I read a very interesting article on Linux-Mag.com today. The gist of it is that Microsoft (as happily announced in a press release) has submitted 20,000 lines of code for inclusion into the kernel. Specifically, the code is comprised of a number of drivers that will enable Linux …

At $WORK, my group runs about two dozen servers that provide services for over 60,000 users. They’re a mix of Windows and Linux, with some old Solaris stuff thrown in there. The one thing they have in common is they’re all hand-built, hand-configured, and old. They’ve …

Update / Notice: This post was written in 2008. The world has changed since then. A lot. We have good, easy configuration management like Puppet, Chef, etc. (which, in fact, I use to manage my desktop and laptop) and, more importantly, creating and destroying servers can be done in seconds rather …

It seems like every time I open up my Google Reader account, there’s news about another company that released a knock-off of my beloved Asus eeePC 4G Surf (701) (interestingly, it looks like eeepc.asus.com is down at the moment of writing). Even Asus has released numerous (I …

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 …

Update July 11, 2011 - I just found out that this post is heavily quote in an article on theinquirer.net about this issue. Luckily (I don’t know whether I made a difference or not, certainly CitiBank never contacted me back), citicards.com now works with Firefox on Linux. I …

I’m taking a summer course in Building Data Driven Websites - not that I thought I’d learn much in such a course at SCILS, but I’d like to graduate on time, and need the credits, and Bill Crosbie is just the type of rare teacher that can keep …

I’ve been incredibly busy lately. But I have 2 quick updates-

tuxOstat, my thermostat project, isn’t totally finished, but is up and running. There’s still some work to do, but the code is largely complete. There’s also a web interface with temperature graphs, system status, and …

Well, TuxTruck has been temporarily put on the back burner. I priced out the hardware, and it looks like a minimum of $1000, more like $1000 if I get what I had originally wanted. This is complicated by the fact that my roommates and I were just hit with a …

So I’ve been playing around withSunSPOTs lately. Or trying to. My only x86 (32-bit) machines are an old desktop running OpenSuSE 10.1 and my eeePC. It looks like I just killed my new install on the 8GB SDHC card, so I gave the desktop a try …