Lisa was right, my first post in a long while would be a techie one about my new toy.  Sorry for having been so silent the last few months.  Lisa and I have been focused on riding our new tandem, and it’s been quite busy here at mooworld.
Dante is an Acer Aspire One netbook, one [...]

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With the backup server “Hinako” running a RAID array with 4 drives, I began to see how much better it is to have redundancy.  She was fitted with 4 250GB hard drives, and the plan was to hook her up to the network and perform periodic backup tasks.  That was done about a month ago.  [...]

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It turned out that one of the motherboards I got from the two computers I brought home from work was bad. Some sort of power input problem. My friend Eva and I had initially thought it may have been a bad power supply (it was new), but after having tested that on one [...]

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My DNS project has reached a new stage: an operational BIND 9 daemon running under OpenBSD 4.0. The machine that this is running in is a free Dell desktop computer I got from work when they parted out their systems during a company-wide upgrade programme. Thanks to the following website for the help:
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/dns/dns2.html
The [...]

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Last week, I was pleased to acquire a new computer for myself, while at the same time disposing of 2 old laptops that just couldn’t be pushed any farther. I sold what was left of the Apple iBook G3 for $50, and Lisa’s old Toshiba laptop for $260. This allowed me to pick [...]

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As far as GNU/Linux is concerned, I think this will be the year that major manufacturers will announce a change in marketing strategy. I believe that the majors will start rolling out customized versions of the more popular distributions in an attempt to capture market share. The selling line will be, “A new [...]

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