One of the real perks of working/living in the Philly area that never occurred to me before coming here was the fantastic street musicians. Sure, there are some real stinkers, but I have run across some really great ones in my travels through the train stations. Today, I stopped and bought a cd from just […]
Now I know most of you have seen one of my old computer setups at home, but since moving and all I have had to severely downsize. I figured there would be at least a few of you who were interested in what I am running now. Things have been whittled down a lot! I […]
Yup. Finally took the plunge the other day and installed bind on my home server so I have local DNS. All in all, it was really painless. I followed a nice tutorial available at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dns-server-setup-using-bind-in-ubuntu.html which details the entire simple process. The only snag I hit was after I was complete, I could resolve external […]
That’s what I call my internal network, linc.lan.. Before I moved I had an extensive network with a number of hand-rolled services like bind and dhcp and mail and the like. After I moved, I pretty much just folded and used the default services provided to me by my little belkin wireless router. The real […]
Yes, I was part of the unwashed masses that went out on opening night to see the Transformers. All I have to say is “wow”. Fantastic movie. Superb special effects. This was even great for the younger audience that hasn’t seen the original stuff. In fact, I took my daughter, who is 13. 3/4 through […]
I am in my late 30s and almost everyone I know in my age group has been divorced. Statistics say that 34% of people in my age bracket are divorced (but I think it’s higher), and they also say that 50% of marriages end in divorce. Those are some pretty rattling numbers for my married […]
Since my wife is home for good now, I got a “honey-do” list. There are a lot of computer related things on there actually, and one of the first is get her online again. Well, that may not be at the top for her, but for me it is because if she has no online […]
OK, ok. I know you guys are impatient, but I have been swamped, really. I cannot tell you the number of requests I have gotten for more/better apartment pictures, so last night, in a 5 minute flurry, I ran about taking pics with my better camera. These show that I have indeed been unpacking lately […]
How to start a day out bad: Run out the door at 6:30am and lock your only set of keys inside. Note that this is especially fun when your wife, with the other set of keys, is almost 2 hours north of your location.
Did I ever mention yet that I work on the 14th floor? Don’t remember if I did. Well, just the other day we had a fire alarm (don’t think they ever actually found a reason), and policy is to always use the stairs if there is an alarm because you obviously don’t want to be […]