Nerhood Weblog

OK, so you’re probably thinking this is a post about some new type of robot that has gone crazy, and in a way you would be right. The recent upgrade (still in progress) to site requires a significant increase in the amount of CPU cycles. Normally this would not be much of a problem, but [...]

I’ve been working for the past couple of weeks on a major update of this site. Over the next week I plan to implement these changes and I expect pieces to break during this process so please bear with the mess. The plans include:

Updating the core Wordpress installation to the latest version
Installing a new theme, [...]

What a couple of weeks I’ve had. We have a pair of Dell PowerVault 220s at the office. Each of these hold 1.2 TBs of data and provides about half the data storage for the entire company. When the boxes work, they work just fine, but watch out if they start to fail. What follows [...]

Mike over at JeepinXJ is almost ready to buy a Mac mini. He’s been asking about what software he’ll need to install in order to replace his Linux box. Instead of just sending him an email, I figured I post my list so that other could comment on it as well.
Fink is like yum for [...]

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and I mean beautiful. The sky was a New Mexico kinda of sky, crystal clear, no clouds, no haze, and as blue as blue can be. The temperature was nice, even in the sun, because there was a breeze blowing. For a surprise, we all walked to the Dunkin’ Donuts [...]