A buddy of mine at work is a very good budding photographer. Occasionally he will put one of his pics up as wallpaper on his machine so I can catch a glimpse. I have been bugging him to get some online presence going so I can see some more of his work and finally, this […]
After a year at my new job I finally got a new computer to work on. This thing is absolutely smokin! It’s a Dell Latitude D630, Core2Duo 2.5ghz, 4gb ram, 120gb hdd and all the trimmings PLUS 2 20″ monitors to hook to the dock. That’s right, my desktop is 3360×1050. I have to say […]
A quickie note about my use of the alpine email client lately. It came to my attention today that my emails were getting delivered with incorrect From and Reply-To addresses. Somehow alpine munges the smtp account holder user name you are using with the domain you specify in the config file as your default From […]
Because so many of you have asked: I mentioned last week on the show that I was digging once again using some text applications. Just for recap I am using screen, alpine, and bsflite regularly to get me going in the morning. Screen is a utility a person who uses the command line simpoly cannot […]
This will be of interest to any of my fellow computer professionals out there: Recently I have been bombarded every time I turn on the TV with commercials from ComputerTraining.Com. This is an institution which boasts that in just 6 months it can turn your life around with an exciting new and high paying career […]
So, I sent my daughter to Hawaii this summer with some schoolmates on a science trip. She just got back a few days ago and brought me a present – a little hula girl dashboard bobble head doll. She’s the only thing I have adorning my desk right now and looks pretty lonely there. I’ll […]
What does an entire year of cube life look like? Well, it looks like this. This is the pile I have accumulated after working at the Uni for a year. I just got to move into my new cubie diggs and managed to fit all my stuff on one cart 😉 Now what I really […]
One of the applications I have been working on at work is RackSpace. Basically, it’s an application that helps track rackmounted servers and equipment and their placement, power, vlan and BTU usage in a datacenter. Of course, this started out as one of those deals where there just wasn’t a utility available that did exactly […]
I am sure some of you have been wondering why I recently dropped off the face of the earth. Well, my company sent me to RedHat training last week. Now most of you know I have been “doing” Linux for a very long time. Some of you may recall that I used RedHt early on, […]
I almost forgot about this. Just the other day I walked out of my building to see this. This is typical of people always in a hurry to go nowhere. There seem to be a lot of them in Philly for some reason. Anyhow, from what I could gather this is a 5 car pile […]