Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Today I found that one of my domains was not displaying my website, but instead was showing visitors a list of Google AdWords sponsored links, and throwing malicious pop-under windows. I did a quick ping, nslookup and a whois query on it.
The ping replied from 66.45.237.187. Not my ...
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
This morning I decided to download and burn a copy of the latest Ubuntu Linux beta. We have an extra PC sitting up on the shelf next to the 2003 Server and I figured I'd use it for something. When I hit the 'Burn' button in Nero, I ...
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
FYI: I have been using the same AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) processor since early 2002.
For some, hell even MOST people, this would be perfectly sufficient. In fact, this PC has never really given me any grief. From a non-gaming standpoint, it will do anything I ask ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
Backup, backup and backup.
Unfortunatlely, keeping backups of everything can be quite expensive and logistically difficult when you have as much data as Michele and I had.
We lost approximately 400GB of stuff from two of our hard drives. Pictures, writings, software, music, ebooks, and various other files. Luckily my ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
I got my linux machine up and serving web pages tonight. This is not a huge milestone or anything, just something I've not had the resources for or taken the time to try before.
It's just one more thing that I can tell people "yeah, I can do that". ...
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