Monthly Archives: August 2005

So today in the course of spellcheck, my email program Thunderbird came across the word fsck. While I wasn’t supprised to find that it didn’t think fsck was a word, I was supprised that it wanted to replace it with … Continue reading →

I really need to buy stock in Exxon and the rest. As I am reading a news article talking about how oil just crossed $67.00 a barrel I was wondering what Exxon’s stock is doing… what was even more interesting … Continue reading →

It’s official… Google has taken the next step to become the portal they claim they aren’t. Google Talk has been released to the world.

Slowly but surely the market is catching up. See: Existing Home Sales Decline As Rates Rise – Yahoo! News Sales of previously owned homes dropped 2.6 percent in July as mortgage rates crept up. … Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan … Continue reading →

I was on a conference call last week with a person who was looking for server colocation – specifically dedicated servers. After establishing his requirements and his desired pricing it was apparent to me that he was not a prospective … Continue reading →

My friend sent this to me before he rebooted the server. We installed FreeBSD 4.2 and Postfix on this computer ~4 years ago to use as an SMTP gateway for the application servers. The box was receintly rebooted after an … Continue reading →

This is exactly what happens when you have a group of public officials that have zero clue when it comes to computers defining policy… 13 high school students in the [...] state of Pennsylvania (the Kutztown 13 as they’re known) … Continue reading →

I use this a lot when I need/want to mount a new partition into a directory location that I have been previously been using (i.e. Vinum configuration in FreeBSD). What’s great for me is that it will copy file permissions … Continue reading →

So a search for “Max Clark” on the major search engines correctly puts me first again on all but Google – this is so annoying. Yahoo Google MSN Ask Jeeves

See: Home prices ‘extremely overvalued’ in 53 cities – Yahoo! News Single-family home prices are “extremely overvalued” in 53 cities that make up nearly a third of the overall U.S. housing market, putting them at high risk of price declines, … Continue reading →