doit, doit now!

Poor Tuttle, OK– they have Jerry Taylor as their City Manager. It seems his hosting provider installed CentOS, an excellent Linux distribution, on the computers used to host Tuttle’s web site, but never configured the computers after the initial install. The web site thus simply showed the default CentOS web page, which includes instructions as to how to configure it. Jerry Taylor instead wrote the CentOS team and threatened to call the FBI unless they “removed their website from his website.”

The CentOS guys were extremely nice about it, even as they became exasperated with how dense this guy was. They had no obligation to provide any support to this guy, but they did, and every time they asked him for the information they needed he became more irate and ignorant. Finally they just went ahead and figured out who the guy’s ISP was for him and told him to go ask the ISP, and after the ISP resolved it, Jerry had the audacity to tell the CentOS guys that it would have been better for them to solve the problem for him more quickly.

Hats off to Jerry Taylor, the most smartest man in Tuttle, OK!

I was tooling around looking for a Gallery2 export plugin for iPhoto to make it easy for my Dad to upload pictures of his new restaurant, Stella’s Restaurant and Bar, to his website. I found a couple examples, but none of them had been compiled for Intel Macs. Luckily the source is available for Gallery2Export, so I just downloaded it and compiled it with XCode. I’ve done this with a few other FOSS packages lately in order to make Intel-native versions, and generally have met with excellent success.

Here’s the file if you’re interested.