To anticipate and prevent
Cruised over to CNET News and found this fun article over dead pixels. The reason why I find this fun, is that I too have recenetly run into this problem. I’ve never had a screen with a bad pixel until now. In fact its on my Averatec. Before the screen died a misserable death and…
I ran across this bit about building a RAID that I thought was very intresting. Its not all that uncommon now adays though. In the recent past I built myself a 400$ machine that was supposed to be the house server (turned out latter the RAM was bad, killed the machine a good bit, etc…
I saw this article linked to from slashdot. It brings a tear to the eye to think of what a big company like SBC might do, throw it all away. I’ll admit that I don’t really care much about the archive now, as most people dont. But think of our future generations. One day no…
Apparently passwords are no longer in style. One of our loving friends at Micro$oft posted this blog entry. To summarize, he says “use pass phrases”. Apparently Windoze 2k/XP/2k3 all support 127 character ‘passwords’. So instead of one pseudo-random password that’s only 8-10 characters you should have a 30 character pass phrase, because after about 14…
So I wanted a way to quickly add links to my homepage(/website). Its 3 easy steps 1 — “links.html” — This file either needs to be chmod 777 or chown www-data (or what ever you apache user is). 2 — Bookmark Java. I created a new bookmark in firefox with the following as location: (as…
For a media player I use iTunes, very simply because I a have an iPod (20gig). I currently have it in “Party Shuffle” mode, set to play higher rated songs more often. This is fine and dandy, but while I’ve been listening to my music for the last few hours, I have heard serveral songs…