opinion-and-editorial
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Adding a driver to kickstart AND driverdisk
The previous post explained that I was able to add the Realtek driver to the PXE boot Kickstart environment. However the driver would not be available or activated on the new machine for some reason. My guess is that I needed to add the driver not just to the Kickstart environment but also as a…
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All in One Gestures Addon breaks spell checker
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…
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Using e.g. vs i.e.
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…
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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.…
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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…