Luckily the install is very painless and mostly automated (easier than the last windows install I did). Despite all the critiques of linux installs (and yes, it did cross my mind that a new Mac would be nice), I find myself hunting for drivers and driver CDs (especially for motherboard subsystems) than I have to […]
This is a great read on the history and role of FastCGI given the rise and popularity of “CGI Frameworks”, as the author calls them, like Rails, Django, and Zope. One of those rare entries where I learn a lot from each paragraph. Why does this matter? Because these are large frameworks written in interpreted
Via my dad, comes this link to a PC World article asking “Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?”. The expert in the article suggests that for long term storage, use magentic tape to store files you want preserved for decades. For your average home user, burning copies to CD’s I think is still
It’s a gray day here in Virginia, so this might cheer some of us up: Serenity Might Fly Again? …the movie’s sales on DVD, which came out on Dec. 20, are running neck-and-neck with the hit comedy Wedding Crashers, which bodes well for a possible Serenity sequel.
I was telling Sandy on our way back from lunch today that what I was hoping TiVo would announce an HDTV TiVo soon, and tonight I see that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas they announced HD TiVo Series 3 The tuner thing should be qualified though, because it will actually have 6(!) tuners.
According to the US Soccer site, the private sale for tickets to the National Team’s matches at this year’s World Cup Finals in Germany ends today. Not sure when exactly they’ll inform the lucky folks who get tickets.
I’m a bit sad to hear that Michael Vale, the Dunkin’ Donuts baker from the 80s passed away today. His commercials were certainly memorable, enough that Staci still will occasionally try wake me up by saying “It’s time to make the doughnuts!”. Kudos, also to CNN for their solemn and classy headline: Death of a
Ok, its stuff like this that’s a real knock against linux being ready for the desktop. Since I’ve upgraded gnome recently, automounting of usb devices has stopped working. This is annoying, although livable. Today I found a fix, if you’re running debian with gnome and gnome-volume-manager still doesn’t display usb drives on your desktop when
Performancing has released what looks to be a cool Firefox extension that makes it easy to update your blog using the browser and a client-side WYSIWYG editor. If you’ve got a wordpress, movabletype, or blogger blog, it’s worth checking out. Now, I’ve got to implement an xml-rpc service so that I can use this.