Category: General
Website Migration and Upgrade
Today finally saw me move off the little server in my room onto a DreamHost hosting plan. This was motivated by a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact I had a total of several weeks of downtime last year between the April tornadoes and various...
Server Upgrade
For the past month I have been working on migrating my server over onto a new Debian setup, utilizing virtual machines and other measures to try and increase security and efficiency. As a result of this upgrade, I will be writing articles on subjects such as * KVM - a...
Spaments (Spam Comments)
Because the number of comments that my site gets are low, I like to check each one individually. As a result, the majority of the comments are deleted, being simple spam. However, recently somebody came across my site and decided to promote a site which sells (or claims to sell)...
Return from my Hiatus
The past few weeks, I've not been particularly good about keeping up the regular posts on this site. Between Christmas, a lingering cold, studying for my next few classes, and then preparations for the upcoming semester's classes, I simply haven't gotten any articles written. However, you don't have to worry...
Resurrection of a Desktop - An Epic in Computer Repair
As my computer has aged, it has revealed a personality that is rather cranky - a personality it expresses with part failures. Unfortunately for me, a few days ago, the expression of my computer's nature lead it to prevent me from logging into to Fedora, prompting me to begin a...
Amarok Rescans Collection After Suspend
Recently I discovered that unlike my Gentoo configuration, and the Ubuntu installation that preceded the Gentoo install, I now can suspend my computer having installed Fedora. However, soon after I started doing this on a regular basis I noticed that Amarok was also regularly having to rescan my entire music...
Change the Word Completion Accept Key
OpenOffice has a helpful feature which suggests possible endings to a word that you are typing, something that can really come in handy if you have regular difficulty spelling the word. However, the default key to accept one of these suggestions is the Enter key. I find this to be...
Not Quite Today
Yesterday saw my first day at college, and find myself rather tired from it. As a result, I'm afraid no post today (again). However soon, hopefully tomorrow, I'll write a review on David Khan's, *The Code Breaker's*.
Motherboard Batteries Replaced (Finally)
Today I finally got around to replacing my motherboard batteries, on the Dell, the HP and my desktop. It took me a few months after first encountering problems on my desktop before I finally got around to it, but having to reset the clock every time I started or restarted...
New Switch
After almost two months, I have finally gotten around to replacing the final piece of computer equipment damaged in the lightning strike, my Gigabit switch. My new switch is a [Netgear ProSafe Gigabit Ethernet Desktop Switch](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122111). Although the old switch was also a Netgear, this is something of an upgrade,...
Podcasts Worth a Listen - Part 1
One of the easiest methods that I have found to efficently keep up with various topics is to listen to podcasts. The audio format of a podcast means that you can do tasks, like cleaning or yardwork, while still being able to catch up with news or learn about something....
Upgrading the Junk Computers
Last night I upgraded two old computers that I had on my hands, leaving me me [no time to write a post](/until-tomorrow.html), but here's the post about the upgrades, as promised. Given that both these machines were quite old, spending money just to upgrade them was out of the question....
Until Tomorrow
Today saw me quite busy, going from hard work outside to the upgrading of a couple of computers. Unfortunately, that leaves me out of time to write up a post for today - so until tomorrow
Introducing Two New Computers
Not long ago I acquired a couple of old computers that the orginial owners had decided no longer worked well enough - and to be sure these are rather old, single core, 32 bit machines (which could use a stick of RAM or two), but turned out to be perfectly...
My New Backup and Testing Server
A few weeks ago, a stray lightning bolt managed to create a power surge through our cable - and through that our network - damaging three unfortunate pieces of networking equipment. Two gigabit switches, a cat6 Ethernet cable, and a gigabit card fell before this power surge, of these one...
BotNet Attack Counter
In light of my current issues with [some botnet scanning me regularly](/antivirus-must.html) I have decided to add a block to the main page of my site, which will appear in the lower left side. Entitled "Vulnerability Scan Counter", I will enumerate the number of scans that my site has endured...
Give Me a Free Option Please
I really don't enjoy using Windows for general purpose things - I'll grant that some special applications require this, and I understand that many businesses use Windows as the only operating system on their network. But I really hate it when *on my computer* I have no choice but to...
EEE PC Fn Lock Tip
Use the key combination Fn and F11 to toggle the Fn lock on and off. I only brought this up because every once in a while, my netbook gets some of its keys locked in to the secondary set of keys, which are the ones printed in blue. This results...
mdadm tutorial is out
After some time, I finally have managed to clean up the mdadm software RAID array tutorial and get it posted. You can find it [here](/how-create-software-raid-array-linux-mdadm.html).
An Abundance of How-Tos Can Create a Scarcity
If you search for setting up an email server on Google, you'll find thousands of hits. Few of these actually tell you how to setup your local server to send and receive email directly, instead you'll find an abundance of guides on how to relay Postfix and Exim. Of course...