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Well after using OSX for about 9 months I am finally moving back to a linux desktop. I will have more to post later after I get it all setup. PS Amarok Rocks! Eric Davis

After much thought and review of my time and skills right now I have decided to stop developing my own Rails powered blog and instead to contribute to the Typo blogging system. I still feel that Typo has too much built in, but it is a very good system with most of the features I [...]

I am now setting up a new Xen powered VPS server to host my websites. I will be using UnixShell and hope to be migrated over by tomorrow night. Stay tuned for any updates and please excuse the dust. Eric Davis

Have not had much time for any in depth hacking but I did get to get my Dell 700m running good again. It is running Ubuntu and has been having some issues with lockups recently. It would randomly lock up if it was running of the battery for some reason. I spent some time testing [...]

Had a good chunk of time today to hack some more on the Rails website at work. It was planned to go into a semi-public Beta state tomorrow, where we would allow a limited amount of users to start using it. But it looks like the graphics person will take awhile and then we have [...]

If you do automated backups (and you should if you do not…) it is a good idea to check on them every now and then. After living with my DSL running at about 1200/120 for the entire night I noticed my backup from last night was still running. I looked into it and found I [...]

Being sick really hampers the ability to hack anything bigger than a shell script. I am almost fully recovered but still having a hard time holding a lot in my head. I was able to put some code into my web/blog engine, I ended up using a plugin to setup the authentication schema. Once I [...]