Monthly Archives: June 2007

blog upgrade

hey, just upgraded to the latest WordPress on a new server and a new OS. Lots of things broke… like the last theme I had. I’ll post more about the hiccups that happened when I have more time tomorrow. Please … Continue reading

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Trendier

Trendier Originally uploaded by Reid Harris Cooper This Perrier ad that I see on the BART is growing on me

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Bazaar needs to step it up, Look at Mercurial

At work we use Bazaar. It gets the job done, but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it. Besides the obvious fact that Bzr is a Distributed RCS, I cannot distinguish or compare it to any other … Continue reading

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Awesome – Nvidia Tesla

What awesome technology! Read more about it on their site!

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Uh, you forgot one… Adobe

This interesting article compares the font rendering technology of Microsoft and Apple. Yet… Why does everybody forget about the big dog down in San Jose which represents most of what we see? If you have looked at a PDF, a … Continue reading

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Great Post on Math Texts

This guys blog post on the state of most math texts strikes a chord with me. I have often been frustrated with some of the books I have purchased on technical/science topics that I would like to have in my … Continue reading

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Question: Any easy way to safely and remotely upgrade to Xen?

I have some personal machines in a colo. It is a bit of a drive and not so easy to work at. The OSs really need a big update to a modern distro. Is there any safe and reliable way … Continue reading

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ZFS – neat system, still can’t boot into it?

About 3 weeks ago, I was going to setup a Solaris box we acquired for a particular task in the office. I chose this box and Solaris since I had read great things about ZFS. In the past I would … Continue reading

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