To anticipate and prevent
The sushi bar, with ever present TV. Recently I found myself up on the north side of Pleasant Hill. After running my errands I remembered seeing something about a possible Asian market and some sushi in the area. As luck would have it, it was dinner time, so investigation ensued. What I found was Damo…
Being a “fan” (short for fanatic and sometimes also called aficionado or supporter) of your favorite product or company isn’t a concept unique to technology (computers, software, video games, etc). Just take a look at sports (Raiders or 49ers?), bands (U2 or Linkin Park?), cameras (Nikon or Canon?), automobiles (domestic or import?) or even ice…
One of the hardest things about switching the blog to 5 days a week has been to get ahead. Previously when we were on the 3 day a week plan, we had points in which we had posts prepped for nearly a month in advance. For the last few weeks we’ve had almost no advance…
Read More “Getting Ahead, Staying Ahead and Looking Ahead” »
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…
Read More “Ham’ing it up: Why you don’t get on the air before you license” »
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…
Read More “How To install an Xbox 360 Game onto your Harddrive” »
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…