Entries from July 2007

I Didn’t Even Know I Could Shut Off Our Firewall From Here

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 31, 2007 at 9:55am   User  by Mike

The office I’m in right now would probably have me shipped to shipped to Siberia for even reading an article like this… oh well, sometimes one has to be a little flexible in their interpretations of corporate policy in order to properly execute one’s priorities.
That sounds nice and defensible, doesn’t it?

Productivity: 10 things your IT [...]

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Robots Are Perfectly Safe, Nothing Could Ever Go Wrong

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 31, 2007 at 9:18am   User  by Mike

Good selection, totally worth it for the movie clips!

List of 50 best movie robots of all time, with video

via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2007
Xeni Jardin:
The guys at Times Online (UK) have compiled a list of the 50 coolest movie robots, measured with the following factors in [...]

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Links of Linux

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 26, 2007 at 8:04pm   User  by Mike

Hey, if I wanted something that just worked out of the box, I’d have got another Mac.
Actually, I tried to get another Mac, just couldn’t justify the finances when I added in the price of a full version of Windows to run all my biz software.
Point is, Linux, even a flavour as refined as Ubuntu, [...]

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E-Mail Overload, What’s The Problem?

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 26, 2007 at 11:46am   User  by Mike

I admit, I’ve become one of those “pile, then file” e-mail guys, with hundreds of messages in my inbox that I’ll go through and label/file in one huge blitz every couple months. It’s that dang GMail! Google search is just so convenient that I don’t need to bother organizing anything!
Bad form, I know. [...]

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What, You Don’t Listen To Hardcore Balkan Klezmer Remixes? Sellout.

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 26, 2007 at 11:23am   User  by Mike

More of that kind of music that makes people go “what the heck is that, and where you do find this stuff??”

MP3 Mixtapes: Balkan hotsteppaz, hardcore klezmer, Roma rap, Raï

via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2007
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(1) A Belgian DJ named Typsy Gypsy (half of the Balkan Hot Stepsoundsystem [...]

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The Penguin Has Landed

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 25, 2007 at 3:58pm   User  by Mike

I am writing this post from my brand new install of Ubuntu 7.04 (aka: Fiesty Fawn) on my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop (aka: work computer).
Came with Vista… hate it.Dual-boot installed XP for legacy industry software… still hate it.
Sick of the crashes, freezes, stupidly slow response times to the most basic requests.
Been reading about this Ubuntu [...]

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Happy Sysadmin Day, Should I Send Myself Virtual Flowers?

Comments   1   Date Arrow  July 25, 2007 at 2:40pm   User  by Mike

Being the resident unofficial techie of my friends, family, and now office, I’m going to allow myself an extra 3d6 minutes of blogging, screwing around with Ubuntu, and randomly flipping through Userfriendly archives.
Geek-break begins… well… I guess about 5 minutes ago when I started writing this.
ahhhh…
 

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
via WWdN: In Exile by wil@wilwheaton.net [...]

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Hear Someone That Knows What They’re Talking About Make Fun Of Cheesy Old Movies

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 25, 2007 at 9:10am   User  by Mike

A bit of movie-geek fun. I’ve been getting more and more into listening to commentary tracks on movies that I enjoy, so I find it really interesting to hear these directors talk about their memories and experiences from the same side of the camera as I am (ie: watching the movies, not making them). [...]

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Boy, That Guy Sure Seems To Be Sending A Lot Of Pictures Of Unicorns These Days…

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 25, 2007 at 8:42am   User  by Mike

Interesting… I haven’t quite yet come across the need for such paranoia in my own communications, but it’s good to know my options.
If you’re dating a cryptography geek, you should totally embed a steamy love note inside a cutesy romantic picture and then get him/her to figure it out. They’d be totally impressed!

How To: [...]

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101 Fewer Excuses To Order Delivery… Dangit

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 25, 2007 at 8:41am   User  by Mike

This is a great list of quick-hit meals… and most of them actually sound pretty good! I’m always looking for something to throw down my gullet between running in the door after work and running out the door to whatever we’re doing that day.

101 Simple Meals

via Dethroner by Joel on Jul 25, 2007

Most guys [...]

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