“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – RFK
Posted in computers on Apr 15th, 2006
Around a week ago, I made a blog entry about the difficulties I encountered during my workstation’s upgrade from FC4 to FC5. With that bitter memory still fresh in my mind, I had expected to spend this entire weekend on my MythTV box’s upgrade. To my great surprise, the process went very smoothly, and took [...]
Posted in computers on Apr 6th, 2006
So I have upgraded my main desktop (Mercury) to Fedora Core 5 for about a week now, and it was one of the most painful upgrades I have ever done. For an officially released distribution, I expected the upgrade process to go like this: changing the repos to FC5 repos yum -y upgrade Recompile Binary [...]
Posted in computers on Mar 27th, 2006
In the last 8 months, I’ve started spending a significant amount of time in hotels (mostly Marriott, but occassionally Hilton). For reasons unbeknown to me, Marriott hotels continue to only provide ethernet based internet services in their rooms. I of course, being a techie road warrior, bought the Netgear WGR101 travel router so that I [...]
The warez scene has once again suffered some significant losses due to the recent multi-country crackdowns. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8419601/ Alleged Net pirates raided across globe 11-nation operation targets large-scale online distributors Updated: 1:00 p.m. ET June 30, 2005 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on large-scale Internet pirates who illegally distribute first-run movies, [...]
