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FreeBSD, general, work
I like HP servers. True enough, I like Supermicro better, but big companies tend not to like Supermicro due to the fact you have to assemble them yourself, and there’s no real support / SLA agreement possible with them (for now – I hear it’s in the works). Most people in the ISP world know … Read More “HP has clue, but not quite enough (yet)” »
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A couple of years ago I discovered my dream home, it’s from Lockwood, an NZ based company specialised in wood based homes with some extraordinary designs, and build to last in even the harshest of climates. (the NZ building code is among the toughest in the world – I’ve read somewhere they need to stand … Read More “my dream house” »
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Okay, so recently my wife gave me a nice samsung flat screen HD ready 66cm TV, great thing, excellent picture, a joy to watch tv on. (specialy, when you’re addicted to CSI:* and Discovery Channel / National Geographic Channel – like we are). But, as the title of this post suggests, someone other then us … Read More “burglars suck” »
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VMWare announced a new beta of their Fusion product for Mac OS X, one of the more interesting features of this beta is the hardware 3D support. (DirectX 8.1 only for now). This is an interesting development to say the least. I’ve heard rumblings that that other Mac virtualisation company, Paralells, was working on a … Read More “vmware beta’s DirectX support in Fusion” »
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really do not match! Why do people take their bikes into a subway? The trains are overcrowded as it is in rush-hour, and every so many stops someone rams a bike into a compartment. It’s one of the many things I think the GVB (The company that does all of the public transport in Amsterdam) … Read More “Bikes and Subways” »
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It’s fairly well known that I run windows xp on my home computer (for my work I have a MacBook Pro). The only reason I run Windows XP on that thing ( it’s acctualy a triple boot system: Windows XP, FreeBSD 6.2 and Ubuntu) is for playing games. ( I’m still an avid Battlefield 2 … Read More “Why I won’t upgrade to Windows Vista” »
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Another post for fiddling around with wordpress. For one I can see why this thing is so popular, it has a very easy interface, and yet still very powerful if you read up on the specs of WP a bit. I think I’ll put my entire site in WP, and extend it from there. The … Read More “Just testing” »
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Half the world seems to blog using wordpress, and I was not… I was still editing a html file on my server whenever I felt like it. (which wasn’t that often).I decided to join the rank of converts and installed wordpress. For the time being, I’ll just fiddle with it some, and get it to … Read More “another convert” »