Erci rocks! She bottled the first five gallon carboy of Blackcap mead today while I cleaned the dining room and foyer, then we decorated the tree together and watched the cats pretend to be forest predators by stalking each other and us from under the branches of the artificial tree. We’ll have to get more […]
Tagged Holidays, House, meadRick Warren is an obnoxious slime, that is pretty much self-evident to anyone capable of independent thought. He is, at first calculation, a horrible choice to have speak publicly at any inauguration (even a conservative one). The fact that Obama has chosen him to speak at this inauguration has mystified me for several days. It […]
Tagged Obama, Politics, ReligionIf you can use any of this stuff – ping me; I am sure my boss will take almost any offer. We have three 1U rack mount servers, each powered by a single core Intel P4 Xeon @3.00GHz with 1024K L2 cache, 1GB of memory (two 512MB PC3200 sticks filling two of four DIMM sockets […]
Tagged ComputersSo, according to the “Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova” article in BusinessWeek, Palm is about to release a new PDA operating system. I am interested because I still use my very old Palm Tungsten C device regularly, despite having an iPhone 3G now. The iPhone 3G is a fantastic mobile phone (perhaps the best […]
Tagged gadgets, iPhone, Palm Tungsten C, PDASteve (my brother) and I drove up to Rome to visit Mom and his daughters who live in Utica, Herkimer, and Camden. There was a winter snow-storm in Norwich and Utica Thursday night, but thankfully the roads were clear by the time we drove through Friday night. Beautiful scenery though with all the fresh snow […]
Tagged memories, Rome NY, snowSo that dragging feeling I recently noticed, and the lower gas mileage, and funny metal clanking noise were not random; turns out I busted a front axle, boot, and UV joint. Dealer is estimating over $840 just for that repair, and my 45,000 mile maintenance is due as well (another $300-$400). Ouch! Guess there is […]
Tagged auto repair, PriusI have been quietly searching for a low power, quiet, affordable dual core x86-64 processor/motherboard combination that supports Virtualization Technology so I can load Xen and Linux instances for some home servers. Intel’s new Atom 330 comes very, very close; but lacks the Virtualization support and only comes with the hot and power-hungry 945GC graphics […]
Tagged Computers, Linux, XenMy company has me scrubbing data off a few years old SuperMicro server with 4 Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors, 4GB of memory (2 sticks of 2GB DDR333 and 6 open slots), 8 Ultra320 bays with hot pluggable sleds, and 7 Seagate Cheetah ST373307LC drives at 10,000rpm with 68.36GB each (the 8th drive failed), Adaptec 2010S […]
I have no idea how this slipped under the radar, but the Mac OS X Terminal.app, which is probably my most heavily used application, can be used in tabbed mode now! Many friends and co-workers switched to iterm or other terminal programs for this feature prior to Leopard (10.5) because the included Terminal.app only supported […]
Tagged leopard, mac os x, terminal.appRight now the most riveting television we are watching is Heroes, it is not nearly as good as season one was; but it is still far better than most television. This season has been particularly rough on some fans as many heroes turned into villains rather easily. I guess they want to show that power […]
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