To anticipate and prevent
I checked my mail just a few minutes ago and found an envelope from Dublin Toyota Scion. I was a little surprised, as I wasn’t expecting anything from them. Regardless, I opened the envelope to find out they had stiffed me on the value of my trade in vehicle. Those bastards underpaid me for it!…
So last week I was spending some time at a friend’s house and I decided I wanted to surf the web securely. Not because I didn’t trust my friend’s network (I helped him set it up), I just wanted to see if I _could_. Now I’ve got a server at home that runs 24/7, and…
I know that I previously posted I couldn’t get MKV’s to run properly under Linux, but I wanted to correct myself slightly. Using VLC I could play any MKV’s. It seemed to me though that after they are a certain size (probably Mbits per second) they started to jitter as I previously described. Example: 170MB,…
I was trying to update my status on Facebook for the first time in months, and I couldn’t. At first I thought it was some glitch so I ignored it and let it be. Then it was reported to me by a friend that in the last few days, he could no longer post comments…
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If there is one single holiday that has meshed particularly well with the internet, it is April Fools day. In the last 5-10 years, April 1st has grown from mere pranks on friends to an event of epic proportions. Every year, on this fateful day, the internet goes NUTS. It is hard to go ANYWHERE…
I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server running Debian Sarge. It recently experienced the joy of a motherboard replacement (which will hopefully make the hardware faults go away). This normally isn’t a big deal, except for the fact that I use the onboard gigabit NICs. See Debian “knows” which network card is which by MAC…