I know I’ve been complaining the past few weeks about how we have gotten screwed out of a good winter storm at least 3 times already this year, so let me just say “you were right” to all those people telling me to STFU. After getting up at 10am and spending a good couple hours [...]

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If I didn’t have music at work, I would have killed myself a long time ago….
[12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just dropped
[13:50] mrelectro37: why
[13:51] djdefunkt: you know what
[13:51] djdefunkt: it was just my net
[13:51] djdefunkt: i have been on the phone for the past hour
[13:51] djdefunkt: our t1 dropped
[13:51] mrelectro37: SUPER WEAK
[13:51] djdefunkt: [12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just [...]

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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a [...]

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Note: if you are intimidated by geekspeak look away from this post.
I spent the better part of a few hours this morning trying to figure out why I could not get a virtual appliance to boot on one of my VMware Server boxes. I would start the guest OS, but would get nothing but a [...]

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Ever wanted to put together a VMware virtual machine host without using windows, but were too intimidated? If you�re like me, you like the idea of using a low overhead OS on your host boxes to maximize the resources available for your virtual machines.
Unfortunately, up until now any *nix system install had a bit of [...]

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While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused.

The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list.
Oh and trogdor.
What the heck [...]

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I think this pretty much describes how I like my work days to go to a “T”.

Let them work when they want
Geeks work almost every moment they are awake. They are online before they go to the office. They are home working after the office closes. They work weekends. They are even sometimes working in [...]

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Good thing I run this on all of my machines as well. See Christa, marrying a geek has it’s benefits…
SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers’ home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout [...]

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Occasionally I come across something tech related that I’m working on which is hard to find documented, so I document it here for myself & for google to index to possibly help others…
I wrote a simple web page hit counter for my website years ago using php & mysql. This worked fine until last year [...]

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I had to reload my machine this past weekend. I was very proud of the fact that it was going on 2.5 years and Windows XP SP2 was still as solid as a rock. You can imagine my disappointment Sunday morning when I discovered my machine hopelessly infected with some kind of combination popupware/virus. Being [...]

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