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+date: "2000-07-26T10:42:00Z"
+title: EWL Updates
+---
+
+I've been working on <a href="/projects">EWL</a> a lot lately -- in
+fact 
+<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">giblet</a> and
+<a href="http://www.richlowe.net/">richlowe</a> have
+been helping too.  Rather than go over all the details, I went ahead
+and modified my update script so it posts the ChangeLog.  You can
+check that out <a href="/projects/ewl/ChangeLog">here</a>.  If you
+want to try out the snapshot, _please_ read the ChangeLog -- it's
+the only accurate documentation that exists ATM, and it has a lot
+of useful tips (for example, running src/create_personal_preferences.sh
+so EWL doesn't SEGV on startup).  No, there isn't any rendering yet,
+yes there is rudimentary theme support.<br /><br />
+
+I moved all my screenshots from
+<a href="http://www.efn.org/~p_duncan/">my old EFN page</a> to the
+<a href="/screenshots/">screenshots page</a>, and I preserved the
+captions and added some updated commentary.  There are still a 
+lot of things strewn across various accounts that I'd like to move
+onto Pablotron, but that will have to wait until after a redesign
+(yes, it will happen eventually).  It'll be SQL queries all over
+the place, and I'd like to make it themable, but we'll see what
+happens.  I actually had a working themable PHP sample page, I don't
+think I'm going to go with that implementation after all.<br /><br />
+
+Our cable modem got cut off last week.  Apparenly I was $11 short
+on the bill or something.  Anyways, I didn't realize that it was 
+about to get cut off, and I payed the entire bill with a credit
+card within 12 hours of the service being shut off, but for some
+reason @Home told me it would take 72 hours to turn it back on. 
+That's fine, except it took twice that long, and I had to call at
+least 5 times before I got a "priority ticket" or some crap. I 
+could go on, but Sean wrote a really nice summary of what dealing
+with @Home customer service is like over on
+<a href="http://10k.dhs.org/">the 10k page</a>.  Unfortunately,
+they're problems still aren't resolved, so you can't reack 10k
+at the moment.<br /><br />
+
+<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org">Kuro5hin</a>, one of my favorite
+news pages (ie one of the few pages I read on a daily basis), was
+shut down because of DoS attacks on the anonymous story submission
+queue.  This really sucks.  It wasn't even a creative or complicated
+attack -- the non-computer analogy would be vandalizing a public
+restroom, only this is worse.  The people running Kuro5hin were all
+volunteers who dedicated their time to the page because they 
+enjoyed working on it, not because they were being payed.  I liked
+the stories on kuro5hin better than "the other site" (how everyone
+on kuro5hin referred to
+<a href="http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>), and the comments
+were usually more interesting.  Supposedly, they're going to take
+a break, remove the anonymous submission, and return after a month,
+but things like this are incredibly frustrating.  DoS is stupid. 
+It's not l33t, and you're not a cool computer h4x0r if you know how
+to run a smurf daemon on your grandma's iMac.<br /><br />
+
+Finally, seeing as how I don't have any interesting photos to post
+(besides <a href="/gallery/gnea_thinks_im_leet.jpeg">this picture of
+Gnea</a>), I'll direct you towards Tom Gilbert's vacation photos.  His
+sister is pretty good looking. :)  Check her, um I mean his vacation
+photos, out
+<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/pics/holiday_france_2000/index.html">here</a> (I'm just kidding, Tom.  Although I do wish everyone in #e had dressed 
+up in monkey suits as a suprise when you got back).
+<br /><br />
+
+Anyways, more later....
+