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It must be some of that fuzzy math.
My server has 128MB of PC100 SDRAM. Today, I bought a 256MB stick of PC133 SDRAM. I put it in my server’s second RAM slot. When the system booted up, it reported only 160MB of RAM in total. Upon booting into Linux, free -m and dmesg confirmed this tally. I took out the PC100 and …
Ongoing traffic problems.
My continuing apologies for ongoing traffic problems with this site and others on this server, perhaps most notably cvillenews.com. Both this site and cvillenews.com have been experience geometric growth in traffic in the past few months, and it’s just gotten to be too much for my little server sitting in a closet, connected to the …
“On ‘getting it’,” or “Obama and me.”
“He gets it.” This phrase — “gets it” — is a phrase tossed around obnoxiously by us internet veterans, and is used to refer to an individual or an entity that “groks” (there’s another one of those words) the internet. Not just uses the internet, but that fully appreciates and takes advantage of the give-and-take …
Bluetooth pony.
As long as we’re handing out ponies, I have a pony request. When I walk into my house, my phone (a Sony Ericsson T610, the phone of choice for geeks) makes a Bluetooth connection with my Powermac desktop. That automagically wakes up my computer, checks my mail, and updates my newsreader. When I walk out …
You do want to be cool, right?
From Commonwealth Conservative: Just a reminder — go register now for The Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth. All the cool kids are going to be there!
Bob Marshall’s on the internets.
Ol’ Bob Marshall has his very own website now. It really summarizes his career. Want to contact him during the 11 months of the year when the GA isn’t in session? You can meet him here: District Office P.O. Box 421 Manassas, VA 20108 (It’s very cozy.) Want to get in touch with him by …
Why I don’t use the acronym “MSM.”
Mike Powell, quoted by Adam Penenberg in Wired: Both the established incumbency and radical innovators make the mistake of thinking they will replace the other. Just like cable news hardly writes news, instead broadcasting the front page of The New York Times, blogs and traditional media will become mutually dependent on each other.
E-Mail: Saved by Mail.app.
When Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) came out on April 29, I eagerly installed it just a week or so later (quite a long wait, for me). I’ve enjoyed the new features, particularly Automator and Dashboard; Spotlight, I just haven’t been able to get into just yet. But the one thing that I really, really …
I’m not sure this helps make it up to them.
In today’s (Florida) Bradenton Herald, columnist Wade Tatangelo has an article about me and nancies.org, based on a phone interview that he did with me a week or so ago. He needed to do a piece about DMB playing there shortly, and I was, like, the twelfth-best thing to talking to a band member. Wade’s …
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