Technology

Grr… figured one thing on my todo list this weekend was to swap the hard drive in this server for a new one. I want to replace the 2 SCSI drives setup in RAID0 configuration (for a whopping total of 4G of space) for a spare IDE drive. While Cuv may be agast at this, […]

Dear $DEITY in the heavens above, or travelling through the network, let the tech support people at Network Solutions understand my question give them the ability to read grant upon them oh holy of holy ones, and controller of all things, the understanding of simple questions presented to them let them fix a simple problem

Finally I’ve found justification for having my two monitors set up! I wonder if more monitors makes you even more productive? I’m sure around the 32 monitor mark you’ll lose some productivity due to craning your neck though.

Recently everyone seems to be going mad for RSS. A search engine, countless articles and flamewars about RSS, RSS2, (n)Echo (or whatever the next gen version of RSS will be called) and of course it’s whole attachment to the newly in vogue blogging phenomenon. Basically it’s a way of defining data in a structured way,

Yea, I’m back in the “convert something to PDF” mindset. This time it’s HTML. Had a meeting with J and P at Moxies in Surrey (fantastic enciladas by the way) and at the end sort of realized that doing things as an HTML to PDF conversion instead of a PDF with inserted text thing would

Oh joy, another Windows security problem for IE. “Impact of vulnerability: Run code of attacker

< p>I noticed a post from scoble in the comments to a (literal) lets bash Microsoft post. One comment complained about the bloat: 1. I hate that VS.net (as wonderful as it is), is so frickin bloated. To which Robert replied: 1) I’m learning C# and using Notepad. Is that bloated? And who cares about

Well, me and Fred wandered down to the new Paralynx offices (nice digs) dropped off a case of Guiness for Tom and Ken who have gone above and beyond the call of duty more than once to help a non-paying hanger on (me) with various things, picked up the (huge) server and headed out. The

Talked to Iambe a bit this morning and she asked what was up with staticred [archive.org link] and fozbaca. I went to check and sure enough my upgrade yesterday to clear out the list of upgraded packages on UFies caused problems. Something in php4 + mysql/postgres/imap combined with an imap problem with libc-client2002 (part of

An interesting article on The Register about the flood of “we funded this study but that doesn’t matter because it proves windows is better than linux” that Microsoft has sent out lately. Taken with the grain of salt that Register articles must always be taken with, they have a point. There was some discussion a