It kinda makes me feel like an idiot when I spend 2 hours hunting down a problem in a webapp upgrade only to discover it was due to the difference in how windows and linux handle slashs ( Read more... )

Formatting a pair of 1.5TB drives takes way too long, and I don't really want to think how long its going to take to copy all the data off the old 500GB drives back onto them. On the flip side, It only took about 2 hours to diagnose that the reason for the near immediate shutdown of my PC after powering it on was thermal in nature. Turns out the ( Read more... )

I'll be working on a data center move with a client tonight. Its going to be an all hands thing, the client's entire IT Dept plus all the breakfix techs and engineers from my shop as well as reps from IBM, Dell, and several other vendors. This is the first data center move I've done, there have been the usual "We're building a new data center and ( Read more... )

Awhile back I realized that I hadn't had to reboot my workstation lately. I forget what reminded me about it but I found it somewhat unusual because normally I'd be dinking with my workstation enough to need a reboot about every 21 days or so. Instead I realized that i hadn't rebooted in about 90 days. I took it as a sign that work was keeping me ( Read more... )

kokuten's birthday was coming up, and I couldn't think what to get him. Then I remembered a new handle he'd been starting to use in some places(ok, a lot of places) and decided to get him that as a domain.

So, he got wiregeek.net for his birthday :-) He seemed pretty tickled with it when I sent him the email this morning.

I got the lens I rented. Its impressively large and drastically changes the handling of the camera(its REALLY front heavy). I think this one is going to be a "On the tripod" only one, atleast till I get used to it. 3lbs doesn't sound like alot, until you pair it with a 3+lbs camera and vertical grip and then hold it up to your eye for several ( Read more... )

This is an incredibly cool slow motion capture of the shutter on a modern DSLR in operation. Let it load and then scroll your mouse along the red bar on the bottom to see.

http://regex.info/blog/2008-09-04/925

So I'm trying to wake up this morning and catching up on news and whatnot and I refresh slashdot. One of the new articles is a story about Weta Digital, the special effects shop in New Zealand that did all of the Peter Jackson movies ( Read more... )

I managed to go get my mailbox key on the way home from work, so I was able to get my package ( Read more... )

I was debating renting a longer lens for the Road Lottery, and was looking though lensrentals.com since rentglass.com appears to be perpetually out of stock of EVERYTHING Nikon ( Read more... )