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George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.

My only regret is that I passed on a chance to see him live. continue reading »

If thoughts could write blog posts, this blog would be updated every 15 minutes with relevant technological goodness. Unfortunately for me, this isn’t the case; at least not yet. I have to find time, sit down in front of my MacBook Pro (which I got off of eBay and am very happy with except for the fact that I overpaid), and try to recall what happened to me during the day. This kind of situation is not very common for me. continue reading »

If you have a SharePoint 2.0 server and you have installed SharePoint Services 2.0 SP3, you may have notices a few issues. Among the several issues with the service part there are two which stand out.

1. Data view web parts cause users with access to SharePoint sites to be denied access. When users attempt to access sites, they receive an authentication prompt, which fails after being filled out with correct information. The quick workaround for this issue is adding users to the local Administrators group. This was the best (so to speak) solution to this problem before a hotfix was released.

2. The edit in datasheet View feature in lists does not work correctly. It redirects the users back to the standard view. The fix for this issue was quickly released by the community, and later corrected by Microsoft via a hotfix. continue reading »

As of today at 4:30PM EST, this blog is running on the second release candidate of WordPress 2.5. On the 26th of this month, Matt Mullenweg posted a short screencast of WP 2.5’s new features. This screencast inspired me to give the new version a try. On a side note, I hope Matt gets better in his dental situation (watch the screencast for more info). continue reading »

First things first–the transfer is complete. This’ll be the domain I use from now on. I’ve setup the server myself. The specs are fairly respectable and the pipe is good. I’ll be continually playing with my LAMP and OS setup in order to achieve maximum performance with what I have. continue reading »

Ever since 1995 I have been a user of Windows. It all started with my mother bringing a Windows 95 computer into the house. Long story short: I know Windows inside out. I wasn’t satisfied with this. I wanted more toys. There is only so deep you can go with Windows. The innards of the operating system are always hidden from you; you cannot change them in any sensible and easy way. What’s in the NT kernel? Can I read the source code? Legally? Nope, I cannot. continue reading »

I love IPCop. It’s great! And yet, I’m not using it because electricity bills tend to come around and show me the value of a dollar. It’s this sort of lose-lose situation where you can’t run a distro like IPCop on a proper tower machine and at the same time, you can’t buy a smaller machine because the truly small ones cost a fortune.

So I’m back to my trusty old [insert brand] router. I don’t love it, but I have to use it.