No, not those itty-bitty cars we all knew and loved from the 80′s. I’m talking about two miniature computers thta I happened to catch a glimpse of in the various nerd and gadget rags that I subscribe to. The first, I’ll admit, I had a hard time figuring out at first glance. “Are those joysticks?” [...]
Archive for June, 2006
29 Jun
Canned oxygen: now available in a Seven-Eleven near you
…that is, if you happen to live in Japan. Perhaps taking its cue from increasingly popular oxygen bar fad, the convenience store chain has decided to start stocking its shelves with cans of oxygen. (I’m assuming the airplane facemask attachment is sold separately?) On the one hand – the reasonable one, if hands can be [...]
29 Jun
Superfast internet cafe
An internet cafe has opened in the UK. Big deal, right? Well…this particular cafe has some pretty big pipes. “How big are they?” you ask. How does download speeds of up to 100 Mbps strike ya? “But surely the customers pay a fee for using connections with such enormous potential!” Nope. Absolutely free. (Okay, so [...]
27 Jun
Migration
Just an FYI – CliftonSnyder.net has been migrated to different hardware. The change seems to have gone smoothly and (hopefully) nothing was broken or interrupted…
13 Jun
Dapper Multimedia
First, you’ll want to set up your apt sources like so. Then, run this apt-get command (ed: minus skype and realplay), and (theoretically) your multimedia will all Just Work ™.
3 Jun
Red Hat Summit
Again, I’m a bit behind the times, but last week the 2006 Red Hat Summit took place in Nashville, Tennessee. I didn’t get to go – my boss and a co-worker did – but the web site has blog and video links that I’ll be checking out this weekend. I’m particularly interested in Matthew Szulik’s [...]
3 Jun
Dapper Drake Released
This is “old news” by now, but Ubuntu 6.06 “Dapper Drake” was released on June 1. The Ubuntu team did things a little differently this time, releasing three CD images: Desktop, Server, and Alternate. I’ve burned all three, but have only had the chance to install Dapper using the Desktop one. “What about the live [...]
3 Jun
Simple Backups Using rsync
I found this page on Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with rsync the other day. Since I’d recently bought a new 120GB hard drive ($35 buys a lot of storage these days!) I decided to set up one of my extra machines as a backup server and bash out a script to automate backups. It’s a [...]
