Both bebo and LinkedIn have little notes when you invite people to be your "friend" telling you to only invite people that are actually friends or that you actually know. LinkedIn even has a punishment for inviting people that you don't know:

recipients can indicate that they don’t know you. If they do, you’ll be asked to enter an email address with each future invitation.

Using Java's javax.sound package to play audio seems to do something that prevents other applications from playing sound with ALSA at the same time. My sound card doesn't do hardware mixing, so I assume that ALSA's dmix is used by default, and Java is using a hw device directly instead of ALSA's default device.

I searched for a while, but couldn't find a solution.

Getting java sound to use OSS and running java inside aoss seems to workaround the problem.

It's been a while since I've wanted to use stand-alone PHP files and call drupal from those files. There are two cleaner ways to do such a thing:

The dries fc6 tsocks rpm still installs in Fedora 7. torify is a trivial shell script that gets generated if you compile tor yourself, but doesn't seem to be included in the tor rpms. The bulk of the work is done in a file called tor-tsocks.conf which you can create for yourself:

server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 9050
local = 127.0.0.0/255.128.0.0
local = 127.128.0.0/255.192.0.0

While I was waiting in line to buy some stuff today, the cash register crashed while trying to open the drawer to make change for the person in front of me.  After a few minutes, they decided to reboot the machine, at which point I saw it had 256MB of memory and was running linux (it had the frame-buffer boot screen with the penguin at the top).  The first time it tried to boot, it crashed and rebooted while trying to run fsck.  Strangely, the second time it booted just fine.  The POS software started up exactly where it had died, and kicked out the drawer.

After a somewhat painful search (it's still very, very difficult for me to navigate around chinese web pages), I found some software that allows you to play 斗地主 (dou dizhu, aka the landlord game, aka the original variant of rich man, poor man/asshole/president/etc) against other people online in linux.

Third-party implementations of QQ seem to break every so often. Probably intentional on the part of Tencent. The most recent breakage happened around the beginning of june.  The symptom is this message showing up in Help/Debug Window:

Wrong password, server msg in UTF8: 尊敬的用户，您的QQ版本已经停止使用，

请到http://im.qq.com/qq/dlqq.shtml

下载并安装最新的QQ版本。

Some RPM packages for fedora core 6 and fedora 7 including one for the evaq QQ client.

Ran into another problem with Democracy player:

There's now a version of safari for windows. But it sounds like it doesn't run in wine.