Many of you know my day job is that of a systems administrator. As one, I have to be concerned about things like data integrity, backups and disaster recovery. Somehow, while on one of my daily train rides, my mind wandered and hit on the fact that I really don’t perform these functions at home, […]
HELP! I need ideas for new server names and I am just drawing a blank. As many of you know, I name my computers after cryptids, or possibly undiscovered creatures. My list right now is: Bigfoot Sasquatch Yeti Wendigo JerseyDevil Chupacabras Nessie Ogopogo Mothman Kraken and Bumble. Yes, I know Bumble really doesn’t belong, but […]
For a couple years now I have been running a headless (broken) IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop as my home server. It has served it’s new function admirably. Initially, I had thought that maybe there would be a heat issue so I stuck it on a fan plate, but it has been running 2 years with […]
Ahh, there heresy! Yup, I finally got off my butt and bought a new laptop and IT’S A MAC! A Macbook 5,2, dual core 2ghz, initially with 2gb of ram. How can this be, you may ask. I thought you are a Linux guy! Well, rest assured, I still am. Although I am no Apple […]
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I have put anything in here, interesting or not. I Am sure now that I have noticed, there will be the usual deluge of posts catching you all up, so beware. Over the past weekend, for some reason, I decided that it had been long enough in […]
(sung to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song) Oh, this is a story ’bout a man named Joe. He sent me an OSD a couple years ago. An’ just the other day he said “You really should review…” Then he boxed up and sent me a Neuros Link too… OK, OK I know, […]
Time for some catchup again I think. I had a great Christmas, and I hope the same for you all. Invariably, people want to know “whatcha got”, so here ’tis: I got a radio/cdplayer. I had been wanting a radio for the house for some time now. Now I just need to find a place […]
A couple weeks ago, Dann was saying how he was reading the Watchmen, and remarking on how good it was. Well, I hadn’t EVER read a graphic novel, or even touched a comic since I was maybe 10, so I decided to pick it up to see what I was missing. Well, I am finished […]
Ok, so I am a little behind the times. I *FINALLY*, just yesterday had the opportunity to watch the new Willy Wonka movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Wow! They took a wonderfully eccentric, yet warm Willy Wonka character, best played by the brilliant Gene Wilder and made him into a somewhat creepy, dysfunctional psychopath […]
I know I haven’t posted in a while again. It’s getting to be one of those things where I have so much going on I don’t know where to start 🙂 I have been working on my RackSpace application a bit. Well, enough to get it registered on Sourceforge. Not sure what else to do […]