The aging of Wafwot continues. I had one of my worst-ever Senior Moments earlier this week. I drove my truck to Seattle on Monday because our regular carpool driver was working in the Oak Harbor office. So, like any other day, I was up before the rooster across the street. Since I’m still coughing due [...]
Hey look. The title “Miscellany” is back. I didn’t use it last time because I wrote a little too much about work-oriented topics (mine and other’s). This should be a more accurate update worthy of such a title. Before leaving the office this evening, I took a trip to the head. It has become a [...]
My apologies if the title of this entry doesn’t show up in your browser. It’s Japanese (I think) for “3 monitors.” I chose a Japanese translation because it was infuriating Japanese technology that was causing me to pull my hair out… if I had hair to pull. The picture shown here is my desk at [...]
SunRocket has painted themselves a "No Gotchas" Internet phone service with a bottom line price. I have to admit, no taxes, no fees, and a monthly charge of $24.95 a month has its appeal. I’m already a Vonage customer, and their monthly fee is $24.99, but the fees and taxes take the price over $27.00 [...]
This week has been Apple‘s time to shine at the Macworld Expo. I’m not a die-hard Mac fan, but they have some of the sexiest hardware in the industry, and they just keep getting better at it. (I think Steve Jobs could design and sell iSnowshoes to polynesians in Papua New Guinea.) Apple has [...]
Sometimes we get requests at work that seem easy. Today, a customer wanted to make his log files available via his browser. I did the normal things; disabled anonymous access to the logs virtual directory, enabled directory browsing, etc. However, when I tried to view the log files, IIS kept kicking back a 404 error [...]
I’ve been tweaking OS X Tiger to work better with my x86 hardware. The first thing I did was configure GRUB on the primary drive to dual boot between Debian Linux and Tiger. It’s a lot easier to switch between OSes now, obviously. I’ve managed to increase the display resolution from 1024×768 to 1280×1024. The [...]
I decided to yank the hard drives from my Debian Linux system (which runs on an Asus A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3000+ CPU and 512MB of PC3200 RAM) and try installing OS X "Tiger" for x86 on it. Installation was flawless again. However, when I rebooted after installation, the system threw up a kernel [...]
Three words: Oh my fucking God! I can’t believe it worked… and it was so flawless! Another Screenshot I downloaded a 4 GB DVD ISO torrent from the Internet which contained OS X “Tiger” 10.4.1 for Intel processors. I burned the image to a DVD and decided to see if it would boot. To my [...]
Sometimes I run across some tech tidbit that I want to save, and have no place to save it. Tonight was one such time. I was working on this godamned ticket system on my VPS account, and a friend jabbered me trivia question about creating /dev/null if it’s accidentally deleted. [06:53:44 PM] <vmann> Sheesh, now [...]
