I saw the rings of Saturn
I broke out the telescope and set it up in the middle of the street. Thanks to a call to my sister I was able to zero in on Saturn. The nerd in me came all the way out tonight.
Everyone can rest easy
I’m not going to go crazy. Jenni let the Newegg credit card out of the vault and I ordered my parts.
I got everything in the previous post and
Western Digital 750GB SATA Hard Drive x2
and a new video card
EVGA GeForce 8800GTX
She really does need to hide that card from me.
Time to upgrade the PC
So a lightning strike near the house caused an electrical surge to occur in only the ethernet cables and speaker wires.
Before you even ask everything in the house is on a surge protector or UPS.
When the strike happened Percy and I were both on the front porch and we got a nice shock. It was [...]
Ramblings…
mySQL is now successfully installed on the laptop. I’ll be using it as my development machine from now on. I’m getting used to using a command line again. sudo is my new favorite word.
I ordered a Bluetooth GPS for my Blackberry today. I’ll never be lost again.
Got in contact with a few old friends on [...]
Linux Update
Tonight as Lost was on I managed to get Apache Server up and running under Ubuntu including setting file permissions. Tomorrow I’ll set up mySQL and get a local Wordpress site up and running.
I also got it setup to where I can connect to my work PC. This makes Ubuntu Linux a complete replacement [...]