if you have a chance, stop by www.illperipherals.net and shoot some feedback my way. it's just a personal site that I use primarily to test new modules and scripts and host files for friends, but I've got a growing bookmark selection dealing with home automation and other tech-related nonsense.

-raoult

I like it. Cool template and very cool buttons.

hey, thanks a lot man. like I said, it's pretty much just a glorified personal ftp server right now, but I'm trying to make myself get some of my how-tos and other content put up. my new years resolution was to stay away from m$ windows, so I'm currently in the process of cleaning off all my old ntfs drives and organizing the years of collected content buildup. check back in a while, and I should have things in a little better order.

-raoult

That's a good resolution for anyone IMO.

agreed. I had seen a demo of ubuntu-live and I was really impressed as it looked like it approached a distro that I could get my moms on. I'm not a gnome fan (no need to go into that whole thing here <g>), but when I saw kubuntu, I decided to give it a try. I've run debian on boxen and the xbox before, so it was really a breeze to get flying.

anyways, not to get too OT, I wanted to bring attention to a new module I've implemented on illperipherals - it's written by designformambo.com/ and they offer a "free" lite version (that I am using) and another pay version. it's a web 2.0 ajax stylee search module, and I've been really happy with it. I don't have it integrated with my main site search as of yet, but you can see the demo in the upper-right corner of the site. on their site, it says that both lite and pay versions exist under an opensource license, so I'm not quite sure what that means here, as you cannot d/l the "pay" ver. I haven't looked into it further, as I am quite happy w/ the lite, but I would highly recommend anyone looking for a slick search interface to check it out.
(btw - I'm not affiliated in any way but a user)
-raoult