Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 months since I updated. It’s plainly obvious at how much of a failure I am at blogging :P.
To be fair, I’ve been pretty busy as of late, working on some of the forums I manage. Not to mention the fact that I’ve actually been going outside [...]

Jack Thompson was wrong. Again. This time, however, the media has reported on it. This time, they’re actually making something of it instead of shoving it under the couch with the rest of the undesirable news. Score one for gamers everywhere.
Mere hours after the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus, Jack [...]

Jesus Christ on a Cracker.
We’re all quite horrified and sad over what happened at Virginia Tech on Monday, but this one incident is making everyone look over their shoulders. For instance, An article in the Washington Post begins with:
BOULDER, Colo. — A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that [...]

Apparently Palm will be delivering an open source Linux, linux platform for mobile devices later this year according to CEO Ed Colligan. The annoucement was made at Palm’s “Analyst Day” this morning and is being described as a “new foundation for Palm”. The platform will contain aspects of both Linux and Palm OS [...]

Kaspersky Lab gets credit for discovering (and possibly creating, according to one report) the first iPod virus.  That’s right, your iPod could catch a virus.  if it’s running Linux, linux, that is.
The virus, dubbed “Podloso” Is a proof-of-concept virus.  It infects all .elf format executable files on the iPod and displays a message of “You [...]

According to a Reuters Article Daylight Savings Time’s 3 week head start has had no noticeable effect on power consumption. Apparently the only thing it did to was to give a lot of crackberry addicts and computer users headaches and moments of blind panic as their clocks and watches toyed with their fragile, business-minded emotions. [...]

I’ve been tinkering around with advertisements on a few of my sites over the last week or so in an effort to generate some sort of income. The goal is to make enough per month to be able to afford a new dedicated server.
I decided to try out Text Link Ads as a form of [...]

This script will allow you to backup your MySQL databases relatively quickly. It’s designed for databases over 1GB in size, and works best on a fast hard drive, especially a RAID array. It will work for smaller databases, but this will probably provide little to no improvement over a standard mysqldump. [...]

Since I’ve been doing server administration for some pretty big websites over the past year or so, I’ve had to come up with some fairly unique backup solutions. I’ve found the best way involves either mounting a backup drive via NFS, or backing up to a secondary hard drive.
I’m currently working on cleaning up [...]

IBM has discovered a way to dramatically improve processor cooling without resorting to more complex or potentially hazardous solutions. Not to mention it won’t take years of research before it’s feasibly possible.
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