So today I picked up two surplus SunBlade 150 workstations. The price seemed right, and I figure that at the very least, they’d give me some Sparc machines to play around with. The two seem slightly different. Externally, one has a CD-RW and one has a DVD-ROM …

First of all, until I decide on either splitting my blog, or setting up separate ‘channels’ for personal and technical stuff, I’ll annotate the difference in post titles.

So I have a few days of sanity - the last week of classes - before exam time. Hopefully I’ll wrap some …

In my usual lunchtime Digg reading, I came by a link to the BusinessWeek Most Important Products of 2007. Given the number of cars, it’s apparent that this is a very consumer-oriented listing. But I was a bit surprised - the first four products were all from Apple - the iPhone …

So I have a nice weekend of real-world non-technical activities ahead of me. A welcome end to a week of insanely busy school work, and a welcome break before the threat of exams 2 weeks away becomes real. I’ve been working on a few projects - centralized logging and analysis …

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Facebook recently rolled out the Beacon service which provides Facebook with “advertising” information.

A quick overview is available at: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140182-c,onlinepriacy/article.html

The bottom line is that whenever you visit a participating site (there are …

Just a short note today - it’s an insanely busy week. I’ve been finishing up the web GUI for my print accounting system (previously mentioned) and had to dive into CUPS/IPP to pull out information on whether or not a print job is printed in duplex. I’ve …

Since we moved into our apartment at the end of last summer, my roommates and I have had a Brother 5170DN monochrome laser in the hallway as a communal printer. Last weekend, two new printers arrived - I got a Xerox DocuPrint N4525 - a big surplus student lab printer that handles …

I sent the following as (appropriately enough) a Facebook message to Mark Zuckerberg:

Dude, I know you’re a big-shot, but I thought I’d give this a try, just giving you (and the Facebook team) some feedback.

I’m growing so frustrated with facebook that I’m thinking of …

I know I don’t update anywhere near often enough - then again, I update a lot more here than I do on my Sun blog. But I’ll do better, I promise - and I’ll setup a new template, too. Maybe tonight.

So I was just thinking about my software …

Well, I’ve been pretty busy lately, between school work and work for Sun and Rutgers. Rutgers seems to be planning a new student lab, so I’ll probably have a hand in that. And I’m now doing troubleshooting and on-site support for RUwired and the Smart Classrooms. It …