Say hello to ‘Nimitz’
It’s been no secret that the computing power in our friendly server cluster has been falling behind demand. We have 30-40 users and dozens of websites being driven by a pair of 1U servers that, to...
View ArticleAzureus / Vuze under Ubuntu FAIL!
I’m not sure who to blame here, but someone should get drawn and quartered. I’m working on setting up Azureus Vuze to run headless on yawl while I’m not around. To test it, I decided to install and run...
View ArticleThe Language Umbrella
What happens when there’s a rampant conversation going on on a geek channel? It’s time for Umbrella Metaphors. “If a language were used to make an umbrella, what would it look like?” Naturally, there...
View ArticleApple iTunes Store failure during 3.0 update.
Well this isn’t going so well. I’m all excited about the iPhone 3.0 update. I docked my iPhone, started iTunes and saw it download the update pretty quickly. This is good, I think – that means the...
View Article“Free Memory” iPhone app Saves The Day
So I’m sure ya’ll are sitting on the edge of your seat wondering how my iPhone upgrade has gone after the the other day’s fun. Seems this wasn’t a problem limited to just me, which is cold comfort, but...
View ArticleTech Tip: Muting loud Hardware Beep under Ubuntu Linux
Posting this one for the masses of humanity out there that are just slobbering for a quick fix to this problem. There’s a twitchy problem in GTK under Linux regarding sound that sometimes lets the...
View ArticleHeavy Metal DVD – Awesome Documentary
One of the fun things about being settled into the new house is going through all my old movies and watching them again. I’d been putting off watching Heavy Metal for a while – through no other reason...
View ArticleCamping, Ice cream, and Friends
Back from an awesome weekend in upstate New York with about 180 friends. Geek camping at it’s best. One of the the weekend was making in the neighborhood of 140 different flavors of ice cream using...
View ArticleNASA Moon Landing Tapes – A Tech’s Perspective.
With all the bruhaha going on about finding the ‘lost’ NASA moonlanding tapes, a conversation came up on a tech list I’m on regarding some of the misinformation floating around. Scott Dorsey, a man who...
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