Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Brother HL-2170W that I got for my mother. It seemed absolutely wonderful. Until the night of March 31st, just before Conficker was supposed to strike. Being that mom’s computer is the only one at home running Windows, I finished up a …

I’ve posted an update about serious DHCP problems with this unit.

Last week my mother’s printer died, and she asked me to find a new one for her. After a quick look on NewEgg (sort by ratings is a wonderful thing) I found the Brother HL-2170W. Aside …

Well, despite what’s been said elsewhere, it IS possible! It’s a bit error-ridden at first, but here is the procedure that I used to compile and install the PVR-150 patched LIRC 0.8.3-CVS.

First, Download the tarball mentioned in the Version 3 blog post at …

Ok, an update is a long time coming, and I’ll post one this weekend with status of a lot of my projects, as well as some new information.

For now, I’m installing two beautiful SunFire x4150’s at work, and here’s a little bit of information on …

Well, finals season is upon me. That’s probably why I haven’t been posting much lately (I haven’t even been checking Google Reader - I’ll have to delete a few thousand entries when I get back into the swing of things). I’ve been pretty busy, between studying …

At the Midland Park Ambulance Corps, where I’ve been volunteering my time as an EMT and all-around tech guru for three years, we have an IEI HubMax2 access control system. Maybe overkill for us (only 78 users in it, including old codes), it’s pretty simple - a box with …

So, once again, still really busy. But a few new things.

First, my racks both at home and at the apartment are atrocious. They have no cable management at all. Both started with 1-3 machines, and no real plans for upgrades (since they’re just my personal/development machines). Unfortunately …

I’m trying to get around to updating my blog on a regular basis. I have a lot of links that I wanted to mention, but I might just post a list of them with short descriptions.

I’ve finished most of my HOWTO on installing OpenSuSE on an external …

So in the past weekend, I had my first real experience with Solaris in production. I finally setup my Sun Blade 150 running Solaris 10 as my new mailserver, replacing a (!!!) vintage 1998 Gateway Pentium II 350MHz desktop. Quite an upgrade, even to the still-not-new Sun workstation. Maybe sometime in …

Yes, it’s 3 AM here, and I’ve been working since about 6 PM on this. But I finally got one of my two surplus (and fully locked down in NVRAM) Sun Blade 150 workstations up and running. I encountered a few problems along the way, but managed to …