Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway, once I got out I didn’t have much call for all of that dive training. Not a lot of ocean…
Three posts in one day!? Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I left; I didn’t. In fact, I wait for the door to fully close before I pull away because the door…
Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’. Here, for your viewing pleasure, the HP Netserver LP 1000r: These were really potent machines back when they were purchased: dual Pentium…
The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of the time… The cartoons we watched, comics we read, and lots of movies of the time were typically based on…
Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home today, and after lunch I heard what I thought was a trash truck outside followed by some yelling and the…
I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire countries to keep my personal email junk-free. Which is great if you own your own mail server, but harder if…