Brian Jepson’s Weblog

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.”

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.”

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
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.

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.

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.