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Peanuts, the Anime version

Peppermint Patty never looked so good…

2007 12 22 geek
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The Irony about trying to read an article on how M$ runs their website is…

As of Dec 15, 2007 22:58 JST the blog link http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/archive/2007/12/13/microsoft-com-what-s-the-story.aspx is so completely hosed (Thanks Slashdot) that I have to use a Google cached version to read about it. Although in general, it’s merely a listing of stats without too much details although it’s more details than I’ve ever heard. I do give kudos […]

2007 12 15 stupid
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Joy

Quite amusing

2007 12 02 humor Comments Off on Joy

Latest rev of Macbooks and keyboard conking out after sleep

So I’ve been slowly re-initiating myself into the Church of Mac with a new Macbook however not all is well in Mac-land… It seems the Macbook can have an unresponsive keyboard if you sleep it and wake it up (Also here). Needless to say I find this bug extremely irritating and it really hurts the […]

2007 12 02 gripe
mac
osx
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Some long term thoughts on using a Kohjinsha SA1F00V

Awhile back I bought a Kohjinsha SA1F00V to test it out as a lightweight Tablet PC. After a few months of usage, I can say that I’ve not been that impressed with the device but neither have I been so frustrated with the device that I felt the need to toss the thing out the […]

2007 11 30 fixes
geek
gripe
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Tools support the ideas

Quick thought on IT stuff… I’m a firm believer that the idea is only as important as a working tool that implements it. Ever try using an idea that had no implementation? It’s a lot of fun writing it yourself…

2007 11 29 programming
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Campus Bandwidth Management Techniques Chart

This is a nice chart explaining the choices a network admin has for dealing with shaping bandwidth in a large campus.

2007 11 14 tech Comments Off on Campus Bandwidth Management Techniques Chart

Design Patterns in Ruby Sneak Preview Review

I’ve been slowly reading the Design Patterns in Ruby: Rough Cuts on Safari and have been finding it a pretty good read so far. I have to admit I’ve slept through the original Gang of Four Design Patterns book since it looked so excruciatingly boring and I wasn’t really convinced I needed such patterns for […]

2007 11 14 programming
ruby
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Voice Chat for Second Life Linux client still not working

This past Saturday I tried checking out the Second Life version of the November TLUG Meeting due to some previous obligations barring me from attending in person. So I went through the rigmarole of installing Second Life on my Linux machine at home and getting it configured to work properly with these things called SLurls […]

2007 11 14 gripe
linux
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The Lively Kernel… or Morphic in a Web Browser

The main site says this about the Lively Kernel project The main goal of the Lively Kernel is to bring the same kind of simplicity, generality and flexibility to web programming that we have known in desktop programming for thirty years, but without the installation and upgrade hassles than conventional desktop applications have. Basically it […]

2007 11 14 geek
programming
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Fix the ‘missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!’ for portupgrade

I ran into this exact problem when trying to upgrade a bunch of ports lying around on my FreeBSD system. Luckily Well-Rounded documents the fix for this. You’ll have to upgrade portupgrade manually to rebuild its database with an updated version.

2007 11 09 fixes
gripe
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A moment of silence for Prof Jun-ichiro Hagino

I ran across the news on the passing of Professor Jun-ichiro Hagino aka ‘Itojun’. Although I never knew ‘Itojun’ personally I was always impressed by someone who was able to hold commit rights to the main 3 families of the *BSD trees and make a real difference in trying to push out the adoption of […]

2007 11 03 japan
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Book Review: Practical Ruby for System Administrators

One of the things I do with Ruby is to use it to help handle some of my tasks when I am wearing my sys admin hat. I can’t say I’m a Ruby expert by any means but when it comes to writing code, I always get the shivers looking at Perl which is a […]

2007 10 22 gripe
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Where have you been… again??

Hi folks, it’s been awhile since I’ve updated this blog. This is my attempt to try to bring back to my life my little corner of the blog universe back alive. So what have I been doing? Well this and that. I’ll leave it at that for now and promptly try to start blogging more […]

2007 10 22 stupid Comments Off on Where have you been… again??

Linux and the MSI-7265, the final straw

I’ve written before before on my battles with Linux and Core 2 Duos. After waiting a long time for Feisty to get closer to a release state I loaded up Feisty (after some initial install pains. The alternate install CD recognizes enough to install but the desktop version doesn’t and requires a USB CD-ROM or […]

2007 04 07 fixes
gripe
linux
stupid
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