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I have found yet another way to wear out my mp3 player.  I’m about a quarter of the way through Ancestor.  It’s an audiobook by Scott Sigler.  I had a chance to get four episodes in on airplanes today.  Not sure if it … Continue reading →

Just a quick update on the Document Management System I wrote about earlier.  KnowledgeTree Open Source is now running at home and at the office.  The amount of physical and digital files I have cluttered all over the place in the past is being significantly reduced.  Anyone who is looking for a way to unclutter [...] Continue reading →

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF – The SurveyName:MikeBirthday:10/13/1976Birthplace:Crown Point, INCurrent Location:Richmond, TX (Houston)Eye Color:BlueHair Color:BlondHeight:I’ve got someRight Handed or Left H… Continue reading →

Malicious Software Encyclopedia: RealVNC: This is is rather interesting to me.  VNC is in a certain someone’s malicious software encyclopedia. 
The joke continues by including a section called  “How to Tell If Your Computer Is Infected”. 
Just to explain this to anyone I may have recommended VNC to in the past, vnc like any other [...] Continue reading →

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I finally had a chance to upload the pictures from Hannah’s birthday. They are available here. Unfortunately, our camera doesn’t do very well with motion. Fortunately, we used the Hi-8 cam at the party too. I will be emailing a … Continue reading →

I spent about 3 hours last night working on implementing KnowledgeTree Open Source Edition at home. I’ve been meaning to scan all my paperwork that inevitably builds up and box it up for storage. I will also be adding an access list limiting this system to one ip on my LAN. [...] Continue reading →

I received a Philips keychain cam from Santa and recently had the opportunity to test it out on my Ubuntu Edgy box. These little things are more of a toy than an actual digital camera. With a 640×480 resolution and no flash, it is hard to see why anyone would need this thing. [...] Continue reading →

I finally have a virtualization server set up.  Following the instructions over at Howto Forge I was able to successfully compile and install VMware Server on a box that was resurrected a few days ago by installing Edgy.  The instructions were for Dapper and when I got to the point where the VMI failed to [...] Continue reading →