Dear Lazyweb-
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with an internal 100GB SATA drive and a modular 200GB SATA drive in the modular bay. Thus, I have 300GB of SATA glory at my disposal. I have been debating putting these together under a RAID array, possibly level 0 (I’m not that concerned about redundancy. [...]
Just an FYI- I’m testing out a new IRC nickname- eightyeight. I play the piano, of which I’ve done since a kid, and a number of friends through high school called me “eightyeight keys” or “eightyeight” for short. It stuck, and as such, I ended up getting a tattoo on my right shoulder [...]
WARNING: IF YOU FOLLOW THE CODE IN THIS POST, YOU WILL DESTROY THE DATA ON YOUR DISK.
Being a Linux instructor for Guru Labs, I get to travel the United States, and on occasion, other countries. When on the road, usually I’m teaching Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but do sometimes teach Fedora Linux, SUSE Enterprise [...]
I wanted a different ASCII art signature for my @ubuntu.com email address than I had for my personal account, so I took a couple minutes, and hacked one up together pretty quickly. It’s only 3 lines, which is appropriate for an email signature I believe. It’s not perfect, but it conveys the idea.
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I’ve moved to GnuPG version 2, mainly just out of curiosity. I have read the feature list between version 1 and 2. Apparently, version 2 supports the same algorithms, completely backwards-compatible with version 1, more modular and supports additional functionality. So, with that, my GPG key has been re-exported using version 2. [...]
I am no longer interested in your service. Apparently, I’m not the only one, with hundreds of thousands of other users also not interested in your service. Why? Because you aren’t delivering the features that I want in a cell provider. Let me explain.
Last night, my daughter, who is 9 months [...]
The comment spam filtering software used on this blog is Spam Karma. Three weeks ago, Dave, the author of the Wordpress plugin, announced that Spam Karma has now gone GPL v2. I have been using this plugin exclusively for my comment spam since this blog has been up and running.
Prior to the plugin [...]
Today, I found myself featured on the Linux Haters Blog. I’ve heard of this blog before, but didn’t give it much thought, as most of the posts coming from the author are nothing more than Microsoft fan-boy fanaticism. It’s hard to take any of the posts seriously. After reading his post regarding [...]
Since losing Windows XP Pro to a slew of viruses, malware, trojans and any other form of badware, our family has been getting along fine with Ubuntu and Mac OS X. I mentioned that my wife would have some growing pains associated with the learning curve that is Linux. However, I’ve noticed that [...]
