06 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

DD-WRT & my new Asus RT-N16

I’ve haven’t used a manufacturer’s  firmware on my router in YEARS. Seriously since like 2003 or 2004. I started of using OpenWRT, which was the first one out there of this kind. It allowed you to run Linux on your Linksys router. This was freaking awesome. I used, loved it, and might of fried one or two [...]

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10 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

MySQL Backup with UTF-8 Data

I’ve never given character sets and encoding much time. I half way understand how it works, which for me is unusual. I normally have to understand things at a level that lets me talk to the subject fairly well. And sadly, this one I don’t. I don’t have the time or energy to really dive [...]

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08 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Google Chrome OS

I know I am not the first to write about it, but wow. I think everyone suspected they where going this direction, but now that it is actually here, it is pretty cool. Some people are meeting it with skeptism, some are happy. I am excited for the changes that they will bring. They have [...]

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18 February 2009 ~ 2 Comments

NFS and Subversion, it can work!

There are a lot of blogs and articles out there about SVN and NFS. You can search google and easily find a lot of information about them. But I never found anybody that felt like they found a definitive answer.
In my case I kept getting an error about not being able to find and available [...]

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19 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Blogging Software

I’m really torn about what to use for my blogging software. I’ve gone through many different ones, and ended up on b2evo. I like, I really do, but it is falling behind times, themes are not being developed for it, and I don’t really have the time to write the things I want for it.
At [...]

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23 December 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Thinking about ext4

Linux defiantly doesn’t have a lack of choice when it comes to file systems to choose form. I’ve use most of the them for my main file systems, currently I am running ext2 on /boot ext3 on /home and /, and using ext4 for my portage tree and distfiles on /usr/portage. In the past I [...]

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