Tagged with 'tech stuff'
Configuring a Windows server
I quite enjoyed reading Brent Ashley’s description of his travails when trying to set up a Windows server
When I finally get through a marathon session of setting up a Windows server “just so” to make my application work, it’s like I have created a finely balanced stack of Jenga blocks from which I back away slowly on tiptoe, praying it doesn’t tumble. I’ve get very little confidence that fixing anything will be an excercise in logic and deduction more than having to know some obscure incantation or uninstalling components wholesale and reinstalling and reconfiguring them.
Beware iCal and the word "monthly"
I noticed today that I'd missed an important due date. Cue internal dialogue:
"But I have that in iCal!"
"Well, that doesn't do any good if you ignore the alarms!"…
Enter versus Return
Despite the clunky name, I'm quite fond of my Natural Keyboard Pro. It's the only Microsoft product that I've been consistently happy with.
Now that the…
Me vs. perl, stupid perl
The issue here is long since been resolved. This is a rant, not really a plea for help.
I recently decided that I've been using mbox for too long, it was time…
You got some niche in your Eye
Sony's unbearably compelling CCG, played with the upcoming Playstation Eye peripheral - may be the most niche product ever conceived. A constructible deck card game that requires…
MySQL v. SQLite
Much of the Rails world is ga-ga for SQLite, but I've always had MySQL-something installed on my development machine for other reasons. Lately, though, those other…
Optimistic
I remember, when I was just a little bit younger, feeling that anything (jet packs, colonies on other planets, alien species) was possible; and not only possible, but…