the san jose southwest terminals now have little benches with power outlets (both standard outlets as well as usb power outlets!) throughout the terminal. they also provide free wifi throughout the terminal which is how i’m blogging now while waiting for my flight. that is pretty cool.
speed of the connection is pretty good. [...]
in my heart, i know that selinux is a good thing. deep in my heart. really deep. while trying to debug some issues at work, i ran into an selinux issue and trying to understand how the whole system works is just a little frustrating to me. i just don’t get [...]
it has been irritating me for a while now that the del.icio.us add-on that i use in firefox has been buggy. not all of the tags that i have show up. what’s worse is that this appears to be a known issue and has been a known issue for weeks now! i [...]
so it’s now my…third week into the new job? i think that’s right. work has been pretty busy. it seems that there is more work that needs to be done than there are hours in the day. what concerns me is that my co-workers generally get into the office before i [...]
i’m blogging from the kripsy kreme in mountain view getting wifi courtesy of googlewifi. google, you sure know where to put your wifi hotspots. krispy kreme gets great coverage and i thank you for that. it’s too bad that krispy kreme is more accommodating to wireless users. i guess i’ll just [...]
i have booked tickets for cindy’s wedding at the end of this month. i have been trying to decide for a long time whether or not i should fly or drive down there. i think that the cost difference between the two still makes it more economical to drive, but the time sink [...]
i bit the bullet and purchased a license for the twonky server on the d-link dns-323 nas. i’ve tried other solutions, but none were as reliable as the twonky server, i’m sad to say. it really upsets me that there isn’t a good open source solution, but i guess we’re talking about a [...]
the problem with using the ps3 as my blu-ray player, though i suspect that this particular problem is not specific to just the ps3, is that i am currently splitting the signal between two displays. one display is my older samsung DLP tv. it’s a 720p/1080i capable tv player. the newer player [...]
i have installed the projector and screen. it has been a multi-day process. the screen came in earlier last week and so i asked paul to help me install it. the screen install could have gone a little more smoothly, but we managed to get it to install fine. the first [...]
i don’t know why the vmware registration service is not auto-starting on windows boot. the service is set to automatically start, but it just doesn’t. this causes vmware to fail to connect to its local console management screen which prevents me from starting up the virtual machine.
this link has an executable that will [...]