Category Archive for 'GEEK!'
Love my Gizmodo!
Posted in GEEK! on Sep 22nd, 2004
Today’s features:
The Hello Kitty Bluetooth Headset and Gravity Lamp. Clicking the Gravity Lamp link is mandatory!
Having made it 34 years being successfully X ignorant, I was pretty flipping astounded to find/download/install cygwin tonight, which lets me run X window sessions on my Windows XP box.
This means that the huge-ass monitor that’s been attached to the server ever since I switched to Fedora can now go back upstairs. I FINALLY [...]
Bonnie + Charlie
Posted in GEEK! on Aug 12th, 2004
This is getting crazy! We’ve already been deluged with 2x normal rainfall in July (11″), and now Bonnie + Charlie are supposed to bring 4-8 more inches to the area. I never thought *I’d* dread seeing 8″. The ground has been like chocolate pudding for weeks now, so if there’s any [...]
/usr/games/fortune
Posted in GEEK! on Aug 6th, 2004
After getting everyone’s email migrated from Exchange 2003 over to Squirrelmail, I was relatively proud of the work I had accomplished yesterday. Everything on the Linux box was working perfectly, but something just didn’t feel quite right. After sleeping on it, it came to me — the FORTUNE program wasn’t installed! Not [...]
Bwoke no mo!
Posted in GEEK! on Aug 5th, 2004
Today I was able to move all of the websites hosted here (and their corresponding MySQL databases) from the ‘Server that the Evil Empire made’ (Windows 2003) over to ‘the place where the grass is always greener and the birds are always chirping’ (Linux). (Actually, I very much like Windows 2003 and have no [...]
My blog is bwoke.
Posted in GEEK! on Aug 1st, 2004
So I’m digging this new WordPress theme, which is a “hot mess” for me because as sharp as it looks, it was written for Apache webservers (which I’m not running), so most of the features don’t work.
My friends Andy and Michelle are in the process of trying replacing their Windows network at home with Linux [...]