To anticipate and prevent
Went to the gun show at the Reno/Sparks convention center today. It wasn’t terribly large (the “good” show is comming up in two weeks — so I am told), but it was intresting. I went with my boss and the CEO/Owner of our company (also refered to as “the boss”) and one other co-worker. Going…
I’m sure anyone stopping by here has already read that IE7 Beta 1 & Windows Vista Beta 1 have been released to MSDN. Nifty for me, I have an MSDN subscription so I’ve downloaded both. Vista is a 2.4gig download (and obviously is an ISO for a bootable DVD). I’m currently installing vista on an…
Windows Vista I ended up installing Windows Vista on a different machine than I claimed previously. The machine its installed on is yet another server (P4 2.4GHZ, 1GB RAM, Onboard GPU, Gigabit NIC & 40GB Harddrive). First I’ll say I like the installer for the most part. Its a beta still, but it is graphical,…
So I finally got apache running on one of our production servers for internal backup usage. I’ve found that it there is almost nothing GNU/GPL out there that does compression on the fly. So on the server side is apache with mod_deflate on a “random” port w/ a virtual directory of the database backups I…
I have a box in my “testing network” at the office that is running debian testing (is that still considered sarge? or sid? dunno). It was running perfectly fine (w/ X windows) until recently. I was asked to retrive some data off a harddrive (ntfs) so I shoved it in this box — and thats…
So after I talked to my boss Friday, he suggested that I buy a few books (By suggested I mean he said “You _need_ to buy these two books” and proceeded to watch other my shoulder as I surfed the site to buy them. Though — My boss knows what he’s talking about. He’s got…