May 29, 2009
I’m building a custom Live CD for a friend, it’s basically an automated custom Linux installer. Anyhow, after the disc has been created, I needed some files on the ISO filesystem (not inside the squashfs filesystem). There’s a program for windows called Power ISO I think, that can do this, but I wanted to do [...]
May 22, 2009
I have been wanting to comment on my experience with the Eye-Fi after having owned it awhile now. I really love it. I still haven’t had time to get the Linux software working with it, which would solve all of my complaints, like automatic uploading to F-Spot in Linux. However, the device works perfectly, and [...]
May 22, 2009
The second pinball machine I ever owned was a Williams Indiana Jones. We had a good time with that game, but had it for about 5 years. Maggie wanted an Addams Family, so I traded it away. Well, not 2 or 3 months had gone by before Maggie told me she regretted that we had [...]
May 13, 2009
Looks like Nagios finally had someone come along to fork it; there’s a new project named Icinga which promises to have better developer involement and an improved web interface, among many other improvements. This is a welcome change, and has long been needed. For more information about why they forked and why it was necessary, [...]
May 5, 2009
Had a lot of things going on this past week or so, and wanted to comment on a bunch of them, but have been slammed. So here’s my thoughts, in no particular order.