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Prove you are a robot

budque — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:16:17 -0600

I am trying out a new design in my email forms that will prove that the user filling in the form is a robot rather than having the user type in funny looking letters from an image to prove that they a

JAlbum...I cant Believe its free!

Axman — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:45:09 -0600

http://jalbum.net/

Vista vs. Tiger & Inspiron vs. MacBook

ryan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:28:50 -0600

I need a new laptop. Instead of buying one, I bought two and decided to live with each for a week or so and then decide which one would become *my* laptop. The two candidates are a Dell Inspiron XPS M1210 and an Apple MacBook. They both have the same core specs, same glossy monitor size, about the same weight. The Dell is running Vista and the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Tiger.

Residential NAS/Backup Schema

wax — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:27:00 -0600

This next week A and I move into our new space and so I'm considering a new solution for backup and redundancy of data in our new home.

Beryl/Compiz on Kubuntu Feisty

colin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:41:23 -0600

As part of my fooling around with Linux, I recently upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu, the beta of 7.04 Feisty, with mixed experiences. I had problems even getting things to dist-upgrade, etc, which

OSX 10.5 review, Leopard, doesn't quite Stack Up.

ryan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:57:18 -0600

I must say I'm disappointed in Apple's latest major OS update, OSX version 10.5 "Leopard". Perhaps I haven't caught the correct vibe, or learned all the tricks yet, but it just seems like I'm paying the cost of having to spend more time getting to my files in exchange for some pretty bells. Considering the 2+ years of development time, I have to admit I expected more from Leopard.

cool sites

wax — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:14:42 -0600

calling on the geeks!

if you have time/interest, would you list some of the coolest site you've seen on thee ole Web these days?

8 Steps to a 10.5.3 Leo Hackintosh (badaxe2)

ryan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:41 -0600

A while back I posted the recipe for my Leopard Hackintosh. I've re-done it now to work with OSX v10.5.3.

Components
- Intel D975BX2X2 (Bad Axe2) motherboard
- Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E video card.
- 3GB RAM
- Intel Q6600 CPU
- WD Raptor 150GB 10K RPM HDD
- Pioneer IDE DVD/RW
- Apple Leopard (I purchased this so I wouldn't feel guilty and so I could put the Apple logo sticker on the chassis).

The Steps

1) Burn the Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO. This can be gotten from your favorite bittorrent tracker. I learned the hard way that it's important to A) burn the ISO at 4x and B) take care not to scratch it. Seems the installer isn't very robust when it comes to minor DVD defects. Or, perhaps I was using crappy blanks.

I heart VMWare

ryan — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:40:12 -0600

In a remote office I had a RAID5 collapse. The OS was Dapper Linux running VMWare server. On it was a VM of a Win2K3 file/print server.

MacBook vs. Dell w/ Feisty

colin — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:41:33 -0600

I currently am testing out Ryan's MacBook vs.

free website gfx

ryan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:25:15 -0600

Any of you yackos got a line on free website graphics for use on a site like this? I want to replace the reddish-pink triangle and circular buttons with something shiny! Need more flare!

wax — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:57:13 -0600

when Apple made the move to rewrite their OS years back, surely they took many things into consideration.

such as the propogation of Linux! wahooOOO!!!!

Protect Web page displayed email addys

budque — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:45:53 -0600

Just wanted to pass on a trick I use to foil spambots from harvesting email addresses that are displayed on my web pages.

How to debug a remote server when it hangs???

bret — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:21:07 -0600

Here's one for you guys:

think before you post

ryan — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:18:23 -0600

Here's a good clip teachers can use to illustrate how when you post something on the Web, you can't take it back:

Google DNS Poisoned?

ryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:55:32 -0600

Google sites aren't coming up for me. Here's what I get after doing a whois:

Technology comes to ANSWER Camp

colin — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:49:01 -0600

I'm experimenting with Drupal and ANSWER Camp - it will hopefully be a fruitful exercise in creating a shortterm social networking site! Check here for more details.

Open cell phones?

colin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:25:21 -0600

One thing that keeps me yelling at my phone instead of feeling good about it is the closed nature of the beast. In just about any other device that you can own, you have the ability to get in th

from Oh! to Ugh.

wax — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:43:11 -0600

alright, alright, somebody tell me wtf is up with this :

okay...look a little more closely :

i'll just say that B - L - O - W - S
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Galleries Take 2

Axman — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:54:34 -0600

Well I went ahead and looked at some of the various suggestions the dudes put out there, and here is the outcome.

Gallery 2 - 2weeks to build...and going:

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/gallery/main.php