I finally got around to competing building that spare computer I have been talking about. In the process I discovered I don’t have a lot of spare decent sized hard drives (my largest is a 10 Gig that I inherited from work (legitimately, I swear!)). I did discover though that I have a lot of […]
My Collection of old Hard Drives Read Post »
Someone want to give me a hand duplicating this project? I’ve always wanted a hidden room behind a bookshelf….
Secret Hidden Door Project Read Post »
Just overheard a conversation out in the hall here at work. (The boss on playful rivalry with another coworker) ” … we’ve been having this battle for years now. So the last laptop I got when it came in I got an email saying ‘Your new laptop came in. I opened it. Now you have
Overheard in the Halls Read Post »
I must be overloading on caffiene or something, last night I went to bed at midnight (latest consulting project is taking forever) and couldn’t sleep. Got back up at a bit before 1am to surf until I was tired. Back to bed at 1:30 or so but no sleep came…. Not sure when the sandman
More Sleepless Nights Read Post »
This post is for Firefly, a pointer to this cute picture (with a subtle commentary on interracial dating as well, but mostly cuteness). Here’s the link where I originally got the image (a discussion on fark.com on interracial dating). Did I say it made sense? 😛
I was just witness to a moment in classic radio history. I’ve been listening to the Howard Stern show for a year or so now, and one of the incidents that they’ve referred is when the producer of the show, Gary Dell’Abate made a tape of some sort for his ex-girlfriend who left him. Anyway,
A Moment in Radio History, the Gary Dell’Abate Nancy Tape Read Post »
I’ve been meaning to put together another computer for a while now to play with some of the windows technology that I haven’t played with (active directory, exchange, project server, IIS, sql server, etc). Last weekend I cobbled together a xp1700 system from spare parts and assembled it on the desk. Ran an install and….
Fun with Burn In Tests Read Post »
Well, Google‘s gone and done it again with a web-based RSS News Aggregator. Simple and easy, sexy and fast. Just when I was going to check out something like Bloglines or Feedlounge (not open to the public yet though). The Google reader will get a full workout from me in the next couple of days,
Linux has a article on Xen, a virtualization system similar to user mode linux, which I did a report on a while back. Xen is used by Unixshell, a company that provides web hosting on virtual machines (no affiliation with them, just noting they use the same tech). Here’s a link to some Xen multi-distros-running-all-at-once