ugh, hard drive issues again…
my main storage drive failed on me and so it’s time now for me to start thinking about how i am going to solve my storage needs. how much storage is enough these days? i was surviving with around 500GB, but it was starting to feel pretty cramped. [...]
how do you debug javascript in IE (that’s internet explorer for those of you not in “the know”). =P well, if you have visual studio installed, it’ll come with an excellent script debugger, but that’s a lot of coin to drop just for some javascript debugging.
it turns out that microsoft allows you to [...]
this entry is really only gonna make sense to the super geeky of the geeks out there:
i only get junk mail sent to the root account of a box, so i thought i’d just soft link /dev/null to the root mailbox.
turns out that sendmail is super smart and sees that i did that and tells [...]
with the new wireless network at home in use full-time, i have found that while downloading the latest fedora core torrent (or any torrent for that matter) that the wireless network basically is gridlocked. other machines get sporadic access to the internet, if you are lucky.
the culprit? it turns out that the default [...]
it’s been a long time since i owned a PDA. the last (and first) PDA that i owned was a Palm V. i think that i may have even got it back in the 90s. is that possible? maybe it was early 2000. anyway, i used it a lot when [...]
i never really looked into nano much, but i decided to take a closer look at it and it turns out that it is a much improved text editor compared to pico.
syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, and the same usability that we all know and love from pico.
i love it.
yeah, yeah, i know, i just got back from a vacation from hawtlanta and all i’m doing is complaining about work…
i’ve figured out my problem. i will just add another 3GB of swap space. let’s see my code EAT ALL OF THAT RAM. stupid computers.
Mem: 775296k total, 293172k used, 482124k free, 17428k buffers
Swap: 4551544k total, [...]
Feb 28 12:01:52 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8273 (php)
this isn’t meaningful to non-techies, but i uhhhh, killed my dev server and used up all of the memory on the machine. ALL OF THE MEMORY. oops.
on the suggestion of my boss, i decided to repartition my work laptop hard drive. i got this laptop from him and he had a linux partition on the laptop as well as a windows one. the linux partition (which i didn’t have access to) was taking up valuable porn work-related hard drive [...]
i’m setting up a linux box right now and this will be the first time that i’ve set up a box and updated it with some kind of automatic updating program. i’m using yum and it’s pretty slick. not very exciting to look at, but it seems to do the job well enough. [...]