This is a US-centric post, but anyways — November 7th is election day for the USA.
So, if that means you, please go on out and vote! :)
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
I don’t yet know what to make of all this.
By this, I mean the recent deal between Microsoft and Novell. (See google news for more.)
Continue reading ‘Novell and Microsoft, sitting in a tree… wait, what?’
So, every time you’ve written “LOL” into an instant message… did you actually just laugh out loud?
I won’t even ask about “ROFLMAO”…
Well, true to form, if you can have an issue with Ubuntu, I’ll have it.
Upon upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10 and rebooting… no more X-server.
It’s similar to issues I’ve seen before — it looks like a problem with the nvidia module not being found. I had no time to look further into it, but I’m imagining that it won’t be too hard to fix; probably a conflict between a newer kernel and whatever version of nvidia drivers I’ve installed. :(
This post’s title could lead to a long, insightful article about things we do which are counter-productive to our role as support techs.
Instead, it will be a link to an SNL sketch on YouTube; actually, if we can just not do any of the things in this video, we can go a long ways toward being a good support engineer.
Continue reading ‘What Not To Do in Tech Support’
Apple is making the shuffle even smaller.
That’s pretty cool; though I’d almost be afraid of losing it. For some perspective, be sure to check out the 7 stages of iPod ownership.
The Django Book looks promising. A free version of a forthcoming Django book — at the moment not too much is online, but more appears imminent.
I’ve heard mrBen say kind things about Django; my server does have Python available(even if I’ve been always using PHP based apps on it), so maybe I’ll see if I can get it running here, just for fun.
