Don’t you hate crap? This morning I came into the office and there was an email from a customer that was having problems with their site which I’m hosting and webmastering for them. So I looked into it and something was completely stopping the perl script from completing. Since it uses perl and mysql, I figured I might as well try upgrading both of those. So I upgraded perl to 5.8.2 and mysql...

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     Ahhh. I just woke from the most glorious nap. I think napping should be mandatory for everyone. The nap is the most humbling of activities. It takes an average, grumpy, groggy lump and turns it into a refreshed, vibrant human going. The word nap is from Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian; akin to Old High German hnaffezen to doze.      Diana Krall looks like Ali...

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     So Linksys sends me a new wireless router today because the new one that I got for the office never worked right. The BEFW11S4 version 4 is a nice little shrunken alternative to it’s predecessors versions 1-3. The one I got would only work for about 2 hours, then completely die. On Sunday I finally got through to their online technical support and they told me to RMA it. So I got the replacement...

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     I moved the camera. Now it’s watching my back. No more sneaking up on me for you!      I need to find a USB A Male to A Male. Then I can hook my computers up to each other via USB 2.0 ports. Thereby connecting to the other machine at 480mb/s and then since the other machine is connected to the local network at 1gb/s, I would be fasterly connected to the network. But the...

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     So yesterday, we sold off a bunch of old computers to staff at the office. These things went like hotcakes. They were Pentium III 500MHz with 196-256MB SD RAM. They were anything but fancy. For some reason, the people in this building will not believe me that these machines aren’t good. They think I’m joking. There is a reason that the computer lab folder here. These computers weren’t...

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