2000-2009 A life in Nick As I listen to all the decade review podcasts and read the looking back websites, I wanted to do the same. My website obviously will only be interesting to those to know me and useful for looking back in 2019 when the internet is piped directly into my brain. My goal is to do this in sections and bulleted form. This makes it quicker and frankly my brain thinks that way: ...
With the synergy (ugh manager talk, sorry) of media and television I often find myself wanting to consume laying down or on the couch. Currently I slap a laptop on the HDMI or something similar and stream hulu for a few minutes. It works, but so does driving with your eyes closed. The geek in me wants to run Linux on my media center so I began looking for a low powered Nvidia Ion based platform. Bestbuy had one: ...
At work I often get asked what UNIX/Linux I use. Truth of the matter is I am an OS harlot :) I run NeXTStep and Rhapsody for fun. When I buy systems I force myself to use them for at least 3 days online to learn them better. Anyways, below is the questionnaire on how I pick a distro/OS Do you want to use learn Linux for work? CentOS or RHEL Do you want to actually learn the innards of Linux? Gentoo or Arch Do you want to use Linux for day-to-day usage? Ubuntu, Debian, or OpenSuSE Do you want to use UNIX for day-to-day usage? Buy a Mac and install macports Do you want to use linux for development of bleeding edge packages? Fedora or Foresight Do you want to learn UNIX, but hear a lot about Linux? FreeBSD is a better SysV learning platform Are you a paranoid security type? OpenBSD Did you buy a lot of old equipment on eBay or Craigslist and can’t stand the vendor OS? NetBSD Are the type of person that has flashing lights and fans on your computer? Do you want matching bling in software? Linux Mint RC Are you building a server for home? Debian Stable Are you building a file server to run NetApp out of town? OpenSolaris ZFS builds Are you building that same file server but Solaris packages make you want to poke your eyes out? Nexenta Are you doing embedded systems for a special project? NetBSD Building a wireless mesh network with captive portals? OpenBSD Or in the end you are as geeky as Nick and change OS like you change clothes Build a Vmware/Xen server and run them all
I was in a bit of a predicament for the past few months. I live in DC and the girlfriend lives in Richmond. Being a somewhat busy dude (60 hours a week the usual) I need my internet. Work provided me a AT&T ExpressCard GT Ultra which is worthless. I even purchased a cradlepoint in hopes that the card just sucked in Linux and Mac. Nope, it sucks with everything. My requirements for broadband were simple, no install wait and quick enough to stream a webex session while checking email. iPhone tethering was working, but I needed something more standard and supportable. Comcast and DSL were worthless as they wanted contracts and long lead times for install. Clearwire and Sprint 4g were my options to weigh out: ...
One of my favorite features with GNOME/KDE is the show desktop button. Expose is great, but I am always clicking around on the dock. This morning the RSS feeds answered my greivance and provided this tip from MacOSX Hints: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091109075034143 I wrapped the script and put an icon to the file. Here is the file if you’d like to download it for 10.5: Show Desktop.app