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I put my NetBook in suspend mode yesterday evening so I could take it home and finish some work on compiling.  Yeah now I remember why graphical logins suck fanny.
The graphical login is broken and just keeps reloading and reloading and reloading and reloading… well you get the idea.
Needless to say, I’m reformatting again, because [...]

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Living in a linux desktop

Monday, August 10th, 2009

So I’m getting along fairly well with my Netbook and while I understand that I’m not going to find ready made binaries and happy little plugins for everything I would like. I’m also  remembering what a pain some things can be when installing from source.
My latest adventure has been installing Pidgin’s OTR plugin.  I thought [...]

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Linux, my NetBook and me

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I’m at an impass. I’m pleased with the way my NetBook is working with OpenGEU an yet I’m frustrated at the same time.  This is the first time in a VERY VERY long time that I’ve used Linux for a desktop.  It’s really come a long way since then and it’s very usable.  The problem [...]

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NetBooks and Operating Systems

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I was a copy-cat a few months ago and bought a NetBook.  I got the ASUS EeePC 901.  it has a solid state hard drive and it’s about the size of a large paperback.  I love it and it worked great for me when I went to a SANS training at the RSA Conference in [...]

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Things are going now

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

There are a lot more cars here now! Great mix of Detroit Muscle and Tuners.

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Early morning at the Car Show

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

This is going to be a great time! Come out to LCC’s West Campus on Mt. Hope and join the fun!

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Blogging from my iPhone

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

So I got my iPhone and have been using it rather religiously, but now life just hot so much easier! I don’t even need my laptop to blog anymore! Wordpress released an app on the apple app store. So cool!
Now I’ll have no reason to not blog more!
Cheers!

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Random Post from a Category

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

This is the other stab in the dark for a WordPress Plug-in.
This one pulls a Random Post from a Specific Category, just feed it the Category ID.
Download the file from here.

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Crack at a WordPress Plug-in

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The plug-in displays 4 posts from a specific category.
The plug-in needs 3 parameters or you could just modify the code to not use them.
Usage: get_me_4_from_cat($category_id, $postmeta_key, $postmeta_value);
This was written to get 4 random events from a specific post category.
The addition of the postmeta variables enables an additional check for the event since posts weren’t [...]

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EM01b Websensor – revisited

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I’m still not 100% pleased with this little thing.
It seems to work most of the time, but I’m still seeing random points where it just won’t talk to the Nagios server. If there was a pattern that’d be one thing I could track down the cause. I know it has to be there, but [...]

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