When Windows Cleanup Goes Bad

I fished this out of an old blog of mine. It still generates hits (believe it or not) after it’s original posting on September 10, 2006. I lost the images associated with the post, but was able to recover the body.
Last night I noticed that my C: drive (Windows 2000) was getting a little cluttered. [...]

My Garage Server and WPA

I have a Debian server sitting in my garage, and I just updated my wireless router. Once upon a time I used WEP for all my wireless security needs. Yes, it was rather simple of me, but it did its job. At the time I had FiOS and felt worldly enough to share to those [...]

Moving Day

I moved over the weekend. Moving is a lot of work! I’ll get back to posting soon. In the mean time, wish me luck.

Boot Camp Fail: Boot disk not found

I decided it would be fun to try Boot Camp for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6. No, I wasn’t trying to install Windows. I like Linux much better. But I digress.
I launched Boot Camp Assistant, repartitioned my drive, did what I felt needed to be done, had my fun, and got tired of Linux on [...]

Twitter Stumbles

Twitter is certainly popular. I can’t walk down the street without hearing a conversation about it. And if I do succeed in walking a full block without one mention of Twitter, my cell phone will almost certainly ring at least once because of some person’s tweet somewhere. I upgraded my text messaging plan to unlimited [...]

iTerm: It Just Works

Linux server administration requires shell access. It’s just that simple. Sure, you can use FTP for some things, and web-based administration (like cPanel or Plesk) works for other things; but you can’t call yourself an administrator without using a good-old-fashion command line interface.

It’s Friday. Go out.

The title says it all. It’s Friday and I’m going out to do something fun. You should do the same!

What is svn+ssh? How do I use it to securely keep track of code?

So you want to know about svn+ssh, eh? Maybe some basics will help first. I’ll try to (briefly) explain what SVN is, why you use it, and why you want to let go of your 10-foot poll when working with SVN and SSH combined.

My First Spam!

This is a note worthy day! I received my first comment SPAM! Exciting, no? Well, ok, not really. But it does mean that search engines are returning my posts. Go that.

Twitterrific: Initial Impressions

I’ve been using Twitter for a long time now. Some time during my usage, I became totally addicted. It all started while sitting at a beach-side bar in Huntington Beach, CA with a friend. We were eavesdropping on a date next to us because the beach itself wasn’t very interesting that day. When the date [...]