Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Ended up having to do some repair work on a WII today. I had to take it apart to get stuff out of the inside that was rattling around. Good repair procedure here, walks you through the steps and order of which panels to take off first. ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Upgraded Sockso music server to version 1.1.6 tonite - since a new release was available. Upgrade is as simple as extracting this zip file into a directory that is a peer to the existing version. Then just point the startup script to the new version - or you can use ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Well, after a few days of testing different Linux laptop OS's, I've ruled out gOS 3.1 for me. Its flashy, nice, extendable, and totally usable for normal users. But as a system admin - missing tools like nslookup, dig, rdesktop, etc - was just too much. Every time I needed ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Using my Sony Vaio (pcg-fx370) as the base for testing Freespire 2.0, so I could do a real compare with gOS 3.1. The gOS definitely looks nicer at first because of all its widgets, but in truth - Freespire has alot to offer. Freespire's look and feel is smooth, polished ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Last night, found a water leak in the ceiling of my office, right by the air conditioner vent. Turns out that the vent pipe for the bathroom plumbing had been taking on water, not draining back, and had frozen and burst in this extreme cold. I searched for ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
In an attempt to find a linux OS that I like more than Xandros4, which I've been using for about 2 years now, I tried to setup gOS 3.1 on an IBM T23 recently. It can run as a live CD, so you can test it all out first ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Upgraded Sockso music server to version 1.1.5 tonite - since a new release was available. Upgrade is as simple as extracting this zip file into a directory that is a peer to the existing version (1.1.4 for me, which was just updated from 1.1.3). Then just point the startup script ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Posted in my public wiki site, pages for my client and server perl port/socket testing scripts. I've been using the client script for a good 8 years or more. The server script has been used for testing over the last 2-3 years or so. But I realized today that they ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Ran into a snag on my new Sockso music server ... the server I was running it on was my normal web server. That server hosts all my web content, plus is the server that builds the pictures pages using jigl. Everytime jigl kicked off, the music would get choppy. ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
I was having some trouble this morning and yesterday, adding images into my Deki Wiki pages. I really like Deki, so wanted to find a solution. I know my release is old, because back in May I tried to upgrade from my version 1.0.9a to the 8.0.5 - but I ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Setup the Sockso music server today. Very impressive. It simply extracts into a directory on the server (Linux in my case), you run a java gui to configure your collection (which took over 2.5 hours to catalog my music collection), and then point your browser to it. Its an easy ...
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