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Revolutionary Gun Engine?

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Here's a link to an article about the gun engine.  Sounds like a radical new design that has a revolutionary potential. Time will tell, though; but only regarding the success, not the usefulness or superior design questions. I imagine this is likely to get crushed if it ...

Putting together a generic framework for building systems

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

"Framework" may be too generic a term, but that will become more clear as I develop this idea a bit further. I'll start making posts as the bits and pieces float through my head (that could be once a year at the rate I post, and the rate at ...

Backup on XP using NTBackup

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

NTBackup was created as a trimmed down version of Backup Exec. It even saves in a format that the latest versions of Backup Exec can read (HINT! If you are an administrator, you can use this -> how a out system state backups all centrally located. No need ...

Nice note-taking medium

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

My last post got me thinking. I blog the same way I write documentation for systems I build. I assume the reader knows nothing (a close mark when writing to myself) and I tend to get good results because the doc includes more bits that would normally be ...

Firefox extension: Google Suggest

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

My own recommendation, and I couldn't find it on addons.mozilla.com Turns out there's a good reason. Google suggest extension is on google at google suggest. Makes sense, no? Actually, why google wouldn't list their Firefox extension with the Firefox site is beyond me. Whatever. I'll ...

Firefox extensions, revisited

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Here are my current Firefox extensions. Some have been removed, like fasterfox and greasemonkey (good concept, no use for me) Some have been added, like IETab and Google Completion. Get'em at addons.mozilla.org

Issue using Samba under Ubuntu Linux

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

I struggled for a while getting Windows style SMB shares working. Turns out you need to enable the user in Ubuntu, which can be done using "sudo smbpasswd -L -e username." Then the magic happened and using shares was as easy as it was supposed to be. ...

Got Flock

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

So far, Flock .5pre appears pretty nice. Just about 20 minutes of use, but already interesting. This post is created using the "blog" button. My del.icio.us account was setup as my favorites, and sync'd in seconds. I need to see if I can a button added in the toolbar for ...

D-Link wireless devices suck?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I tried and tried to move from Windows on an "always on" box. It's the only thing I used to keep up all of the time. Used to, because I can't get it to work. I tried moving from Windows to Linux ( Ubuntu) and found ...

Ubuntu 5.10 Linux Distribution

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

I have installed on an old laptop and a VM now. So far, I have had an issue installing a D-Link DWL650 wireless card (no surprise, there - Thanks D-Link! You suck toasted golfballs.) and getting tor installed. The fix for Tor was adding "universe" to /etc/apt/sources.list ...