Or, never leave your MacBook open while there are cats around who would like nothing better than to sleep on your keyboard. You’ll come back to find your Mac speaking every item you select, Spotlight beachballed, and strange double options in the Finder menu:
A reboot seems to have cleared everything up, but I’ve no [...]
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When you are ten years old, the world is massive, unimaginably gigantic, full of wonder and mystery, full of magic and hope. Scary at times, brilliant at others. She wants to be a ballerina, a dance teacher, a scientist, an archeologist, an astronomer, to find the lost ark, to save sick animals.
She wants [...]
My co-worker and I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon going through a former employee’s shell scripts to try to determine what they were and what he was trying to do. The script worked, for a while, but there were several mistakes. The mistakes were not in strict syntax, they were in [...]
From time to time I’m asked by members of my family or friends of mine outside the tech industry what it is that I do for a living. When I respond that I’m a sysadmin, or systems administrator for Linux and UNIX servers, more times than not I get the “deer in the headlights” [...]
A few days ago I decided that I was not going to use anyone else’s theme on my site. It happened after I stumbled across another site using the exact same theme as mine. Unavoidable really, as long as you are using someone else’s theme. So, the decision was to either stop [...]
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I went for a walk with the kids today, and found some really nice leaves and water in the runoffs.
For better or worse, we are starting to put Ubuntu JeOS images into production in our network. Starting off, we will only put these systems in for our non-IBM services, no WebSphere or DB2, as IBM doesn’t officially support this configuration yet, but for everything else, JeOS looks like a perfect fit.
Most of our [...]
It was June of 1996 when I arrived in Rota. The Spanish sun was bright as I stepped off the creaky military aircraft, and I realized that this day would hold a lot of firsts for me. Today, I was going to meet my ship.
This was the day for which I had been preparing [...]