To anticipate and prevent
Because it’s illegal. I just thought I’d throw that out there for those that were confused or misdirected… Before I had even taken my ham license test, I was given an old Icom radio to muck about with. As it turned out I found a fairly busy repeater in the East Bay (K6POU) that was…
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Since I’m an avid 360 gamer it might come as a surprise to some, but I’ve never bothered to install a game to my Xbox 360 hard drive previously. Frankly I’m running an old (basically launch edition) console with a 10 GB hard drive, I don’t really have that much space for game installs. I…
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Snowulf recently migrated servers and on the new one I didn’t set up postfix. After all, I don’t want it to accept any mail and since I have no need to relay mail, why would I need an MTA? Well other than to get around New York City, it turns out that sendmail is part…
Everyone loves the Ides of March. This year it just so happens that it falls directly after our daylight savings time change. It is my belief that the warning: “Beware the Ides of March” has a new meaning. It means “Did you remember to change your clock or are you going to be late for…
For some reason, in Ubuntu, the Apache default configs seem to include a plethora of calls for ‘NameVirtualHost :80′. It seems that the very second you install Apache, it starts complaining about _’NameVirtualHost :80 has no VirtualHosts’_. While this is just a warning and can be safely ignored, it is a brand new box and…
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Let’s take a quick look back at TV in the mid 90s. When a show started for the season, you were safe in assuming that the show would be 24 to 26 episodes in length and that it would be on essentially contiguously. Sure, nothing was on TV during the week of Thanksgiving or Christmas,…