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Let's Make the Server Faster

I subscribe to the belief that constant monitoring for performance improvement is counter productive.  At the same time, I am old enough to remember when each adjustment made a difference to constantly scarce resources.  At irregular intervals which occur after I notice something slow in the page being rendered in the browser I wait for an [...]

March 21st, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wally: Automatic Wallpaper Changer

My thanks to W8 for this tip.
Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. Not only that, but it also works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Ubuntu users will be glad to know that it even comes [...]

February 21st, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Hacking an HP Media Vault Pro for RSYNC

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I have a number of HP Media Vault Pro, MV5150s, which I purchased to provide classroom storage at a low cost.  These are MV2, Series 2 Media Vault servers, and the instructions that follow are specific to this series only.  They work great, and I have begun to use them daily with all my [...]

January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

This can explain the use of your resume :-)

June 19th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Open Source Bridge

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with
open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open
source way. It’s not a typical technical conference.

Here’s what makes it different:

It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. This is the conference you’ve always wanted to attend.
Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared
community experiences [...]

June 7th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment