all this and a dongle, too!
I finally got my usb wireless nic working in Gentoo. The solution? Emerge the stable packages with a good kernel. It’s always the situation you try last that works. Even… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
a week of wireless
I’ve been playing a lot with wireless this week. I remembered we had a D-Link USB wireless thing at work, so I plugged it in my desktop and played around… Read more »
another ipod convert
That’s right, I’ve joined the masses. I bought an ipod nano (4gb) the other day, and I gotta say, I’m hooked. The thing that I actually like the most about… Read more »
my new discount amd64 box
I just placed the order on newegg.com. Not a bad deal, methinks. For $250 I got a decent amd64 chip, a slightly older asus mobo, and a gig of ram…. Read more »
another game, another lost weekend
I spent most of last weekend playing one of my favorite computer games: Knights of the Old Republic II. Turning to the dark side is a hobby of mine. It’s… Read more »
TV overscans and CD soundtracks
What do overscans and soundtracks have to do with each other? Not a thing, really. But, they are two good things that happened to me on Sunday. The first one… Read more »
gotta love gentoo
I was listening to some music I was streaming from my box at home to here at work as I setup some stuff, and while I was compiling an upgrade… Read more »
ghosts in the machine
I was talking to my friend tonight about my random problems with the database at work. There are just random things that happen to it, that we cannot figure out… Read more »
death to sql server (part 2)
This one isn’t a rant, just another head-scratching-that’s-an-odd-thing-to-do kind of post. One of the main scripts was running slow tonight that gets hit on a regular basis, and we couldn’t… Read more »
death to sql server (part 1)
Just for a background .. anyone who has talked to me for more than 30 seconds about databases knows that I hate Microsoft SQL Server with a passion. The real… Read more »