Slashdot brought up a story called Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful, a note on a blog entry by Cuzimatter on his experiences, both good and bad, with Gentoo Linux. One of his assertions was that Gentoo was too risky for servers: The best way to keep a system stable is to get it working and […]
Gentoo On The Server Read Post »
I set up a blog for Iambe and decided to play a bit with the WordPress blogging engine and thought it was pretty slick compared to Movable Type and started looking at using it for this Blog. The install of the latest version, WordPress 2.1 was super-easy, unzip, put in the database login information, go
Adventures with WordPress Read Post »
I’m wondering if Darren’s hardware karma has somehow rubbed off a bit on me…. First of all, midway through the day yesterday my mouse scroll partially died. Having no scroll wheel sucks when you are used to it. “OK,” thinks I. “I was thinking about a new mouse anyway, and Firefly will be going by
Odd Hardware Karma (A Tale of Mice and KVMs) Read Post »
Super cool, check out this gallery of Coloured Smoke images. The main site is here, but seems to be down right now.
Gallery of Smoke Pictures Read Post »
One of our cats, Patches, seems to be peeing in the house, not in the litter box. I say seems, though there really is little doubt of it. At christmas when we brought a couple of chairs in for Christmas dinner so family would have somewhere to sit the second we brought them in she
What To Do With a Cat That Pees in the House? Read Post »
Quick wrap up as I just got back from my seven day cruise in Mexico…. Had a great time for the most part, brought back booze (tequila of course) and lots of pictures (downloading from the iPod I borrowed to store them on as we speak). I did not: Get a tattoo Buy a timeshare
Heading out on vacation, so no updates here for a while. I’ll be basking in the sun till next Sunday. I’ll be turning comments off here until I’m back too, cause there’s just too much comment spam to leave it for a week without inadvertantly advertising whatever nastyness is the scam of the day. I
Leavin’ on a Jet Plane (and a Boat!) Read Post »
Wow, woke up this morning with the groggy feeling that I was late because it was lighter outside than normal, when I finally got near a window there was five friggin’ inches of snow! By the time I got to the car and realized it was pretty bad I was already committed. The snow was
Well, it’s a bit like spring cleaning, and while it did involve cleaning (mostly to dig for my Ruby on Rails book… did I lend this to anyone or has it been timewarped out of my office completely?), it was mostly about cleanup. I finally got around to installing the new monitor I got at
Setting up Auto-Backup for Digital Pictures In Linux Read Post »
Not that long ago I got myself a new system based on the Intel DP965LT motherboard. The only thing that I still can’t get going is the microphone. Anyone else have this working with this hardware? What happens is that basically nothing happens when I plug in the microphone. No output when I yell into
Intel DP965LT and Microphone Read Post »