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The joys of holiday technical support! 1: Number of flawless hard drive replacements on the Dimension 4100 3: Trips to Dell’s support site for drivers and manuals 21: Viruses detected on the old hard drive 15: Different kinds of viruses More than 20: installations of America Online, ranging from the 5.x to the 9.x series. [...]

I know, only like two of you care about all this geekery. In general, my life is going well. Megan and I are having a lot of fun, as always. We’re gearing up to send invitations out for our holiday party on the 30th. (Save the date, if you’re reading…) My job at ALTERThought has [...]

Before We Begin The point of this lesson is to get you on your feet in an X environment; the basis of any workstation. You’ll get an introduction to the ports system and see what it’s like to use it. I include a couple of tips for ordering your port installation and a few examples [...]

Before We Get Started First, the documentation for FreeBSD is absolutely fabulous. If you are Googling something about FreeBSD, your heart will sing when one of the links is from the handbook, because the answer will soon be in your grasp. Second, Dru Lavigne’s FreeBSD series is another fantastic resources. I highly recommend reading those [...]

that you cannot e-mail an AOL member if you run your own mailserver? It doesn’t even go to the bit bucket, it generates a bounce e-mail! Unbelievable. I thought the walled garden was already dead?

java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver Before you drive yourself batty, double check your JDBC URL if you are trying to use Hibernate. I would have spent another day trying to debug this one if I hadn’t spent a similar day last year.

First, I’ve obviously upgraded to a new theme. Hopefully your collective memory of the unfortunate notepad theme will now be duly erased. Second, I’ve transfered the account that I run the blog off of at TextDrive. Service may be interrupted at some point as the DNS records update, although I have to admit, I don’t [...]