Oct 6
2011
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-Apple Inc.
Sep 28
2011
Firefox 4 was just released, and what it lacks for feature and ui upgrades, it MORE than makes up for in optimization. Firefox has notoriously been a major memory hog, especially when loading up many tabs containing various media types and javascript and such. this just changed.
with huge performance improvements, and in my (not very scientific) test, which included looking at how much memory was being taken up by the previous version on my desktop with my 40 some tabs that I already had open (was about 5gb), killed firefox, upgraded to 7, and restored the preveous sessions, waited a a minute for the tabs to load, and took another look… this time it was only using up about 1.5gb o_O
I’m particularly impressed with this new version… looks the same, works so much faster.
May 25
2011
The new version of Fedora was released today sporting gnome 3.0 integration (with completely redesigned UI), much improved btrfs support, and the latest versions of much of the other standard linux packages that make this distribution fine. It’s far from my personal favorite (I never really liked RPM/yum myself and many of the system files aren’t where they belong on a normal linux system), but it’s a huge improvement over previous iterations.
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!
