Idling User

I’ve been running MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo on my dev machines for a little while now without any major hangups. A few people have asked me how to get it emerged because they got hungup by the masks in Gentoo whic prevent them from emerging 4.1 and they gave up after the usual ~x86 […]

Yes, that dirty word. MS SQL Server. Never thought you’d hear that one here did you? Its been about 6 years since I’d last touched the beast, and of course I’m loving every minute of it.

I was handed a DB to work on that I should have been able to attach right […]

Our twins were born last month on Valentine’s Day, Zoë at 5lbs. 2oz. and Theodore at 6lbs. 9oz. Well, its more than a month later, and I’m blogging about it between feedings. Not only that but I’ve converted from Movable Type to WordPress. Oh, what fun that was! Really, it was. […]

It is apparent that significant cultural changes are occurring at Microsoft from many perspectives.

Scoble may not be brainwashed. Scoble recognizes that he’s getting every little bit of money squeezed out of him by Microsoft in their attempts to cut costs. He rationalizes the changes by suggesting that the other benefits still far outweigh […]

One reason why testing environments are important and why programmers shouldn’t be given access to production environments:

“… This is very bad indeed. 2500 linux servers had to be rebooted. I owe a lot of beers.”

(From "Journal of Matts")

Ouch! I think many of us have made similar mistakes… hopefully only once.

I like the sounds of this "Naked DSL" quite a bit. Basically, it cuts the phone company out of the loop making your service dependent solely on the ISP itself. Currently I have no reliance on a traditional phone company for my phone or internet service and I’d like to keep it that […]

Awesome news… except for that I already paid for TiVo HMO! Doesn’t bother me too much. It was well worth the price I paid to have it in advance of it becoming a stock TiVo service. I guess I’m an early adopter they capitalized on to supplement their development costs.

At some point, […]

If you press the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on a Google search for brute force you’ll end up at a pretty empty and strange 404 page on Microsoft’s Xbox site. Funny.

Ironically, Movable Type exhibited brute force while publishing last night’s post. It claimed it received an 500 error while pinging other’s trackback URLs. Not thinking it had actually worked, I tried again a little bit later. Little did I know, it actually had worked causing the trackback to be posted multiple times. […]

I’ve used too many companies’ products and services that do a lot, but do very little very well. Microsoft is a great example of this - being everything to everyone. Jennifer Rice wrote on this topic, being all things to all people, a topic that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. […]