May 12
2011
Hello everybody (the whole 1-2 users who actually take a look at my site every once in a blue moon)! I apologize for the recent outage.
Upon upgrading to the new Ubuntu 11.04 distribution, VMware Server (which is the main operating platform for my web and database servers), refused to compile the kernel modules necessary for loading virtual machines, and thus, the web and database servers couldn’t be booted. After about 2 weeks worth of research, I discovered others were having similar problems and there is now a clear solution to this particular problem (located here if anybody is having similar difficulties).
And now we’re back!
With any luck, the next long batch of downtime will be for the conversion of this site to wordpress (with articles intact hopefully)… Stay tuned for additional information on that.
Apr 11
2011
There’s a new version of Ubuntu linux (my personal distribution of choice) just on the horizon!
Mar 21
2011
I have successfully switched ISPs for site hosting and things are *much* more stable now. you should note a pretty large improvement in site responsiveness overall and I will probably be expanding a little here and there again!
Feb 5
2011
The OKCupid mobile app team have completely outdone themselves with a complete rewrite of an app that was already quite good. The redesign includes a much more user-friendly interface that displays all the same information in a much more easily navigated format, especially for users of smaller touch devices like the iPhone, while also improving the interface responsiveness by leaps and bounds. I have seen very few iPhone social apps with this level of polish and I really hope they keep up the good work over there at OKCupid. (read more for details!) Read More >>
Oct 21
2010
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/vuzixs-new-augmented-reality-glasses-blend-virtual-and-physical-reality-2010018/
now why can’t someone come out with a socially acceptable version of something like this that i can wear to work without looking like a borg? also i think that it would take a fair bit of computer power to realize the potential of such glasses… the ultimate goal for me would be something akin to the gui presented in iron man.
Please click “read more” to continue
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May 9
2010
Since the beginning, everybody and their brother has been looking for some kind of good multitasking solution for the iPhone. Unfortunately, it looks like there won’t be any good solution (by my standards) on this platform.
iPhone multitasking: past, present, and future. (please read on)
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May 4
2010
The Social networking company Seesmic has been working hard at developing various social network (mostly twitter) clients for various platforms including Android, Adobe Air, and Blackberry. Now they have released an AJAX powered web client! (click read more)
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Feb 19
2010
My sincere apologies about today’s bought of downtime… When I was updating my server this morning, I wanted it to go down for a reboot so as to use the latest kernel configuration that I just updated but instead of typing “shutdown -r now” to reboot the server, I wasn’t paying attention and accidentally entered “shutdown -h now”, which to those of you who don’t speak *n?x means that I asked the server to halt / power off… I haven’t been in the Cpgeek.org HQ all day (I was running the updates remotely from my day job) so nobody was around to turn the box back on… so yeah… my bad…
