August 2005

Jeff Middleton wrote on the SBS List: <blockquote><p>The breach of the levee isn’t going to be stopped.</p> <p>The projection is that within 12 hrs, 9… Read More »The Flooding of New Orleans

Perhaps the best new feature of Linux 2.6.13 is support for Execute-In-Place (XIP). <p>This allows linux to run directly from ROM or other block devices,… Read More »Execute-In-Place in Linux 2.6.13

The iTunes “Shuffle” or Randomize setting does a great job of randomizing. Which is exactly the problem. <p>Nobody wants a random distribution of music in… Read More »Randomize in Music Players

Having trouble getting rid of that dang malware on a Windows system? Does it keep starting up even though there are no obvious means by… Read More »Hidden Registry Entries

Today, Yahoo! and Verizon launched a $14.95 768/128 DSL package. According to the news story, SBC has a package twice as fast for the same… Read More »The Widening Digital Divide

Fuji Heavy Industries, by way of its Subaru brand, has developed a concept all-electric car using the newer, Lithium Ion batteries. They’re using a new… Read More »Subaru’s Electric Cars

Say you’ve misplaced the System Install CD for your Mac, and it was released after the box set of Panther you have was made. But… Read More »Resetting the root password in Mac OS X 10.3

When will the Homeland Insanity stop? At this point, 1-year olds and 11-month-olds are being kept from boarding airplanes because their names are on the… Read More »Very Small Terrorists Float

Copying a filesystem from one disk to another would seem like an easy thing to do, and the tools to do it should be included… Read More »Copying a Unix Filesystem

Well, it’s time to move my SQL Ledger over to my linux server (it’s been on my Mac laptop since I started with it) and… Read More »Converting an Existing System to RAID