As I mentioned in Downtime past few days, coping with storms, as a result of some things I noticed with a recent power outage, I’ve decided to take the leap to virtualization. Given the cost of current hardware that supports HVM (Intel VT-x or AMD-V ), I immediately …

As far as I can see from Google Analytics, though I’m now up to about 4,000 visitors per month for this blog, it seems like most are one-time visitors. So hopefully the few hiccups of the past few days weren’t noticed (except by me, and my mailserver …

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After seeing a link to it on the SAGE mailing list, I happened to read Mark Dennehy’sblog post on Tips for hiring new engineers. I felt the need to make a few comments on some of his findings. Perhaps someone in HR, or a recruiter, will actually read this …

I just came by an interesting post on Slashdot, A Public Funded “Microsoft Shop?”. The author works at a publicly-funded hospital and comments that he received an email from management stating:

Information Services is strategically a Microsoft shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy …

As has been in the news (and advertised to high hell) for the past few days here in NJ, Cablevision and ABC are involved in a feud. Cablevision is advertising everywhere - I heard at least 4 ads on the drive home from work about how ABC is making unreasonable demands …

Note for non-technical readers (not that I expect there to be many). The title of this post includes the word “hacker”. If you think that has anything to do with illegal acts or unethical behavior, you’ve fallen victim to what happens when the mainstream media latches on to a …

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Tonight, more or less on a whim, I moved my blog from my older (dual 1GHz Pentium III Coppermine, 1GB RAM, 10k RPM SCSI disks, Compaq Proliant DL360 G1, OpenSuSE 10.2 32-bit) web server to my newer one (dual 1.4GHz Pentium III, 2GB RAM, 10k RPM SCSI disks …

Update 2010-08-15 - I’ve also added some new apps to an updated post.

The past 48 hours has been very eventful in my Android world. Thanks to the instructions on rootyourdroid.info (hey, it’s an expensive phone and locked hardware - I’m not fooling around the way I would …