By John Bowen, 2 January, 2009

I had a customer computer, which was running Windows XP Pro on a RAID 0 array (striping). There were twin 230GB hard drives, striped into a 460GB RAID0. Customer bought new 1 TB drives, and wanted them installed. This time, though, there would be no RAID, just one drive for the OS and programs, and one for the customer's data.

By John Bowen, 5 December, 2008

In [a previous post|blog/20080828/tethered-dialup-with-eeepc-palm-755p-and-alltel], I wrote about setting up a tethered dial-up connection using a Palm Treo 755p and an eeePC.

It seems that during the upgrade process from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to 8.10 (Intrepid), something changed in the networking modules and broke this...a little bit.

By John Bowen, 18 November, 2008

I already love OpenOffice for all the typical reasons (functionality, freedom, etc.), but it's always been a little slow to load. It might take 15 seconds or so to initially open writer or calc...once they're open, everything is fine...it's just that load time that's a little annoying.

By John Bowen, 15 November, 2008

Welcome to another opening day of the firearm deer season in Michigan...something of a local holiday I guess.

Here's my view on this windy afternoon...

By John Bowen, 9 November, 2008

I found a really nice script that backs up all my MySql databases on a rotation, and generally provides insurance against database crashes and the like. I followed the instructions given, popping my copy of the script into /etc/cron.daily, and double-checking the permissions. The only change I had to make to get the script to run properly was to set #!/bin/sh at the beginning of the file...after that, I could run it *manually* all I wanted. Neato.

By John Bowen, 1 November, 2008

If things go well, this post from email will have an image of a doggy
inline right below this text...

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By John Bowen, 31 October, 2008

If things go well, this post from email will have an image of a doggy
inline right below this text...

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