Chris on February 22nd, 2008

This is how conspiracy theories get started…….

Star-Telegram.com: | 02/21/2008 | Police concerned about order to stop screening
DALLAS — Security details at Barack Obamas rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

Chris on February 20th, 2008

How to mount a filesystem inside a harddrive image

# losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage
# fdisk -l /dev/loop0
(example)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1044 8385898+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 1045 19457 147902422+ 83 Linux

suppose you want to mount the partition on sdb2, the offset for that
would be 8225280 * 1045 = 8595417600.

detach the disk image
# losetup -d /dev/loop0
and setup the loop for the partiion
# losetup -o8595417600 /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage
and mount it
# mount -t fstype /dev/loop0 /path/to/mountdir

Chris on February 12th, 2008

Despite public sentiment, Sundays likely to stay dry for now | ajc.com

Chris Farris, chairman of the Liberty Caucus, sees Sunday sales as a free-market issue that matches basic Republican principles.

“Its not only a no-brainer for the caucus, it should really be a non-brainer for a Legislature that is controlled by a party that supposedly espouses the free market,” Farris said.

While several members of his caucus who oppose the bill are counted among the Senate leadership, Farris said it appears that Perdue — a religious conservative who doesnt drink — is the stumbling block. Perdue all but threatened to veto the bill, saying Georgians should show better “time management” if they want to purchase alcoholic beverages by buying them on other days of the week.

“The Senate saw no reason to pass a bill the governor was going to veto and irritate one faction of the [Republican] party without getting any benefit for the other faction, the free-market side,” Farris said.

Still, he said hes not giving up.

“My hope is it will get a hearing in committee this year,” Farris said. “The RLC is going to press for that.”

Chris on February 11th, 2008

John McCain is a “true conservative,” President Bush says

How they hell would you know what a conservative is, Mr. President?

Chris on February 4th, 2008

Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues at Tech Crunch.