Homage to Icarus

I’d like to thank all of those who voted for Scott Brown. You’ve done the coura­geous thing by mak­ing sure the rest of the coun­try can­not have a health care sys­tem roughly equiv­a­lent to the one you already enjoy in Massachusetts.
Most peo­ple  —  ordi­nary peo­ple  —  would not allow them­selves to sim­ply ignore the mon­u­men­tal shame­ful­ness of that. They […]

Does any­one have any expe­ri­ences with Karmic on the white Dell Adamo?
Update: It seems pos­i­tive, at least com­pared with the cheaper MacBook Air where you have to fuss with ker­nel boot options and whatnot.

One of the bad ideas cur­rently infect­ing com­pa­nies in the tech­nol­ogy field is the LivePerson “chat with a sup­port per­son now” thing. This is a bad idea for mul­ti­ple reasons:

It’s a gigan­tic float­ing piece of garbage dis­tract­ing me from what­ever it is I’m try­ing to learn about your com­pany or it’s prod­ucts.
The rep­re­sen­ta­tives on the […]

I’ve spent the last cou­ple weeks mov­ing off of my exist­ing server(s) and into the cloud. Previously, I had been using my own Zimbra server, own SVN/trac install, and web­sites, albeit vir­tu­al­ized on a shared XEN server. The phys­i­cal server all this was run­ning on was some ancient second-hand single-core i386 Dell pow­eredge which never […]

After unpack­ing, rack­ing, and mount­ing the JBOD, I waited until the week­end had started before pow­er­ing down the server and installing the RAID card. Connected it all up, rebooted into the Adaptec BIOS, and con­fig­ured the 6x 1TB dri­ves into a RAID6 array. After that, I installed the RAID StorageManager off of Sun’s website, […]