Moved to Drupal 6.17

I just moved this site to Drupal 6.17 which, as we all know, is .95 better than Drupal 5.22. Most of the changes are in the background, so you should see much of a difference. In fact, if you do see a change, do let me know, as that was probably not intentional.

Once More Into the Breach

Having found myself with a bit of unexpected time on my hands, I am in the process of building a new Linux server for professional development purposes. Much like the rest of the world, I have chosen Ubuntu 10.04 as the core of this new system.

Cool Uses for Dropbox

DropBox is a cool free service that allows you to synchronize 2 Gigs of data on your PC with the cloud, and with other PCs running under your DropBox account. Two gigs is nice, but most of us have more than that hanging off our key ring.

Scroogernomics

There's a new book out called Scroogernomics that explains very well one of the things I hate most about the upcoming holiday season: Gift giving is extremely wasteful.

Brain Lint 112809

Installing PHP on a Windows server is a labor of love. Unfortunately, I'm not a great fan of that kind of labor.

SATA and IDE, Living Together

I'm sure every other nerd in the world knew this, but none of them posted it. I spent a good long time last night figuring out how to add a SATA hard drive (with an IDE adapter) to a PC already running an IDE HD. I played with jumper setting, cable order and such. None of that crap matters. The ancient Chinese secret is ... put them on separate cables.

The Water Is Still Too Cold

For some reason, despite the fact that I still had way too much to do, I got the urge to poke my toe ever so gently into the Linux pool once again. Will I ever learn?

This time, my interest was piqued by an app/distro/emulater-type thingy called andLinux. It's a sort like WINE for Linux, allowing you install this thing in Windows, and then run your favorite Linux apps.