Archive for July, 2004

Small and Cool about the Small

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

Sheila
A-Stray’s Redheaded Ramblings
: “it was the only newspaper in the
entire country to report the bombing of Pearl Harbor, on Sunday, Dec. 7,
1941 - on the day it actually happened.”

HTTP Servers Abound

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

Larry
Osterman
: “This was as a part of a company-wide initiative to remove
all home-brewed HTTP servers (and there were several) and replace them
with a single server. The thinking was that having a half dozen HTTP
servers in the system was a bad idea, because each of them was a
potential attack vector. Now with a single server, we have the
ability to roll out fixes in a single common location.”

Enjoying Portland

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I got into Portland on Saturday night, and spent Sunday roaming around
with Yeuhi and his friends.
We checked out the Japanese Garden, which was just great. Today, I’m hanging around the hotel lobby, catching up on some work.

Macworld Boston

Monday, July 12th, 2004

I’m heading up to Macworld
Boston tomorrow night. You can catch my talk, P254: 
Getting Online Anywhere with a Cell Phone
, Thursday at 2pm.

Russell’s Linux Rescue Adventures

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Russell
Beattie
: “Okay, but there was a tiny problem: The NTFS partition has
40GB available, but the disk image is only 30GB…”

Great stuff in
this post–Russell goes on to use ntfsresize to solve the problem. Damn!
If I had known about that utility a couple weeks ago, I would not have
spent so much time screwing around with Ghost and Drive Image.

Actius Repaved

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

What a weekend. Not only did I relax a lot, and get in a great hike, but I did some repaving. A while back, I wrote about how my Actius would not boot from the CD-ROM drive that it came with. Turns out a call to tech support solved the problem–the CD-ROM drive that they shipped me does not play well with the Actius, so they cross-shipped me a new one. It took a lot longer than it should have, but I got it a few days ago, and that meant I could boot up all the operating systems CDs I wanted to to my heart’s content.

Long Pond and Ell Pond

Sunday, July 4th, 2004


Joan and I took a hike through the Long Pond and Ell
Pond
hiking areas. Although Rhode Island is full of beautiful
places, these are among the best I’ve seen. You can see a complete set
of pictures I took
at this
gallery
, and I’ve also posted a few of the photos at my TextAmerica moblog.