Bravo, Sun. Bra. VO.
As you'll note, there was very little blog output 'round these parts two days ago (read: I didn't post a single durn thing). This was entirely due to a very, very long 16 hour day which featured a large-scale LAN outage. The root cause was a bit of a heat problem we had about [...]
Sites Of Reference For Your F.I.T. Needs
Many of my generation participate in F.I.T. (Family I.T.) activities on a regular basis, including, but not limited to, incidents wherein family members (and family members' computers) must be rigorously brought to heel. Of particular use in these situations are the following very helpful websites:
Snopes: Useful for debunking outrageous claims, oftentime made in the [...]
On Psystar, Apple And Conspiracy Theories
I was listening to this week's TWiT on my commute in this morning when one of the TWiTs mentioned that they were taking a pass on the Psystar Open Computer (essentially a gray box hacked to run OS X Leopard) because the threat of an Apple lawsuit putting Psystar out of business is simply too [...]
Tweet Fulfillment
There are days that I'm amazed by the Internet, and then there are days that it lives downup to my expectations. Take, for instance, a recent Tweet of mine in which I pondered
I was quickly answered by Stephane, who pointed out the wonderfully-implemented and -documented iPod Shuffle RAID0 array.
A few days thereafter, [...]
Solaris Admins, You WantNeed PCA
No, I'm not talking about the Presbyterian Church in America, I'm talking about Patch Check Advanced.
PCA is the Solaris analog to Fedora's YUM[1], Debian's APT[2], or even FreeBSD's Ports[3]. It basically allows you to completely skirt Sun's bloated, kludgy GUI-based software update checker and list, download and even install all pending patches available [...]
…The Heck Is WRONG With Spammers These Days?
Is a cruddy-looking lawn really all that common of an occurrence these days? I mean, honestly, I've gotten more of these than "manhood enhancement" solicitations in my Yahoo! spam filter over the last few months:
The first few times I got 'em, I didn't even open them. Figured "Grow Your Lawn Faster And Thicker" [...]
