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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 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 [...]

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.

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

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.

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.

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 [...]

I listen to a bunch of podcasts. They’re pretty nifty all around. Who would have thought that podcasts would take off? Some people say Apple–it is named after their, well, iPods. Most of my listening happens on iTunes as I absolutely love their library and playlist functionality, but I digress.
My favorite podcast is Buzz Out [...]

Learn to burn bootable ISO files/images on Mac OS X.

A quick walk through on what a virtual private server (VPS) is, how to choose one, and getting started in a few clicks. [...]