To anticipate and prevent
Oh yea! I love the new firmware. Always goodies to play with. Especially the big jumps — when the actually change significant features are fun. Well the D70 has new firmware (found here ). I just finished flashing my D70 — If nothing else, I really really like the new Menu’s. Very….modern… — Where each…
So.. I got Mission Impossible today from NetFlix and started watching it. At start up it asked if I wanted Widescreen or Letterbox. Having a laptop with 16:10 — Widescreen it was. But.. It wasnt. It turns out it was 16:9 shrunk down to fit the letter box width. Yes! I want to watch a…
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth —Sherlock Holmes This stands particularly true with networking. I had an issue with our home network tonight and a rogue machine. I eliminated every option (including a stranger on our open AP) — with no avail. The rogue machine — the…
Some stupid #$$# over at Cnet decided to write a wonderfuly brilliant piece about the Two-seater plane brings gov to halt . He says If a Cessna 150 hit a large government building, the impact damage would be localized. People who weren’t near the impact site might not even notice. And he’s right. He goes…
First, before anyone says anything — Yes I use webmin on my “personal” servers (read: servers at home). It saves me time and I Dont have to remember all the proper syntax for stupid config files. Second — This module is very very very bad. I turned it on for a few hours today to…
Let me mention this one disclaimer. I’ve been a red hat fan for a long time. I’ve bought (yes paid money for linux) every version of Red Hat since 6.0 till then stopped their “desktop” product. I remeber some long drawn out battles regarding RPM’s and dependencies. But that was then, this is now. Technology…