CentOS
I switched to CentOS at work to match my co-worker. CentOS uses the Enterprise Red Hat distro for its base. I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now and I have to say, going back to a rpm… Read More »CentOS
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Pearl Harbor Day
In case you don’t know your American History, today is 7 December 2005. For the post war set – Pearl Harbor was the political event that got America into WWII. I’ve been to the memorial in Hawaii and I have… Read More »Pearl Harbor Day
Unix Philosphy
Sometimes I’m reminded of a particular book or website and I feel that every programmer should know about it. This excerpt from Eric S. Raymond’s “The Art of Unix Programming” should be mandatory reading for all programmers. If you haven’t… Read More »Unix Philosphy
Setting Up SuSE 10 for Mono
This is a good screen shot driven article for setting up Mono on SuSE 10. I really don’t care for SuSE, I use Ubuntu. But for the intrepid, this is a good way to start. This article was written for… Read More »Setting Up SuSE 10 for Mono
Space Wall Papers
Spotted this site on Shoutwire.com the Digg.com copycat for non-techies. It’s called Spacewallpapers.net and it appears to be a mix bag of NASA astronomy pictures and Sci-Fi inspired digital art. All images are suitable for large desk top images. Note… Read More »Space Wall Papers
The Joy of Tech
If you have not seen this comic strip – The Joy of Tech, check it out. I’m not a Mac fanboy, but they dog on everyone, so they’re cool. Michael Moore’s Christmas
Death Star discovered near Saturn!
Got this shot from BAD. It’s Saturn’s Moon Mimas, which as it turns out, is not actually round.
I missed my Ham Radio today!
I had to switch cars today and take the kids to school. I missed out on listening to and checking in to the morning commute net on the local Ham repeater. I never realized how much I was hooked on… Read More »I missed my Ham Radio today!
Sentinel
One of our servers at work fell victim to several run-away processes, that’s putting it lightly, and we found that we had to monitor it constantly to see when another rogue process would bog it down. In order to do… Read More »Sentinel
Thinking of an Animal, Part 2
I’ve been continuing my studies of Perl and have been adding to the script, ThinkingOfAnimals.pl. I’ve added some modules that extrapolate out some functionality. IO_LIB.pm contains methods for writing to and reading from a file, and LOGIT.pm which makes a… Read More »Thinking of an Animal, Part 2