I love Macintosh, but I wouldn’t call myself a smug Macvangelist. If you like Windows, fine. If you like Ubuntu, also fine. I like Macintosh, it does what I need. I also like Nix servers (Apache is the finest webserver) and I’m fairly cognizant of how they work. At one point [...]

My bus broke down on Lake Shore Drive today. This happens once in a blue moon. Normally I have train breakdowns or my train hits people (seriously - three people in ten years, I’m cursed!). Today though, the bus just dies in the middle of the Drive. We manage to pull [...]

Dear crackhead who tried to hack into my network to print something.
I work in IT, I’m a rockstar, I’m a code monkey. My printer is a $2000 dollar POS I picked up for $100. It’s not a shitty laser printer, but a nice, happy toner cartridge beheamoth that can print a couple hundred pages [...]

Way back in 2003, Verisign made a DNS change that said ‘all fake .com and .net addresses point to THIS address, instead of nothing at all.’ And everyone got pissed off.

The saga of Leopard continues.

No idea why I was so resistant to this….

I wasn’t going to get Leopard.

When you look at your sheet, you may note that you have a BASE and an ADJ number by your skills and attributes. And if you’re like me, you’ve wondered how the hell that gets calculated. And you’ve also probably wondered what the hell am I rolling and how hard is it?
Here’s the [...]

I like to do things myself. It’s just the way I am. But I also like a quick way to see ‘what stupid things do I need to update?’ Thus I currently use Fantastico for 99% of my installations on this server. I just migrated the blog from my hand-hewn install [...]

Safari for Windows?