Monthly Archives: May 2008

Pieces of Me That Exist in the Cloud

Picture taken from here Mobile computing is becoming my newest fascination.  My previous fascinations included network based storage, network redundancy, and network security.   I enjoy making things do things that they were meant or designed to.   This is part of the sould that drives my curiousity to the edge of insanity and teeters over the

The Crossposting God Series Part 5 – Myspace

Picture from here Myspace. Myspace. OK, I’ve repeated it a couple times I think I’m ready to actually talk about it.  Unlike some other services where I explain the community and the functions, I’m going to refrain from doing that for Myspace.  While I do have a myspace account, I won’t say that I truly

Going to the Drive-In

Tonight Xie and I went to the drive-in.  The drive-in, America’s greatest past time decades ago.  We were driving looking for a used computer store (which we never found) and stumbled across this drive-in.   WIthin driving distance there are three drive-ins that we know about, this one happened to be playing the new Indiana Jones

Hackintosh Failure

So last night I did try to turn my laptop into a hackintosh, and it didn’t turn out so well.  After installation I seemed to have an issue with my video not working (ironic that it works for the installation screens).  I futzed with it for awhile and since have given up on it.    I’m

Tonight I’m Trying To Make My Laptop A Hackintosh

So most you know that I was running Ubuntu Hardy Heron, but during some patching I hit some data corruption that caused my laptop to go all screwy.  The first thing I noticed was the touchpad stopped working.   Um….ok.   Then I was getting errors on boot up, more or less when I logged in some

The Crossposting God Series Part 4 – Entry, Distribution, and End Points

Photo From Here When we think about crossposting, it actually is more in depth then most people think.  From a very simple level you go from one site to another.   At a higher level though you are publishing from a single source to tens if not hundreds of places.   Used correctly crossposting is a very

Nerd vs. Geek vs. Dork

Picture from here Today I read a comment on slashdot that inspired me to write on this subject.  The comment was written on the Secret History of Star Wars article and was given by Omestes and was as follows: Oh god, the Nerd/Dork/Geek argument. We always went with nerds being unwashed, antisocial geniuses who small