Monthly Archives: July 2008

Clusterf*ck: Mass Virtualization

Sometime after I get back to Kentucky, I’m thinking of building a server for running virtual machines using VMware Server 2.0. The idea is to virtualize as many of my machines as possible.  Virtual servers, in particular, benefit from this … Continue reading

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I'm gonna take the power (brick) back

So, I accidentally left my laptop’s power brick at work on Friday, and I had to survive the weekend on a single charge.  I came into work early today to charge my laptop, and no one else is here yet…

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Poster Session

Today I had my “Poster Session” at VMware.  All interns are expected to create a poster showcasing what they had done over the summer, so mine focused mostly on VDI and VDM.  I was suprised at the attention that my … Continue reading

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SRSLY… WTF?

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Twitter Spam?

In the last couple of hours, I’ve gotten several notification emails from Twitter that person X was now following me.  As far as I can tell, it has to be some sort of spam or bot.  All of the usernames … Continue reading

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I said text ads only! WTF?

So, I recently added Google ads to my site, but even though I specifically checked the option to only enable Google’s text ads, I still get the much more annoying image ads from time to time.  What gives?

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Deluge 1.0 RC3

The third release candidate is now available and has been uploaded to my repository.  The changelog can be viewed here. Notable changes in this release include a new Blocklist plugin and upstream bugfixes from libtorrent.

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The End of an Error

We’re now at just under 6 months left in George Bush’s term in office (you may have noticed the countdown widget to the right).  I was only 13 years old when W was elected, and at the time, I didn’t … Continue reading

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Tweet

So, I finally decided to check out what this Twitter thing was all about.  Basically, it’s a way of posting what you’re up to, and it’s easily exported to other places online, such as Facebook or blogs (see my Twitter … Continue reading

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Virtualizing the Source Engine

Today I played around with a recent experimental build of VMware Workstation 6.5.  I installed Steam and downloaded Counter Strike: Source and Half Life 2: Lost Coast (Two apps with benchmarking utilities). CS:S ran pretty well at the default settings, … Continue reading

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