Server Upgrade Fun
My Ubuntu server that powers this blog hasn’t been upgraded for a while. The uptime was 450+ days and the Message of the Day was telling me I needed to reboot for some thing or another. So I decided to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Computers
VI Search and Replace Snippit
Since I haven’t programmed for a while, my formatting is rusty. I realized that I was inconsistant in how I was using spaces around my parenthesis in my code. The “correct” formatting is to have a space after the opening … Continue reading
Server hard drive crash, upgrades and more such fun…
The Fun Begins So on Thursday 12/30/2011 I was in the basement and I heard a pretty loud noise coming from the server rack. I thought I was just losing another fan, so I didn’t pay it much attention. Then … Continue reading
iomega NAS and CrashPlan Backups
I bought a CrashPlan (a local company) subscription a little while ago and managed to back up my data by mounting my old FreeNAS shares on my Windows 2003 server, but that is not supported by CrashPlan and it didn’t … Continue reading
iomega StorCenter ix2-200 First Impressions
My iomega NAS arrived at work yesterday and I started using it last night. Here are some first impressions. Storage Capacity: They sell it as a 2TB unit. But it’s not really. It’s two 1TB drives in a RAID 1 … Continue reading
I have a storage dilemma
So I have this FreeNAS server that I built a while ago. I’ve been pretty happy with it but recently it lunched it’s OS drive. I farted around with it, tried to replace the OS drive with a CF card, … Continue reading
Thoughts on why I think Android Phones are so cool
When I was growing up I read a lot of Science Fiction. I still do actually. Lots of things that I read about have come to pass. Science Fiction has been an amazing predictor of new technologies and gadgets. For … Continue reading
Perl on my Droid!
Sitting at lunch today I was musing about how cool it would be to be able to program on my phone in Perl. I have one interpreter on the phone already – Frink – and while it’s and amazing tool … Continue reading
My Droid does apps
Here is the current list of apps I have on my Droid and my comments about them – It’s a long list… Roughly grouped by category. Rated 1 – 5 smilely faces. There are no zero ratings since I took … Continue reading
Geeking Out
I just created an xls spreadsheet in OpenOffice on my Ubuntu laptop, put it in my Dropbox folder, installed Documents To Go on my Droid, and edited the spreadsheet there! Now I’m blogging about it using the web browser on … Continue reading