I wrote a little bit ago about my writing a little service monitor script, OpenServerMon, yes, I know the name has changed already. Well, the reason I wrote the script initially is I wanted to be notified when my home internet service went down. Wouldn’t you know it, it worked…. A LOT! Apparently, I put […]
There is nothing like having happy fuzzies.
Ferret math is a curious mathematical oddity whereby one ferret mysteriously becomes many. It can happen a million different ways, but almost certainly it will happen to most ferret owners. This is how it happened to me just this past weekend. When last I wrote, my friend Benny had to be put to sleep. They […]
The bad part of being a pet owner is that, in eventuality, you have to deal with the death of a friend. Today I had to put my friend Benny to sleep. He had been quite ill much of his life with some undiagnosed illness and mass in his lung, not to mention his heart […]
I had this old Belkin wireless router at home, and I knew it was on the way out for some time now. The symptoms were it would occasionally just stop allowing any new connections. A couple weeks ago I purchased a nice little Netgear wireless router to replace it with, but as luck would have […]
I noticed today that my laptop was building a little dust/crud on it today so I set out to clean it up. Nothing annoys me more than to have to use a dirty laptop/keyboard. It sort of gnaws on me until I fix it. Anyway, I was cleaning my laptops and keyboards, mice and monitors […]
Some times you run into some software that does just what you wanted and no more. ilohamail does just that. For a long time now I have been running my own mail server of sorts. The short explanation is I use fetchmail to aggregate my email from various sources to my own local home server, […]
Crap. That’s my final thought on the subject. Last night I decided to finally update my wireless infrastructure and start using WPA instead of just using mac filtering. It’s not that I am uber concerned about the security aspect of it because, let’s face it, the only way to really have a secure box and […]
I have to tell you that I almost feel bad about this…. almost. I just purchased the Acer Asrpire One. I purchased it at the local Microcenter as it seems they are sold out everywhere else around here. I, of course, bought the one with the 8gb solid state drive, Linux (Linpus Lite) and 512mb […]
A good while ago I remember voicing my opinion on the show about those new Netbooks, the sub-compact notebooks/laptops that everyone was buying. It was my opinion that they were underpowered and pricey for what they actually offered. After all, why buy a mini notebook when you can get a fairly good regular notebook for […]