Wow... I posted a lot today. (Grin. Pat on the head). IN other news, I'll be putting up some archive pages in the near future. I've got news entries dating back to 2000. Wow! And that doesn't include the stuff that happened when I didn't drive the news section of …

Sorry for the recent spat of silence. Things have been a bit busy on this end. I'll try to keep this site more up to date with the wonderful, the weird, and the sublime events of my life and times. :)

Honestly, with the business practices that Symantec and McAfee have shown, it's no wonder viruses and trojans infect so many people: getting the software updated can be even more of a pain in the butt than getting infected Ed Foster wrote a pirce about this, and has a poll for …

We've printed over 1,300 pages on our laser printer since I picked it up earlier this year. Pretty amazing when you think about it, since it's all on the original short-fill toner cartridge using toner saver mode. The printer is a Samsung ML-1710, and other than dimming the lights …

I stumbled upon this little trick while looking for other means to have processes come online after a reboot. Apparently you can have an entry in a users crontab which looks like this:

@reboot /your/command/goes/here which will run the command when the machine reboots, as that user …