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my 1st WTF? of the week

Is he deaf?

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We are moving to a loft in Brooklyn.

As per my previous post, I found a nice amount of space for a reasonable price in Brooklyn. I posted some initial images in the gallery.

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HeatSync Mini-Client 2500

HeatSync Mini-Client 2500. This is it folks. This is the case that  we have been waiting for to build the HTPC of the next five years. There are no negatives here. It is completely fanless (read silent), yet can handle a modern Intel DG45FC mainboard with a 3GHz dual core processor and decent video card. [...]

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ZFS in practice – installation under ubuntu

1. vim /etc/apt/source.list.d/zfs-fuse.list add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main 2. update sudo apt-get update 3. install it sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse 4. Enjoy

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1 part Sam Adams Boston Ale + 1 part Welch’s White Grape Peach Juice.

I know it sounds bad, but try it. It really works.

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1st youtube upload.

I finally got around to uploading a video to youtube with imovie. Here it is.

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Go splunk yourself.

Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.

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I am still alive.

I am looking for an 1100 sq ft+ loft on a decent block in brooklyn. Any takers?

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I brought another server out of retirement.

I brought the old mythtv backend up with some updates. I managed to upgrade the thing from fedora core 7 to fedora 8 with the procedure I outlined here. I just had to modify the yum repos to point to the new fedora 8 repo. I bought a bookcase, an ikea made vesa mount, and [...]

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I made a newegg wish list for a quiet home server.

Here is is. I have decided to use a mac mini as my mythtv frontend.

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