I attempted to install PC-BSD on my main workstation but the installer failed pretty early in the process. I downloaded and burned another iso. Same issues. I went to their website and jumped on their IRC and could not find an answer. It’s a shame since I was really interested in checking it out. I’ve […]
Sam, the world’s ugliest dog has died at the age of 14:
I went to the doctor and found out that I had a bronchitis. I pretty much knew it was some kind of respitory infection. I had a 103 fever and was coughing up gobs of phlem. Nice huh?! Well I’ve been on anti-biotics for a few days now and I’m feeling a lot better (not […]
Last night when I came home from work my throat was killing me and I was developing a nasty cough. My wife was so kind to go out and get me some medicine so I could sleep a little better. Unfortunately it didn’t do much good. I stayed home from work today and was able […]
This past weekend was my son’s second birthday so I didn’t have much time to do techie things. I lamely attempted to install Arch Linux on a spare drive. I’ve heard such wonderful things about this linux distribution from several people and really wanted to check it out. I abandoned the install once I realized […]
A couple of listeners mentioned another DVD backup application for linux. K9Copy is an application developed in France that is more like the old DVDShrink application (in Windows) than xDVDShrink is.
You can copy an entire DVD with all the menus intact or just strip out the main feature. You can also keep alternate audio […]
With all the talk of worms and possible security vulnerabilities I decided to upgrade the server. It wasn’t down very long maybe 15 mintues. Mysql wasn’t starting up automatically. I checked the version number of the mysql packages. For whatever reason the mysql packages weren’t on the upgrade list so I manually upgraded to the […]
I was checking out what’s coming up in the next issue of Linux Journal:
Looks like they’re finally writing about MythTV. I also noticed that there’s an article on QDvdauthor
I’m really glad these great linux applications are getting some press.
Here in the United States, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving where stores have these ridiculous sales to kick off the Christmas season. People line up for hours before the stores open up in the dark and cold of the early morning:
Once the doors open there’s a mad dash to get the items you […]