My UNIX Adventure Timeline

1984 I was born grunting binary, ugh and ahh. Parents knew no better. 1989 Parents finally realize it was binary and buy me a C64 to conquer Frogger. Fall in love with CLI 1994 Dad brings home a AST Advantage! Plus 486 DX/33. I fall in love with Prodigy and the internet becomes my playground. 1995 Dad buys Windows 95 upgrade and installs on the beloved AST. I throw up in my mouth. ...

September 21, 2006 · 8 min · Nick

Rocks Cluster

Rocks Cluster rocks my socks. After battling with their FTP to grab the latest ISO, I was finally able to do a VMWare Install of version 4.2. The key for doing a VMWare install in workstation 5.5 was the following points: Create a VMWare Team Hard Drive sizes must be larger than 20 GiB Memory must be more than 640 MiB Remove the sound card and floppy In the vmware team assign all the machines to VLAN1 The Frontend must have 2 NIC, assign them both to VLAN1 till the install is done at which point you can then bridge the public interface or host-only Boot PXE when the frontend is up for the clients and all will install Let me state, Rocks is simply the best cluster software I have had the pleasure of using. Super High Five to the developers!

September 19, 2006 · 1 min · Nick

Electricity makes me giggle

And tingly for that matter. I was on the phone last night with Kade when I began to troubleshoot the broken TV. Let me walk you through this slowly so you can view the problems: 1.) Had just finished drinking my water – Hands moist 2.) TV has problems from electrical problems. The tube wasn’t initializing well. – Something isn’t passing power 3.) I touched the plug – Now the power is passing ...

September 10, 2006 · 1 min · Nick

DoD Security? Is that like pretty ugly?

I can’t take you seriously… I have to say it because it bugs the crap out of me! How can I take the DoD seriously for security matters when I type this into Netscape 7.02? My other option of course was IE 6.0sp1. If I wanted to use a modern, standards based, and secure browser I would need to go home. Let me list below the number of vulnerabilities my approved browser has: ...

August 4, 2006 · 7 min · Nick

Bought a Mini Cooper

I will post some pictures soon promise!! So far I love the car…love is a strong word…and that would be the one to fit. Everywhere I go with it people stop and talk to me. Not that I am shooting for a popularity contest but rather I enjoy being able to talk to people. What I have noticed is that when I let the Holy Spirit inside listen instead of me, people feel the desire to talk. For that is very nifty to see smiles and waves. The bad is that there are a few little cosmetic things to fix, nothing big, and the steering column clicks at low speeds in parking lots. Purely cosmetic crap. but still… ...

August 1, 2006 · 3 min · Nick