Category Archives: Geek

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” –Carl Sagan

First!

Posted on 23 November 2010 by matthannan

And actually tapped out on my Droid. This is already way better than Blogger.… Read the rest

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Peppermint Ice is a Webapp-Based Linux Distro Without Excluding Native Apps

Posted on 22 July 2010 by matthannan

Peppermint Ice is a Webapp-Based Linux Distro Without Excluding Native Apps: “Linux: While the main idea behind ChromeOS is pretty cool, you may not want to limit yourself to only webapps. Pepprmint Ice is a Linux distribution that is based on webapp usage, but allows the installation of native apps.”… Read the rest

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Bored at werk…must be time for a blog update

Posted on 18 March 2010 by matthannan

Things have been slow at werk of late. Too slow.
I am used to being busy the whole time I am here: 7:30AM to 4PM.
But, lately, things have been just dead.
I won’t have anything to do until 8 or 9, if I get anything, and then I won’t have anything else to do the entire day.… Read the rest

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AndroBlogger

Posted on 10 March 2010 by matthannan

Jenny Lee and I are now packing our long awaited Android phones. We went with Motorola Droids on Verizon. I’m very happy so far, but there is a bit of a learning curve to it.

This post made via the AndroBlogger app on my Droid.… Read the rest

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Reinstalling XP

Posted on 4 March 2010 by matthannan

So, last night, as soon as I got home, I synced my bookmarks with Xmarks, took one last look around my XP install for docs/files that needed to be moved out to the server (Rosetta Stone Irish Level 1 final progress report and tracking.db!!!!)… Read the rest

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Moving on from phpBB3

Posted on 1 March 2010 by matthannan

Like the tag above says, this is not my server. I do keep my own server and there is a private message board on there that for EVER has been either phpBB2 or phpBB3. Well, due to a number of hard drive crashes, the use of that server is way down (I think I had all of 20 users at one point), which is just as well, I guess.… Read the rest

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lame server responding…

Posted on 1 March 2010 by matthannan

This is a part of an log message that you will see a ton if you ever run your own DNS server.

Feb 28 23:33:56 wilbur named[14270]: lame server resolving 'online.wsj.com' (in 'wsj.com'?): 63.240.101.1#53
Mar 1 00:03:59 wilbur named[14270]: lame server resolving 'online.wsj.com'… Read the rest

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Rebuilding from backup

Posted on 26 February 2010 by matthannan

So, the hard drive in my server died. It is now known to me that this hard drive has massive issues across the board and it will be the last Seagate drive that I buy for a good long time. I had to rebuild my server the last time because a Seagate drive let go.… Read the rest

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Buzz Drops Auto-Following

Posted on 14 February 2010 by matthannan

Buzz Drops Auto-Following, Won’t Automatically Connect to Google Services, Adds Better Disable – google buzz – Lifehacker http://ping.fm/JjWPs… Read the rest

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Posted on 14 February 2010 by matthannan

Google Continues Damage Control With More Buzz Security Updates – Buzz – Gizmodo http://ping.fm/zzjRE… Read the rest

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