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So, Ubuntu Gutsy came out a few days ago, and I’ve got a new server that I’m going to be using at home. This server is actually an old desktop machine – used to be Christine’s Windows XP box (before…
So, I found an article today on the new core web fonts that Microsoft is bundling with Windows Vista. The full write up is here, but anyone who knows me and my family much will recognize that Microsoft just stole…
I like to pretend that I know a little something about woodworking, and occasionally even try to build something that won’t be condemned by the urban housing authority. Since it is nearing Halloween and all, I thought it was amusing…
Last week there was a story on slashdot pointing to www.sysadminoftheyear.com, a site where folks can go to nominate their IT staff for Sysadmin of the Year. They were offering free T-Shirts to the first 2500 nominations, so I asked…
So, a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to drive from St. Louis to Salt Lake in a minivan. We did the trip in a little less than 19 or so hours, which means that we pretty well obeyed…
I love wget. I’ve used it in the past to quickly snag the contents of entire web directories, and tonight I learned a few more tricks it can do. Namely, it can recurse down as many levels deep from the…
So, I recently discovered the wonderful backup tool called BackupPC (Thanks, Hans!) and have set it up to backup all the workstations at my office to a central server with a large storage capacity. However, I’ve only set it to…
So, I’ve been hacking on a new RoR application for work for the last week or so, and it’s time to get a deployment environment set up so I can deploy as rapidly as I can develop. I’ve been reading…
So, I was just getting settled in for my workday (aka getting my daily fix of /.) and I ran across a link to a neat article about Mel the Programmer. Well written and entertaining, this article adds some neat…
Ok, so we finally loaded up all our stuff into the biggest U-Haul money can rent, and headed north to the sunny climes of Boise, ID. While the drive for me was mostly uneventful (except for when the car hauler…
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