Archive for the ‘Amazing’ Category
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...
Posted in Amazing, Hardware, Hosting, IT, Linux, Ridiculous, Software, Technology, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
It really couldn't be any easier than this:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box.
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Every year my desktop gets older, our mortgage gets smaller, the games get better, and I crave new hardware. The 1st step is to admit you're addicted, right? Without further adieu, I present you with my pick for the best gaming desktop of 2008. My picks were ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
...mostly.
Kara and I have worked feverishly over the last year-and-a-half to pay off our high interest (8.25%) second mortgage. When we bought our home in October of 2006 we opted to do an 85/15 mortgage setup to conserve our savings. Instead of a down payment we got a ...
Posted in Amazing, House, Money | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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Posted in Amazing, Health, Ridiculous, Sports | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Mark pointed out a question on the Adobe AIR forums that consisted of a guy asking whether or not Windows 98 would ever be supported. Our follow-up conversation is as follows:
Jeremy: who uses windows 98 still?
Jeremy: that's 11 years old :p
Mark R: PLENTY of people still use win 95
Mark ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Depressing, Humor, Quotes, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I upgraded my laptop hard drive from 160GB to 200GB. In the process I was left with a chunk of 40GB of unallocated space. For the past 4 months I've ignored this space because Windows Vista's built-in partition manager couldn't do anything with it due to Dell's crazy ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
These guys designed a Guitar Hero bot that uses photo diodes to sense when a note should be played. Genius.
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Posted in Amazing, Circuits, Entertainment, Gaming, Guitar Hero, Programming, Ridiculous, Technology | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
I've tried Gruul's Lair twice before tonight in a PUG which both failed miserably. Tonight we beat the crap out of the instance thanks to an all-guild, well-equipped group. I died zero (0) times and our main tank, Squirrels, survived the entire time as well. Below is ...
Posted in Amazing, Entertainment, Gaming, WoW | 2 Comments »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
After running Karazhan last night I finally acquired enough Badges of Justice to purchase this sweet little trinket called Essence of the Martyr which raised my +healing from 1250 to 1334.
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