Technology

First of all, I have to give kudos to Henry Wong from Arena-MaxTronic, Inc. for putting up with me asking a bunch of really stupid questions and walking me through reconfiguring the MaxTronic Arena RAID box (similar to this one but an older version). I had been watching this box at work sitting beside the

So I went out with my Brother-In-Law Sunday to get him a new laptop. His requirements aren’t all that high, basically surfing and checking email, so we picked up a half decent deal at Future Shop, a little HP dual core system. When I started setting it up for him I remembered why I hate

Finally, Apple has created the iPod Touch for me. This is the version of the iPod that I’ve been waiting for for the last couple of years, and I haven’t gotten myself an iPod yet. Fullscreen video, the same touch system as the iPhone…. beauty. The only thing that I’m disappointed about is it doesn’t

Well, that didn’t take long. Facebook had their IPO (or equivalent), opened up their API to other developers, allowing them to make annoying little “applications” that let my friends spam my Facebook page with requests for zombies, tic-tac-toe, gaming, jedi knight battles, and other random stuff which I deny (nothing against those who sent it

Bah, another reboot of my file server, another half day lost to fiddling around to get it all back up and working again. I love Linux, but some of the problems I find here and there just piss me right off because there not the ones you’d have in a Microsoft world. Course, they also

naked proftpd # grep “no such user ‘Administrator'” proftpd.system.log | wc -l 155526 I sooooo hate spambot infested Windows piece of crap machines ran by incompetent operators, and I hate spambot infested linux piece of crap machines ran by incompetent operators. For those of you who don’t read geek, the above says that 155,526 login

Thanks to a post by Sema regarding the List of updated groups not appearing in Firefox 2.0.0.4 when using Google Reader. The fix is to add an exception rule “@@|http://www.google.com/reader/api/*” into AdBlock Plus (if you have it installed) as one of it’s default rules stops the google reader from running it’s javascript. I was pulling

Grrr….. while I appreciate that Apache 1.x is old and busted and it’s long past due to have converted to the new hotness of Apache 2.x, it really sucks to have your server’s OS distribution simply deprecate the package and disable the ability to build it as well as anything that depends on it. About

OSNews reports that OS/2 is 20 years old today. Wow, that makes me feel ooooold. My first experience with OS/2 was the 2.0 version (I think) around the end of highschool. According to Wikipedia 2.0 was released in 1992, so that’s about right. I think I remember going with Fred to go over to someone’s