I had one bad stick of DDR3-1333 among the parts I recently used to build my new Linux workstation. That bad stick of RAM had me running many, many passes of MemTest86. I was surprised to see that MemTest86 was...
Read the post →The automated backup strategy that I’ve been using for the past three or four years was very solid, and it served me very well. I was using rdiff-backup to perform daily backups of my entire home directory to local storage,...
Read the post →My friend Brian decided that he wants to build his own arcade cabinet. He’s been poking around on Craigslist for a couple of weeks trying to find a decent shell to rebuild. He finally found one that he liked, so...
Read the post →I haven’t had a chance to update zsh-dwim in quite a while. I had a tiny spark of inspiration for a new transformation tonight, so I went ahead and implemented it. I also picked two other easy ideas off of...
Read the post →Update: Everything arrived. I was a little worried about the push buttons. The USPS had them marked as delivered on Friday, but they weren’t in the mailbox until Monday. Other than that, everything arrived without incident. I just wish I...
Read the post →A few weeks ago I decided on precisely how I was going to implement my own self-hosted cloud storage, and I even wrote up a blog entry describing what I was planning to do. I discovered Seafile the very next...
Read the post →Late last year, I went shopping with my friend Brian to help him pick out a mechanical keyboard. We tried our local Fry’s, but they didn’t have a very good selection, so we hopped on 75 and drove down to...
Read the post →I just had the displeasure of ordering four SATA hard drives. They’re going to find a home in a 1U server that I’m planning to purchase in the next couple of weeks. I ordered the hard drives early because I...
Read the post →
