To anticipate and prevent
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,…
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…
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 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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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…
So a while back you may remember that I posted about switching to Ubuntu, and a second post later about running Warcraft under Linux. Up until yesterday I was running WoW using Cedega 6, and its been working “good enough”. Occasionally I’ve had problems with WoW not launching, crashing on launch, or launching wrong (no…