Technology

Just for fun I decided to start running the latest Firefox 2.0 RC1 release. This is close to what Firefox will be like when it’s released. I’ve got my impressions and some screenshots after the read more link….

I put this here because I’ve been bitten by it several times now, and it sucks to have to figure it out each time, especially with that nagging niggle in the back of my head that I’ve done this before, just that the last time I rebooted the machine and had it was so long

So tonight while I was doing some coding on the Linux box, I installed the Vista Beta 2 that Microsoft so graciously put out for legal download and install. I installed on a spare 20G drive with my main hard drive unplugged, just in case. It wouldn’t be the first time I chose the wrong

Well, Darren looks like he’s getting himself a little macbook (the bastard) and that’s something I’ve been looking at / lusting over since they were announced. I was even thinking of persuading ScoobyD to sell me her old G3 iBook until the intel versions were announced with twice the speed (or whatever). One of the

A while back I built a MythTV box for my buddy, got it all up and running, though on an old Pentium 2 system with a small hard drive and a really ugly case. The system had a PVR-350 in it, which does hardware encode and decode, so the CPU speed didn’t matter a whole

Well, other than price that is. If you get an intel based Macbook you can download a nifty little utility from Apple called Boot Camp which allows you to set up a dual boot of windows xp / vista and linux. Apparently games play nice and fast as well…. So now you have the sexyness

Signs you know something is up with a server #28: bash-2.05# uptime   2:11pm up 34 days, 7:49, 3 users, load average: 167.50, 163.29, 153.79 bash-2.05# Not my server specifically, one that I’m working on though. Luckily just after I got this “screenshot” I re-logged in and the co-lo had rebooted the box.

The upgrade went well yesterday, in fact, about as close to flawless as you can get. Other than poor fred having to ride in the back of my little sports car (with the huge server box on the passenger seat), things went well. We got there around 11am and then basically set up both boxes

Well, after ages and ages I’ve finally upgraded to Apache 2. Seeing as the software has been out for a while now (a few years at least), and when I’m doing contract work it seems like the hosts that I’m setting up on have apache2 installed already, I figured it was probably time to make

I saw a link to topdesk 1.4.x software over on Digg which boasted to be an alt-tab replacement that mimicks what Microsoft Vista‘s sexy composited alt-tab does. It’s now 5 minutes later and while it is extremely sexy, it’s about to be removed. The reason? Being presented with a screen of thumbnails of current apps,