I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run. I’d love to see a [...]
Category Archives: technical
backblaze storage pods
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Yet another link I found off Hacker News, the Backblaze storage pod – 67 Terabytes of storage in a rack-mountable unit for <$8k. I’d love one or two or 80 of these in my spare bedroom
opennms on serverfault.com
Friday, August 14, 2009
While I don’t currently use OpenNMS, I do lurk on the mailing lists to learn about it While on serverfault today, I thought about checking to see what OpenNMS questions there may be, and found several. None I’m qualified to answer, but the results are here: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/opennms. For posts that merely have OpenNMS mentioned: http://serverfault.com/search?q=opennms.
fit-pc slim linux
Friday, July 24, 2009
I just heard about the fit-PC Slim Linux recently. It’s a 500Mhz, 512M, 60G, 8W, 14oz computer about the size of a set of car keys. Looks like it’s be a near-ideal answer for a really light-weight web server for a home.
upgrading ubuntu editions
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
I’m getting ready to upgrade my desktop tower because whatever version of Ubuntu it’s running (I think 7.04) is too old. Are there any concerns or cautions I need to worry about? It’s the x86-64 release. My data’s already split onto other drives
now this looks pretty cool
Monday, September 29, 2008
I’m watching some show on the Science Channel while working from home today, and just saw a segment on the Venture One.\ It’s a three-wheeled, enclosed, hybrid car – but it’s classified as a motorcycle for licensing.If it actually does show up on schedule in 2010, I think I want one. Wiki link.
digital radio recording
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Figures, what I thought was a new idea isn’t. I love my DVR, but would likewise love a Digital Radio Recorder so I could pause and rewind ‘live’ radio. With a bit of Googling, I found the Shark (see here). The only improvement I could see would be to get something like this into a [...]
reevu
Sunday, September 7, 2008
I was watching a recorded edition of Beyond Tomorrow (from Science Channel) and saw an awesome-looking motorcyle helmet, the Reevu. It has a series of polycarbonate reflectors that take light coming into the helmet from the back, reflect it over the rider’s head, and display it on a small mirror just above the visor in [...]
mysql auto-changes data types
Saturday, June 14, 2008
I was making a change to a small table today: adding a field that wanted to be a varchar. The other fields that were of type char all magically changed to varchar when I was done with the alter statement that added one field. I don’t know if that’s supposed to happen, but it was [...]
god bless the lugs
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
I’m a member of TriLUG – the Triangle Linux User Group. Mostly I’m on the mailing lists as a lurker, sometimes as a contributor. But this week I asked a couple questions which the friendly community jumped-on to assist me with. Thanks guys!
