top -ocpu -O+rsize

Plop an alias in your .bash_profile file and never think about it again.

Update…
I had to modify the original script for Myth 0.20. You can find my updated script here. (Right click and choose Save As…)

There are countless pricesless quotes there. Here is a sample of a few:

Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers.

WTF??? Windows is far more vulnerable then ANYTHING else out there.

Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.

Wha, wha, wha??? Why would Osama care that he can watch DVD’s without having to purchase software to do so? I am sure that this is the the top priority in his mind.

If you see a company using Linux, it may be that they have not paid for this software. Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority to inspect any company’s computers for illegal programs like Linux.

How, just how, is Linux an Illegal piece of software? What laws is it breaking? The laws of Corporatism? And of course they haven’t paid for it, it is FREE!

The name alone (LINUX) sounds kind of queer to me!

You will also note that Mitnick, being a real hacker, never worked to improve such anti american system as Linux

I am using real AMERICAN software only. Everything else is for the Godless.
You need to turn to God and face the real you. You might be shocked.

Regardless of what Google may think of Linux; it is still the choice of terrorists, paedophiles and democrats. I think we can judge this product by the company it keeps.

Ok, Ok. Too many good quotes here. I really can’t stop laughing.

Oh, and while you are on this wonderful website, don’t forget to Join The Presidential Prayer Team.

mplayer -ac hwac3,hwdts, -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s

mplayer was now sending AC3 audio through the pass-through in the sound card and the receiver was chewing it up and spittin out 5.1 glorious channels of dolby digital sound!

All fine and dandy, right? Wrong. I wanted to use xine for DVD playback as it supports DVD Menus and mplayer does not. Another quick Google search (there were countless ones today) and I had a command which would work with xine — except it didn’t. After reading about audio all day, I knew I had to putz around with my xine config and possibly my /etc/asound.conf file. 2 hours later, here is what I came up with:

asound.conf file

pcm.cmipci {
        type hw
        card 0
}

ctl.cmipci {
        type hw
        card 0
}

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave { pcm "spdif" }
}

.xine/config

audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through

The xine config file tells it to pass all audio through to the receiver. Now I can launch a DVD using this command:

xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd:/

media-tv/mythtv ~amd64
x11-themes/mythtv-themes ~amd64
media-plugins/mythbrowser ~amd64
media-plugins/mythvideo ~amd64
media-plugins/mythnews ~amd64
media-plugins/mythmusic ~amd64
media-plugins/mythgallery ~amd64
media-plugins/mythcontrols ~amd64
media-plugins/mythweather ~amd64
www-apps/mythweb ~amd64

Update: After 3 kernel recompiles to rid myself of framebuffer support and to add support for my SATA drive (doh!!), I can now boot into the command line without needing the Gentoo boot CD. Hurray!!

Also on the open-source front is htop, a suped-up ncurses version of top.

Sticking with the Alan Moore theme (the original creator of V), I finished reading The Watchme today. The Watchmen is the first graphic novel/comic book series that I have ever read. It was fairly entertaining, though I don’t picture myself reading much in the genre.

int links = rand(linkage);

Fiddler: Some people at work pointed me to a HTTP debugger named Fiddler. It will watch all HTTP traffic on your computer and it will allow you to more or less pause the traffic and modify it to your hearts desire. Sorry, Windows only.

Colibri: There is an app for Mac OS X called Quicksilver, which I absolutely can’t live without. Basically it is an application launcher which is invoked with a configurable keystroke. By default is it CTRL + Space, but on Windows, when running Visual Studio, CTRL + Space is mapped to Intellisence. Colibri is not a fully functional as Quicksilver is, and it is still in development, but for common tasks, such as running commands or launching applications, or browsing folders, it works very well. Details on how it determines it’s set of commands are sketchy, but I found out that it will scan your Start Menu items for applications to launch. So, I created a new folder called Colibri Actions there and placed shortcuts to the most commonly used applications or locations which I visit. Now, if I need to call up Visual Source Safe, I no longer have to navigate my mouse to the Start Menu to find it, I simply press CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE and then start typing the word Visual. Colibri will autocomplete the command for you and a simple press of the ENTER key launches the app. To make things simpler for myself, I renamed the shortcut to VSS so that CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE + VS + SPACE opens Visual Source Safe.

Ad-Blocking the Gnome Way: Use a proxy setting in Gnome to help rid yourself of annoying advertisements.

Upcomming outage

I have been contemplating switching web hosts to 1and1.com. They have Python support, which I am looking for so that I can run an instance of Planet to gather my web news and display them in a single page index.