Archive for December, 2008

EightBall-Deluxe

After a few rounds of updates from Fedora 10 and RPM Fusion repositories, I would say this latest-and-greatest is shaping up very nicely and in a very short amount time.  It has been 10-months since I built my power workstation using Fedora 8, so a lot of software has been churned out since then.  The [...]

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Tank

Installed an additional Seagate SATA II drive today, this time a 1000GB drive advertised as 1TB, with a cost of only $99.  I recall paying $700 for my first hard disk: a 47-megabyte drive mounted on a SCSI card controller used by my Commodore Amiga 2000 in June 1988… so for comparatively slow storage with [...]

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MICROWAVESOFT.COM: End of Era

Tomorrow marks the expiration date of my 9-year old domain, microwavesoft.com.  It had served my purposes well back then, allowing me to explore and learn more about administering a server on the Internet.  Last year, I wanted to dispense with it when I purchased this domain, hurst-ri.us, to replace the .com with something more personal.  [...]

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