opinion-and-editorial
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Appliance cloning saga continues
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…
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The invisibility cloak is coming
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…
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Wolfram vs Google – comments re: cnet video
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.…
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Follow my own train of thought while I improve on a new website
As I work on websites, I keep a number of tasks in different medium and various tracker tools. Paper and post-it notes for example, email, RTM, mind42, my calendar, and a few others make up my toolbox when it comes to getting stuff done. Most of the tools do a good job but I follow…
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How do you get those spiffy looking icon ads on your website’s sidebar?
Have you seen those around? A lot of websites have them, they’re neat little square icons, ranging 100px to 300px square? They’re a nice unobtrusive way of advertising a website or a product. I don’t mind them at all and I have been wanting to add them to some of my websites for some time.…
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What is a necropolis?
I am happy with this for now… I think I heard of this before but I was never sure what it really meant. the word came up again in a recent Discovery Channel TV Show, about Ancient Greece. The Greek word meaning; city of the dead normally describes large and important burial areas that were…
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Google Video
I was recently tasked with making sure videos work properly on our website. After some tweaking and debugging, I found that the videos work great. We’re using a plugin to let us use a very simple notation to add a video. The plugin is by Joshua Eldridge and it uses Jeron Wijering’s FLV Media Player.…
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PXE Network Boot Server update
I’m very excited about the progress on my network boot server. I got it working yesterday, and it is pretty sweet so far. I’ve had tons of help from a few people and a number of online resources. Steve K. and his knowledge of Unix, TCP, and Linux’ obscure intricacies combined with years of experience…
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Covers of old songs
John Mayer has a couple of good covers I like and just discovered recently, I found them through Pandora. I think its good to remake old songs, they connect with the current generation and preserve our culture. Who dares say Americans have no culture? This IS our culture, our music, our traditions, and its worth…