Posts by scottk:
Couple of updates
Spent some time messing around with the look and feel of the site tonight. While I like the pool theme I was googling something and ran across someone else using the same theme. While I understand it’s a cool theme and open for general use, the same principals of clothes shopping apply. Just like you […]
MacBooks
So we’re supposed to get MacBook Pros when we have our laptop upgrades later this year. Right now I’m typing on a Dell Latitude D800 which hasn’t been to shabby of a laptop. If it wasn’t for the fact that it weighed a brick and a half (olde english measurement) and was as wide as […]
Who turned out the lights?
We had one of our racks at the hosting facility lose power last night. I had thought everything was setup so that we had redundant power supplies and this would not be a problem, apparently that was not the case. Do to our switchover from some old hardware to new hardware the rack that went […]
basic ssh proxy
So here’s the problem I connect from home which puts me into the network on subnet A which let’s me talk to subnet B. Subnet B can talk to production servers on subnet C but connections from subnet A cannot go directly to subnet C. Well this puts me in a pickle as I really […]
backup that module list
One of the biggest pains in the ass for me is upgrading perl manually and trying to get all the modules back in. I found this handy dandy post which shows off the following method. # Backup your current module list perl -MCPAN -e autobundle # That will create a file with a name like […]
System Memory over the years
Year Low End High End Representative Systems 1975 1K 4K Altair (Apr 1975: 1K) 1978 4K 16K Apple II (Jun 1977: 4K) 1981 16K 64K PC (Aug 1981: 16K), Commodore 64 (1982) 1984 64K 256K Macintosh (Jan 1984: 128K), Amiga 1000 (1985: 256K) 1987 256K 1M Amiga 500 (1987: 512K), Compaq Deskpro, IBM PS/2 1990 […]