssl.tar.gz… thanx again man….

Sometimes you want to try new things, so i decided to get a web-mail typ of thing running. By doing so i had to put my head into php again (more into ruby nowadays). But anyway i needed some modules to get loaded. No problem i figured… checked everything, made the adjustments.. but no voila 🙁 . Although i was sure path setting were ok, it still did not work. After searching the web for a while i ran into the following . The person Anon mentioned something about checking the dll’s you’re trying to load with a program called depends.exe …. and among all the rubbish found during the search, this on worked…Thanx man 🙂

The period of being a student seems way back for me. I’ve gotten used to driving a car and not depending on public transportation (pt), but sometimes using pt does have its advantages… like you’re able to have few drinks and still go around. So a week ago i went to a concert which was not in my hometown so i had to use pt for that matter. After the concert i would stay for the night in a small city. We would first go by train and followed by a small trip by bus. Which was supposed to be a trip of 50 minutes turned out to a trip of 1,5 hour. First the train arrived to late. Because the train was late, we missed the bus by a few minutes (nice communication) . So we had to wait outside in the freezing cold. And at that moment i reaaaaaaalllllyyyy missed my car.
I know the government is trying to get everybody to use pt….but be real.. why would i ever want to do that?… it is still not a good alternative…. we’ve got things pretty well worked out in NL, but somehow pt is not part of that…. sweet car
(i drive a toyota starlet)

Ok ok i am not to fond on the concept of making virtual worlds and getting people to live in there… I tried it a few times with ‘second life’ and to be honest.. i thought it really sucked. Bad graphics, unnatural response of the surroundings as well as the character.
But now with the introduction of the sony ps3, i think a have to revise my opinion. I saw a movie about ps3’s home concept.
Check it out…
it’s another motivation to buy a ps3

2 weeks ago this server was hacked. I was unfortunate to have an old version of realvncrunning which made me vulnerable, since the old version contained a bug which could lead to access without using a password.
This machine is a private server, so i don’t check it every day. But on a morning i started to notice a lot of traffic going on, so i decided to check what was the cause. I immediately saw things were bad. Someone logged in on the administrator account and several programs where running which i did not install, like an sms program, live messenger, MSservice.exe and a password (brute force) cracking program.
At that time i had to go to work so i had to shut down the machine (just in case). Later that day i tried to reboot it but that is where things got out of hand. During a disk check i found bad sectors a.o. which i could not fix. So after more than a day trying to fix things, but ending up putting a new install… I want to thank the motherf*ckers for not putting a simple textfile on the the desktop saying “Warning we are hackers, and we entered your machine…please fix the problem….evil grinn”