To anticipate and prevent
Yesterday I stopped by Digg, which I don’t do much these days since they went Spam-Point-Owe. I did catch a few interesting things, once of which was an infographic titled “Why You Shouldn’t Buy A Mac“. The author took a picture of the configuration screen for a Mac desktop and annotated the parts with what…
I needed an open source DNS solution at work recently, preferably anything but Bind, and it was suggested I use PowerDNS. I had no experience with it, but I was told it was a good product and fairly easy to setup. On top of the DNS Server itself, I need a local DNS caching agent….
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Last night I was having a bit of a philosophical debate and I thought I’d externalize it. Everyone knows that the Wikimedia Foundation is a big proponent of “free software”, and similarly, “free access”. By that I mean audio and video is uploaded in formats like Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora rather than patented formats…
When I was younger, Best Buy was THE place I could and would go for new releases. Apparently, this changed at some point, though I don’t know when; I must have missed the memo. Recently, I wanted to get Survival of the Dead on Blu-Ray (yes, I am a Zombiphile, why do you think we…
A long time ago (2003) Final Fantasy XI came out. When it did, I bought it and played it for a good while. I really enjoyed playing the game, and the vistas were quite beautiful (for as low quality as the graphics were). One of the best things about the game was the fact that…
Hopefully, you are enjoying a wonderful day off, just like us! In other news, SurvivingTheWorld.net points out that the Living Dead are already among us (for certain values of “among” limited mostly to India).