In this article I will describe how I setup a central repository to store my configuration files and shell scripts, and a quick process to bring new computers into the system and continue propagating configuration changes as I make them. To use the centralized repository approach, you need to have an account on a file/shell account server somewhere that’s online at least most of the time.
Have you ever sent an email or an IM to the wrong person? Have you ever sent the wrong attachment? I’m not the first person to think about and write about this problem online, but let me tell you one of my strategies that can help contain the scope of the damage: Do everything you can to keep your personal life and your work life separate. read more…
I’m keeping a weekly schedule, but I am not posting an article today because I was on vacation last Thursday through Monday.
I’m going away on vacation this week. (Yay!)
Where I will be staying, supposedly they have free Internet access, but you can’t always count on that. Just the same, I’d like to be able to bring some personal projects with me in case I feel inspired. If I do get motivated to work on these projects, I need access to tools and documentation that I normally get online read more…
Two significant events happened with my Comcast information services this week: I got a letter to call them to arrange an unnessesary upgrade to my TV equipment, and without any notification I was aware of, they made changes to the Internet service that broke my company’s VPN connection software. read more…
There is a lot of text out there. More and more often these days, that text is avaiable only in electronic form. If you have something big to read, you might want to convert those bits to printed paper. But maybe the printer is too far away, you might be a dedicated environmentalist, or maybe your cat makes every new printout inaccessible by sitting on it just as soon as you put it down for a moment. For whatever reason, we all have to read big documents on our computer screens from time to time.
Okular is a great document viewer, but unless you’re a Linux geek, you’ve probably never heard of it. If you are a Linux user, you probably didn’t know it was available for Window now. read more…
About six weeks ago I made two life-changing decisions: to migrate my office desktop PC from Ubuntu Linux to Windows 7; and to start this blog. Rebuilding my desktop proved to be an easier task to finish, being motivated by the need for a working computer on my desk, but of course it wasn’t without its problems. And now, after a few spread out nights of learning and hacking WordPress, here is the blog. read more…