It Exists Where I Say It Does

A few years back, I was working in a development shop using a source control package that insisted that all of the developers using it have their code in the same logical location. We settled on "D:\Code" for our standard and made sure everyone stuck too it, as changing the setting to anything else screwed up the rest of the team.

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.

7th Time's The Charm

Let me tell you something you might already know:  Windows Vista stink­s like las­t night's diapers.  I gave it a good college try, I really did. I ran it for something like 6 months.  I felt like this was the wave of the future, and I needed to learn how to love it.  But I ain't got that kind of love in me, so a couple weeks ago, I decided to make yet another go at a Linux desktop.

Same Old Hag In A Brand New Dress

It's been running a couple weeks without any massive outages, so I guess I should announce the obvious:  I've upgraded the website to Drupal 5.1.  And it really didn't hurt that much.