After having my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop fail the Ubuntu 8.10 install process due to a thermal issue for a second time, I returned to Windows. Today I found Xubuntu, which claims to be lighter than Ubuntu. I was originally considering it for a netbook computer, but decided to give it a shot on the […]
Back to the LiveCurt.net project concepts again. How much do people want to know about me and how do they want to know it? My status page is fairly basic information that is just putting stuff commonly available in one easy to access place, but LiveCurt is supposed to be more, it’s more than just […]
With the resistance of network operators and hardware vendors to accept IPv6, the lack of address in the IPv4 space is becoming more of a concern. I am personally wondering how many addresses in the IPv4 space are actually being used and how many are being wasted on frivolous assignments. Take for example, network 44. […]
I am beginning to feel that the number of “server apps” that are being actively maintained is way too small. There are so many tasks I wish I could defer to my server systems without having to connect to the server system through a graphical method to do. One such task is Flickr uploads. My […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, there are things that do not get mentioned here, they are considered too “private” to share here, but yet I share them with people I know even less about than the primary target audience of this blog. I do not know a lot of people that do not […]
As of this moment there are 1006 blog posts residing on my blog engine (Moveable Type) that I have written. I have made a total of 6 cross-posted posts in my blogging history, so this brings me to my present total of 1000 unique blog posts. Over 850 of those posts belong to this blog. […]
I discovered today an additional reason why Facebook sucks. The notes function only polls my blog for new entries about once every three days, highly ineffective for my friends to keep up with me. Google polls my blog about once every 2 hours, which on some days can still be a little slow, but in […]
I don’t have a lot of use for spreadsheets anymore. Most things I do I keep in a MySQL database and have accessible from GITI or some other insane little utility, but for some reason I am maintaining my transfer equivalency matrix in a standard Excel spreadsheet (where maintaining is updating when I remember). So […]
Windows XP SP3 Base Install Install forgotten network card driver Join domain Install Dell QuickSet Install FireFox Del.icio.us Plugin Download Helper Flash Install Thunderbird Accounts (about 7 of them) Install Office 2003 (not using 2007 on laptop yet) Install Office Service Pack 3 Install Office 2007 converter pack Install Winamp Install Windows themes Install Adobe […]
I just finished creating a slipstream (with unattend) Windows XP with SP3 CD. If it works it will be pretty cool. Ubuntu was slowly driving me bonkers and I sort of missed Windows XP, but knew my XP install on the other partition was aging quite a bit, and I really did not want to […]