Category Archives: computers

I was in the market for a new laptop. My old one was over 3 years old, and I was starting to feel that old familiar tug to get a new one. I have been going back and forth on … Continue reading →

And, my wrist hurts. It’s just regular pain. Nothing crazy. But it occurred to me, how very real Carpal Tunnel is for people in my field. How many readers here, have either carpal tunnel, or some for my hand/wrist/arm pain … Continue reading →

I have been fiddling with my environment again. I am usually in a constant search for new programs that might change the way I work. I end up trying a lot of software and then dismissing it as not meeting … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I was culling my rss reader. I try to do this on a regular basis for a couple of reasons. The first is that my tech interests change over time. For a while I might … Continue reading →

I installed the latest release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 today. I was lucky enough to have gotten a hold of a w1100z Sun Workstation donated by a buddy. The install didn’t go as smooth as I would have hoped. Initially the … Continue reading →

Just in the interest of standing on the shoulders of Patrick…and a bunch of other people… npowell@delilah:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 324 ls 266 cd 243 clear 105 svn 100 ssh 80 vi 58 sudo 24 cp … Continue reading →

I use emacs for the majority of my editing, however I use vim to edit config files. Most distributions will have a global vimrc that sets up vim to remember the last place it was in a file, and put … Continue reading →

For a long time now I have been addicted to using C-r (control-r) to do a reverse search in the terminal. If you haven’t done this, do it, it’s a huge time saver. Just hit C-r and start typing something … Continue reading →

Q: Can I have more English documentations? A: Now I’m working for it.

There are all kinds of ways to share storage on a network. AoE is one of them. AoE couldn’t be easier to set up. On the machine that will export a partition or hard drive, install vbladed. I installed it … Continue reading →