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Getting old posts back in 2014 and the new Fuji X-T1
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…
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Well, that was unpleasant
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…
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Goals for 2014
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…
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pfSense performance on an HP T5720 Thin Client
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…
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Installing pfSense 2.1 on an HP T5720 thin client
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…
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Steambox vs. the Incumbants (Xbox One, PS4)
[stag_intro]I was very pleased when Valve announced Steam OS, Steam Box and their new controller. In a year of console refreshes it struck me as the right defensive manoeuvre for Valve. [/stag_intro] The computing power available in consoles far exceeds anything that people need. The move to general purpose x86 APUs to power the software…
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On to WordPress
I grew a bit frustrated with Octopress. Too much work to keep multiple development environments in sync. Then Apple broke my ruby installation in a recent Mountain Lion example. So I decided to bite the bullet and install WordPress. Not too sure how I feel about that. My original reasons to moving to Octopress was…
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Moving Away from Octopress
UPDATE: This is an archived post from my previous site running Octopress. You’ll notice that I did indeed move platforms. -Tai One of the interesting things I’ve noticed in my virtuous cycle of blogging and writing: I get into a definite funk. When I moved to Octopress (from Drupal), I had hoped that moving towards using…
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My thoughts on moving from UX to Product Management
So I stopped practicing UX at Kobo. Haven’t touched the stuff in over 9-months. I don’t even have Omnigraffle or any Adobe products installed. I don’t even know if I could graffle my way out of a wireframe. A bit of background Back around February, Kobo made some changes in the Product and Design were…