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O’s fans protest

So full up front discolure –  I’m not a baseball fan by any strech.  Partially for two reasons, my only memory of professional baseball when I was younger is that it would throw a giant monkey wrench into my afternoon TV watching habits.  Also, I was a terrible player during my little league career, mostly

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New Server!

Last week, I moved this blog, email, and other sites including Soccer Blogs, to a newer, more powerful server. The database is mauve, which Sandy tells me is the best color for a database. You should notice its a lot peppier – about 100% peppier, than the old server which was beginning to show its

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Windows in Quechua

Blue Screen of Death is "Anqas Toqu millay" – Filthy Blue Window is the best I could do. Microsoft releases language support for Quechua, one of the native languages spoken in Bolivia. Probably to less fanfare than they expected. "We congratulate Microsoft for having facilitated the use of computers in our own languages, but we

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Server Upgrade: OS basics

Debian AMD64 Setup My Linux distribution of choice is Debian, although for the desktop I’d recommend Ubuntu. The server was first setup using the unofficial debian64 repositories. Since the amd64 architecture is now officially part of Debian, we moved to using an official repository. see Google groups. An unofficial repository contains /debian-amd64/ like so: #deb

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