I don’t remember where I got the original link, but this picture really got me interested in HDR Photography:
Not that I’m a photographer, or have a tripod, or anything really other than a point and shoot camera, but it really intrigued me. That photo, and many others (Flickr HDR pool) show the stunning results achieved […]
On Saturday, I learned through the bike shop that my friend Gene’s wife, Marcy, had suffered a serious stroke. The next day, a Slashdot article on communicating with hospitalized people was put on their main page, and I sent it to Tim who had been visiting Marcy and their family.
Through the subsequent comments/links to […]
So, I decided to recently take a look at the box that runs my email, in addition to running DNS and some web for me. It’s not a very beefy box by any means, but it’s been stable as hell for a long time. By a long time, I mean ~9 years - it’s a […]
Today started with me dropping ~$2k on a new macbook and an airport express.
I then drove out to Metairie for tuxedo fixin’s for Friday, and my car won’t start. Go figure.
Towing it tomorrow.
Other than that, Happy Pi Day!
Since the storm and the later apartment move, I’ve been slowly paring down and simplifying my home network.
So long, rack. Hope you find a good home, HP ProCurve 400m, Cobalt boxes, and various multi-U rack cases.
Over the past few days, I have taken another step. For a long time now, I’ve been running an AMD […]
I work for a Marine Insurance Underwriting company. I don’t really feel like going into what our role is, but just know we deal with insurance for boats.
Part of the Patriot Act states that when a policy is being created or is up for renewal, we must check the insured’s name against the OFAC (Office […]
Just what I need, lemme tell ya. I have relied on my laptop so much over the past months, between being stuck in Texas, N.C., or couch surfing here in NOLA.
Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my living room (Molly’s, at the end of the bar), getting some work done, and the guy next to […]
This title is used as a sample from Deltron 3030’s track, Virus (video). I don’t usually cite the refences for my titles, but I felt this was extra appropriate.
We (as people in general, but sysadmins specifically) try to prepare for disasters. In the even that one does occur, hopefully we take something from our experiences […]
I’m still here at work.
I would like to take this moment to praise Spiralcom Communications for two reasons:
1) WinTAR-SCSI - A beautiful piece of software that makes it stupid easy to restore GNU tars from a tape on a Win32 box.
2) Their tech support. I apparently misplaced my serial number. Figuring it would be a […]
So, in the process of adding a new ~72GB SCSI Drive to my main server here at work, the PERC 4/Di Controller decided to re-initialize my existing array.
What does this mean?
1) All work done today is gone.
2) My evening is gone, as I’ll be sitting here in my office working all night, re-installing Gentoo, […]