Recently I had a chance to camp out with my Wife and some friends; we had a blast. We went to Kern River and it was pretty damn cool. It was a short trip, we left on Friday morning and came back Sunday night. When I was younger I would go camping all the time, [...]
All in One Gestures breaks spell checker
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For the longest time, I’ve had a problem in Firefox where I can’t use the built-in spell checker; the suggested corrected words don’t show up for me to pick from one of them. This blows! This morning I decided to end this suffering and find the problem, surely it had to be an extension. I [...]
Using e.g. vs i.e.
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Contrary to popular belief, e.g. and i.e. aren’t interchangeable, and they mean different things. The easiest way to remember when to use i.e. vs e.g. is to listen how it would make your phrase sound if you substituted them with their true meaning. i.e. stands for id est from latin, which really means “in other [...]
Appliance cloning saga continues
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We finally have laid down the roadmap to appliance building Nirvana. We met yesterday and last week with our manufacturers to discuss the technicalities of the process and the logistics to wrap it all up. We now have the following in place: Network Boot system that allows us to: Boot into our Kickstart environment. Boot [...]
Enterprise Backup Project
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Backup, backup, backup. The mantra of a good Systems Administrator. There is something really scary that will keep you up at night when you are in charge of an enterprise network and you aren’t sure about your recovery strategy. One of the clients I work with is in a tight budget so naturally backup, to [...]
The invisibility cloak is coming
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It seems that we are closer and closer to getting the invisible cloak. Well, probably not in my lifetime but maybe this century. The whole invisibility cloak thing is very simple in theory, but I assume it is nearly impossible to actually engineer. You have to get a surface that will catch all incoming light [...]
Wolfram vs Google – comments re: cnet video
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I saw a video today in cnet tv. It was a comparison of the up and coming engine Wolfram versus Google. I do’nt think they really can compare across all functions but they do something similar. I don’t think that these two different engines can be accurately compared but they do have some overlapping functions. [...]