If you’re seeing this post, my blog is now on a new server — a virtualized server of my own, in fact. In spite of a server switch and a Wordpress upgrade, I think I’ve been able to bring everything over correctly. Let me know if not…
Due to the way I migrated (servers and Wordpress [...]
It is pure coincidence that I decided to write a post about Unix training on the anniversary of a post about Being a geek. It makes a nice bookend, though, since I'm going to be doing this training for work, and I wrote the previous post just before I started my current job. I work at [...]
One of the disadvantages of being a Debian AMD64 early-adopter is that there is no real 64-bit Flash plugin. To be clear, there's no 64-bit Flash plugin for any platform, so there's no special discrimination against Linux. Nevertheless, it is an annoyance. I didn't care much about it until quite recently, but I'm rather keen [...]
The saga of Atalanta continues. (That is the name of my new machine.) Debian Etch was duly downloaded and installed. (The installer froze once, while erasing data on one partition, but succeeded on the second try.) Unfortunately, the intermittent kernel panics continued. This meant that the problem wasn't software; it was hardware. The freezing seemed to [...]
Recently I decided to try out Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), since it's Debian-based but with a faster release cycle. I ordered a couple of CDs, and they arrived in due course. My new computer hardware also arrived today, and I put it together without too much trouble. Then I popped in the Kubuntu disk and started installation, [...]
Saturday evening I bought myself a new computer. Well, technically I just bought the parts; they'll arrive tomorrow or Thursday. It isn't really a computer until I put them all together. My current machine is a Dell laptop I bought in March of 2002. Her name is Delilah, and she has been a good machine [...]
Today I wrote a shell script for work. (No, I'm not at work today, but I wanted to solicit Jeff's help.) The script uses seven good traditional Unix utilities: cat, comm, cut, grep, sed, sort, and tail; it contains 20 lines of real code (excluding blank lines and comments). I am quite proud of it; [...]
Heads up, geekery follows. This probably won't be my most fascinating entry ever, but at least I'm not complaining about being sick. (I've been actively sick since last Friday and sort of pending-sick since the weekend before that. I'm ready for this to be over already.) A few days ago I upgraded to version 6.9 X.org, [...]
Dorothea's post today about creative source-code commenting made me think of this. Dorothea, you are in good company.
Since I installed Opera a few days ago, I've been exploring it and especially comparing it with Firefox. Here's my tally of pros and cons: