http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog Thoughts, ideas, and ramblings of a crazed mind Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:01:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saw an interesting post over at Planet Sysadmin regarding a fire & water proof external hard drive by ioSafe - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1719.  Rated up to 1,550 F for 30 minutes and starting only at $150 for the 500 GB model sounds very tempting in my book. http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/329 I've been a fan of Wolfram's A New Kind of Science when I first heard about it maybe 5 years ago.  The book was a very interesting read but I didn't dive too much deeper into the material at the time.  CA (cellular automata) were interesting from the perspective of ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/326 I couldn't help myself anymore.  Newegg had 1 TB green drives on sale...  again, and my old ~1 TB storage array was nearly full.  Since my random computer parts are scattered about, I grabbed the only extra working machine I could find and threw the 4 drives into it.  Unfortunately ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/323 Learning.  A subject of much interest, for those who respect it's power.  Something that can absorb you completely and spit you back out nearly a new person.  I've always loved the process of learning and strived to prioritize it above all things but have never put it so wonderfully as ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/316 For those of you who are unaware, the latest Ubuntu release - Jaunty - was released several days ago.  Normally, the fastest way to get the latest version is to torrent an ISO...  the repositories are so overloaded attempting to do an upgrade is not even remotely possible.  However, there ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/311 I thought documenting my notes and what I've leared about the SheevaPlug so far may be useful so I'm putting together a basic HOW-TO.  The documentation from GlobalScale Technology is a great place to start. Firstly, it will likely come pre-installed with Ubuntu Jaunty Beta, although possibly Gentoo.  Both can run ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/300 So I've decided to disable my weekly Twitter updates after seeing how annoying it would be to read.  I've been working on a few things lately, first is a "DIY radar" weather warning system with the help of NOAA WSR-88D radar data, libGD, and Perl.  I recall some very basic ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/296 New Ktux release.  Code is now somewhat more organized and committed into a Subversion repository.  Preparing to replace paging code with cleaner and more versatile implementation - this will allow for user-level (x86 ring 3) support.  I've also started to twit now about Ktux, Linux, and all things science.  Follow ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/279 I wanted to write a brief posting on some basic ways to help remotely administer Ubuntu/Debian boxes.  Over the past few months I've been tinkering with various methods of handling this and what I've come up with seems to work fairly well.  It basically consists of two applications: apticron, which ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/272 So it's been some time since I posted, unfortunately life has kept me on the go these past several weeks and I've had limited time at my desk.  However, thankfully I was able to work on Ktux from my netbook and now I successfully have multitasking working!  I attempted several ... http://www.anthonyldechiaro.com/blog/archives/260