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More VM Fun

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Gabbing Gfuss, software, tech | No Comments »

So, I needed another server to test a new anti-virus solution but didn't have any hardware. But wait!! I have a P4 with 1Gb of memory. Through the power of CentOS 5 and logical volumes I also ...

Seven Hundred Sixty Eight Kilobytes of Heaven

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Gabbing Gfuss, opinion, tech | No Comments »

That's right. After what seems like a century (but more like 12 months) of dial-up, $8.95 per month Interweb access, I have made the move. I'm serious. Really. I have ADSL. (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line). ...

Compaq TC 1000

Friday, September 7th, 2007 Posted in gadgets, tech | 1 Comment »

A lady here at work was cleaning out her cube yesterday in order to prepare for her relocation to her home office. For whatever the reason may be (my charisma?? charm?? stylin' goat-tee??) people still insist on ...

Dear Adobe…

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Posted in General Blog, opinion, software | 1 Comment »

Hi Adobe. How are you doing today? Hope you are fine. I am NOT fine. I've been sitting here for about, oh, say 3 hours now. I'm trying to install Adobe CS3 Web Standard, and I'm ...

Exchange 2K7 - Last Call For Public Folders

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Posted in Gabbing Gfuss, software, tech | 1 Comment »

How sweet it is. I haven't been to many MS meetings in my life, however, I usually get a couple good info tips from them. Today I was at a local one sponsored by a consulting firm. ...

Anyone wanna donate to my cause?

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Posted in General Blog, hardware, software, tech | 1 Comment »

So I've bounced between Vista Ultimate and XP Pro on my Asus A8js laptop for some time now. It starts out fine with Vista, but after about a month, the hard drive is just constantly being written to (more ...

Yes, UAC, I want to play Purble Place

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in software, tech | No Comments »

So, I'm not saying that VMWare Server on a PIII 1400mhz with 2Gb of memory is fast, but it does at least let me get to Purble Place to build cakes in the cake factory. Haven't played Purble Place? ...

My Salvation Comes From R/C Tanks

Thursday, July 26th, 2007 Posted in opinion, software, tech | 2 Comments »

Well, since my XP Pro laptop is blue screening before the XP splash screen, it may be a good opportunity to blog about Ghost 4 Unix (g4u). Snazzy little tool (bootable CD) that enables you to create gzipped images ...

Not So Awesome; NSA & AT&T spying on net usage…

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Blogroll, news, opinion, tech | No Comments »

I always figured it'd happen eventually, let alone already be in place for years. An AT&T whistle blower is finally gaining some publicity with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The following 2 links are to stories I saw recently. ...

Test from the N770

Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in gadgets, hardware, mobile, software, tech | No Comments »

Just a test post from my new Nokia N770. (Thanks WOOT!) Not exactly super efficient, but it works. I'll be posting some specs, projects and mods.