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Super Awesome Setup Script, Yummy!

The script better known simply as sassy was a long time coming. Every time I upgrade Ubuntu and then have crap fall apart to the point that I end up reinstalling I end up saying "Josh, if you had a [...]

And finally, I upgraded my hard drive (part 2)

And so the story continues. After much difficulty installing / setting up my new hard drive, I decided to make matters worse by cloning my old Windows XP partition to one of the partitions on the new drive. After a [...]

And finally, I upgraded my hard drive

Was a long time coming, seeing as I purchased the 1.5TB drive back in February. Pre-upgrade I had a 500GB drive partitioned into two partitions. The 100GB partition housed Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 upgraded to 8.10 upgraded to 9.04) and the [...]

Mass svn add script

So I have a tendency to add a bunch of new files to a project before actually doing a commit in Subversion. It's usually not an issue, I go through an add each new file and then finally do my [...]

Media Temple Grid-Service... ehhh, not so much

I'm starting to feel like I'm bitching and complaining a lot on here instead of documenting steps towards resolving issues. Today's subject, Media Temple's Grid-Service hosting. I personally don't have a Media Temple account (for reference, I am currently hosting [...]

Super massive content update

Gutted just about every page on the site. There's more of a focus on trim information without a lot of BS. No more links to friend's sites and software and shit that didn't really matter. Rewrote / updated the text [...]

Intel Graphics Regressions in Jaunty, say wha?

A piece of me died after I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. Apparently, and serves me right for not reading up on it before the upgrade, the Intel Graphics drivers are completely crippled by a bug in the code [...]

I wish YoVille! would just die

So my wife loves this ridiculous online / Facebook game called YoVille!. It's basically a silly point system tacked onto a chat room. Even worse, it's formal equivalent would be Animal Crossing, which I shelled out like 70$ for when [...]

New Feature, an RSS Feed!

Sadly, I failed to add an RSS feed to the site when it initially launched. Even sadder, the "system" I have been developing for the last year (it's called PICKLES and is about to make it to revision 100 in [...]

Nintendo Wii Won't Power On

This is the second time this has happened to me in the last 6 weeks, my Nintendo Wii simply will not power on. No lights, no anything. The last time it happened, I unplugged everything, unplugged the power adapter from [...]