the gospel of simplicity
I had an interesting thought tonight. “Lord, I want to join the battle.” I love working with youth, talking to them, helping them out the best I can. The thing… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
simpsons treehouse of horror buying guide
Note: I found this in my drafts of old posts, and this one never got published. I wrote it in October of 2011, so the list may have changed a… Read more »
gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping
I regularly use monit to monitor services and restart them if needed (and possible). An issue I’ve run into though with Gentoo is that openrc doesn’t act as I expect… Read more »
freebsd, quick deployments, shell scripts
At work, I support three operating systems right now for ourselves and our clients: Gentoo, Ubuntu and CentOS. I really like the first two, and I’m not really fond of… Read more »
freebsd
I’ve started looking at FreeBSD at work this week, because I was reading some blog posts about how MySQL performs well on a combination of that and ZFS together. I… Read more »
what i’m reading: “real boys”
Summer is rough for me. I take fewer classes, I have lots more free time, and things are generally a lot less unstructured. This means my life is full of… Read more »
rebooting my mini-itx
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on much anything computer-related as a hobby. Things have changed quite a lot in the past year. I moved to a much… Read more »
working with teenagers: adults are boring
I have often lamented in life that adults suck, pure and simple. What I’m realizing as I grow older (biologically, at least) is that adults have innate perspectives that just… Read more »
multimedia reference guide: x264
It seems a little weird to me to post something on my blog that I already posted on our blog at work, but whatever. I figured it’d get more visibility… Read more »
working with teenagers: not listening
I noticed something terrible about myself recently. I’m not always a good listener. Actually, now that I think about it … make that two things — I’m acting like an… Read more »