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Virus’d - The Follow-up
08.Feb.08 | 1 Comment
I mentioned a couple days ago that we had a small virus outbreak at the office this week. Thought I got it all cleaned up Wednesday night, but I ended up chasing it a bit more last night as well.
Tip: Turn off the Windows System Restore thingy before chasing viruses. Turns out ours got saved [...]
Getting Flash to Work With Prism in Linux
19.Jan.08 | 4 Comments
I’ve mentioned a few times that I like to use Mozilla’s Prism to run some of my web applications. Today I attempted to get Google Talk going in Prism on my little Linux Xubuntu laptop and hit some challenges.
Specifically, no Flash.
That’s odd. On my Windows machines Prism runs Flash stuff just fine. But hey, Linux [...]
Friday Night Highlights
11.Jan.08 | 3 Comments
A Friday night after 8 PM and I’m still sitting at work. I’ve been doing some server maintenance and “after hours” network maintenance — along with just generally killing time — while a steam cleaning crew works over the carpets. It was a big week here; I got to put down the keyboard and use [...]
Another Option for the Old Machine
02.Sep.07 | 5 Comments
Long time readers here have seen more than one article about my quest to to breath life into an old Thinkpad 600E laptop that I have. It is a Pentium 2 with 288MB ram and a 6GB disk — and I think it still has a fair amount of life in it. I [...]
… Another Run At Ubuntu
18.Jul.07 | 6 Comments
[this is a part 2 post, continued from "Bandwidth Monitoring and..." I'll assume you've read it]
When we last left our intrepid hero, he had just realized he was 7 years behind the curve and was infatuated with a nifty little tool called ntop. With this new knowledge, there was only one thing left to [...]
