[UPDATE 09/20/2014] I have completed Drupal migration. [UPDATE 09/28/2014] I’ve added my old Movable Type posts. Still a lot of cleansing that has to happen and relinking of images. [UPDATE 09/30/2014] I have cleansed and reformatted posts to Jan 2003. Still trying to figure out if I should bring in the comments. I have finally begun the arduous process […]
I don’t know how this sells ramen, but I’m not complaining.
Update [2014-05-16]: I updated some thoughts below on sound quality. [Update 2014-09-14]: Added a pretty big caveat to the Omni Surround. I am a bit nuts about external USB sound card / DAC /AMP combos. I’ve bought 3 from the same manufacturer. They are all part of the Sound Blaster line of sound cards from Creative. […]
My site has been running in some form since 2002. However, I have lost data multiple times and I have always meant to go back…get my old posts back on the web, but I never do. It doesn’t help that I keep changing blogging platforms. Movable Type, Textpattern, ModX, Tumblr, Octopress… I’ve committed to getting […]
So I had some server unpleasantness that I noticed after I posted my 2014 Goals post. The site just froze and logins were barely possible. I immediately SSH’d into the prgmr.com server, but was greeted by an extremely slow console. I actually had to access the VPS Xen configuration menu and do a hard shutdown […]
I’ve been thinking about 2014 and what, if any, goals I have. For the past few years, I don’t think I’ve been focusing much on me as a person–there were other more concrete things that I could latch on like my family or my career. They seemed right at the time; no ill feelings towards […]
[UPDATED – 2014-11-24]: I noticed that I had gotten the model wrong in the title of the article. Fixed that. One of the odd things as I have moved up the food chain into (product) management is that I don’t have the opportunity to work directly on the products that teams build. Keeping a software […]
Working pretty well so far. Uses about 25 Watts (with USB enabled). It handles unencrypted traffic flawlessly. OpenVPN connections (using the AMD GEODE LX encryption block) via my StrongVPN account tops out at about 30 Mbits per second down. It is not as fast as my Pentium-M based laptop that was my original router (it […]
Update [20140123]: I’ve made a few modifications to the boot flags. I admit it. I’m a big fan of technology and I have been always fascinated with the FOSS movement. When we renovated the house, I made sure to put Cat6e drops in every room. They terminate in my electrical closet in a Cisco […]
The computing power available in consoles far exceeds anything that people need. The move to general purpose x86 APUs to power the software experiences means that consoles will become an networked, general purpose device along side new smart TVs that every television manufacturer is pushing these days. In fact, it looks like XBox One will […]
