Love’s labour’s (and data) lost

This one goes out to all the kids who nearly failed that exam due to technical difficulties. My sister and an exchange student staying with my folks both ran into this issue.  It was just before report hand in time and both suffered a major data loss.  My sister lost half of her 12 page [...]

Who are ubuntu?

So I did it.  I installed Linux on a PC.  Granted it wasn’t my PC but I did it!  I installed it on a PC I was setting up for a friend.  It was an older box and didn’t have a Windows XP licence with it.  All he wants it to do is run a [...]

Baby Updates Right to Your Phone!

As most of my very dedicated readership knows (readership.  Bah ha!) I am having a baby.  As it is getting close to baby time many people are asking how they can get information about what is going on.  While we will be contacting some people by phone it is just too busy to call everyone.  [...]

Streams of glory

Last night marked the inaugural delve night featuring players at the table and players joining via the internet.  Personally I think it went quite well.  As stated in my previous post we used Skype for voice communication and ustream to broadcast the video.  The only real technical issue was that ustream has about a 3 [...]

Delve night v0.9 (beta)

So tonight I am mixing technology and roleplaying.  I am hosing a D&D session (like I do most Tuesdays) but today we are mixing in some folks from out of town via the internet.  I am using two technologies.  First I am broadcasting the game via ustream.tv.  This way the remote players can see the [...]

The simple matter of testing

So the organization I work for is moving data centers.  The role I play is I need to test the application I support once the move is made to make sure no pieces are left behind.  Here is the fun part.  Just to log into the system I have to follow these steps: I am [...]

Roadblocks

Well my attempt at installing Linux hit a bit of a snag the other night. Two things conspired to stop me; bad CDs and my laziness. I found some CDs in the bottom of our laptop bag. There were a few scratches on them but they were minor and I thought they might work. So [...]

A dark and scary road

I have started down the long and scary road of installing Linux.  I have downloaded a disk image (ISO) of a version of Linux called Ubuntu.  This is supposed to be the easiest version to work with.  I am excited to use a free operating system.  I have always wanted to run Linux on my [...]