What do you do when life gets in the way?

September 1st, 2009 matt 1 comment

I’ve been thinking long and hard about something that has been bothering me. Almost a year ago, I vowed to get into college and to work towards achieving a lifetime goal I have of graduating from college with a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering. Well, it’s almost a year and I have been able [...]

YourWarrantyIsVoid.com made Hackaday!

August 23rd, 2009 matt No comments

Not two days after initial launch, one of my posts on YourWarrantyIsVoid.com made Hack-A-Day. I am so happy that they liked the APC UPS article I submitted to them. The article is here:http://hackaday.com/2009/08/22/a-linux-server-that-tweets-power-changes/

Are you an “Elder” just because you’re elder?

August 14th, 2009 matt 1 comment

Been thinking of a conversation between friends regarding the use of the world “Elder”. These two had an argument concerning the use of the term where one person thought that those younger should call them Elder because they were older then their peers.
The other person’s stance was that although the first person was indeed [...]

Setting up Ubuntu with vsFTP for network install

August 11th, 2009 matt No comments

This is the next post in the series of using Ubuntu to PXEboot other Linux installations.
Click Here to read on how to set up the TFTPboot server on Ubuntu
In our last post, we configured TFTP on the Ubuntu server and successfully tested it using VMware or a second PC. Using a menu-based system, we [...]

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What is 230 / 8-11

August 9th, 2009 matt No comments

Ok, I’m sure you’ve seen the ads, and with a little bit of speculation and a lot of time reading news sites prior, I think I have the answer.
The commercials are on a green background with a power plug that smiles and the number 23 appears on it. Soon after, 8-11 appears below it [...]

To blog or to journal, that is the question…

August 7th, 2009 matt No comments

(My apologies to Shakespeare…)
Been thinking about a lot of this “Web 2.0″ talk that has been coming around more and more. I might sound a bit “get off my lawn”-ish but I can’t stand it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to go anti-tech on anyone, (heck, I have a Facebook, Livejournal, [...]

Ubuntu TFTPBoot with no hairloss (8.10 Hardy Heron)

August 5th, 2009 matt No comments

This howto posts a decent description on how to set up the TFTP service on your Ubuntu box using some software borrowed from the Ultimate Boot CD to generate menus

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Month long real-world usage of the Pre

August 4th, 2009 matt 4 comments

After owning my Palm Pre, I have decided to do a followup review. Unfortunately it seems to be common practice of most company-based reviews to only use the product for a few days and then review it which really doesn’t paint a realistic view of what you can expect overall.
So here we go. [...]

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Selling out or making some extra $$?

July 26th, 2009 matt 1 comment

I was on a smoke break at work talking to a coworker who was talking about his site. I was listening kinda half-assedly when he said that his site was making a load of money. When I asked him about it, he said that Google was doing advertising and depending on the options selected, [...]

Welcome Home!!!

July 22nd, 2009 matt No comments

Well, the files have been moved, the SQL unpacked and just rolling out the new carpet of changes and stuff. I’m happy to say that we look to have survived the transition from the home cable server to the new shared server at HostGator.com.
Lots of changes are in the mix as I [...]