I try my best to not pass judgement on the various distributions of Linux – but CentOS always ends up rubbing me wrong.
For instance, why does it need 10%+ more RAM than everything else- just to sit and idle? What’s so magical if you are running the same stuff? It’s not like one is compiled with g...
I considered changing this sites’ platform for the first time in a decade.
Up until 2006, I ran my own homebrew CMS. Many of my links and older posts still reference this, and I have many, many shims that still hide under the works- even if things such as my software have been unavailable for ne...
Everything, and I mean everything is either on the “cloud”, moving to the “cloud”, or promoting the entire concept- even if it has nothing to do with it. As evidenced by Kodos (from way back when the Simpsons was still watchable):
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One of the problems plaguing our technology-biased society is that electronics have become disposable. We are at a point that anyone who has a smartphone that is more than a year or two old is viewed poorly in certain circles. I do not run with that crowd.
You may not be aware that the Nexus 4 i...
I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a big fan of the Open Source movement- I’ve built a career out of supporting “free” software. For a brief flash in the pan of the late 90s and early 2000s, most technology based corporations saw the possible future of Linux, and embraced it wholly. It’s not qui...
I don’t really have much of interest to share at the moment- we’ve got at least 8” of fresh powder outside, so no work has commenced on the various car projects this weekend.
I’ve been following DragonFlyBSD from the sidelines for nearly a decade. It’s a fork of FreeBSD 4, when Matt Dillon decid...