With the recent news of my wife and I receiving a baby (she’s due any moment now), my wife will be quitting her full-time job as a 2nd grade school teacher come June of 2008. This means a lot of changes in our lives (income adjustments, responsibilities, etc), but most importantly, it means that [...]
I’m a bit bothered by something that no one can seem to give me a clear answer on: why is the default umask in Debian/Ubuntu ‘022′?
Let’s think about this for a second. Back in the days of historical UNIX, probably for decades, the traditional file permissions of ‘read’, ‘write’ and ‘execute’ was sufficient [...]
Google has finally added IMAP support to it’s Gmail email service! All I have to say, is it’s about freaking time! Google- YOU ROCK!
Yup. You read the title correctly. Hard to believe, isn’t it? My wife and I have been waiting for over 8 years to have kids, and finally, the opportunity has presented itself. Through adoption, we will be having a baby girl here in the next week or so. She is [...]
An interesting conversation has sparked recently, and I’m curious what the community thinks. If you had the choice to work for either Novell or Sun Microsystems, who would you work for and why? I would work for Sun for a few reasons:
Novell has made a reputation for itself by laying off employees at [...]
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Today, I’m in Silicon Valley with Clint Savage, and we thought it would be great to take a small detour to Google Campus. It’s only a couple miles from [...]
I just received an email last night that I was hoping I would receive. I am now a Red Hat Certified Technician. I’m showing it with pride on my blog. This Friday, I take the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam, hoping to pass it on the first try. I’m hoping it [...]
Lately, I’ve been getting quite interested in virtual machines. Namely, Linux/UNIX on Linux. When I got my new T61 laptop, even before, I have been looking forward to virtualizing Linux operating systems. Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc. So, first thing first, find a good virtual machine to run these guests.
I had already [...]
After a short, and I mean very short, 9 months with introPLAY, I have taken a new job that gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I am now working for Guru Labs as a Linux instructor. What does this mean? It means that I will be traveling the country teaching Linux [...]
Lately, I’ve caught the IceApe bug (IceApe is a rebranded/renamed Mozilla Seamonkey), and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about it.
First, a friend of mine got me hooked. Steve Dibb, a Gentoo user (yeah, I know. ), loves it, and has been using Seamonkey ever since I’ve known him. Being a heavy [...]
