To anticipate and prevent
Recently, I decided to challenge myself and actually use OSX (for a daily machine) and an iPad (because it was there). Part of this was to increase my familiarity with the devices and partially because my workplace runs basically all Mac. I was going to have to get used to them sooner or later, and…
The title basically sums it all up. I made the mistake of setting up a new install of Request Tracker (RT), against a server running SpeedyCGI. I’ll be honest, it’s been so long since I’ve run any perl apps, that I had no idea what interface to pick. Anyways, on top of the RT/SpeedyCGI I…
Last Thursday I received an email from one of AMD’s PR firms, inviting me to an event at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco. It was short notice (as the event was on Monday), but it was only a block from the office, so I figured what the heck. I know they have my…
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…