Adventures As Me

My First Program
Back in 1998 I took my first job in “the industry”: an EDI Clerk/IT Assistant. Being completly self-taught, from the corner or nowhere, I was extremely happy to have the job. It offered potential to learn about the IT field and would give me real-world experience, not only in solving problems, but dealing [...]

My workplace recently bequeathed a G5 Mac to me, my first “real” Apple computer. With it came two mice:

A mighty mouse
A wireless mighty mouse
After using the Mighty Mouse for a couple months, I can honestly say this is the worst mouse design I’ve everused. Oh, don’t get me wrong, aesthetically, the mice are [...]

There was a time when Mandrake generated a lot of excitement and talk within the Linux community. The first distro to use egcs, compiling the binaries for Pentium class processors. Then the first to put a lot of focus on first time Linux useres by developing simple to use wizards and control panel applets (among [...]

During the past few weeks, I’ve had opportunity to install more than my fairshare of GNU/Linux distributions. Indeed, likely I installed more distributionsthe last three months than the prior 10+ years of using GNU/Linux. The distributions installed are:

cAos i386, x86_64
CentOS 3 i386, x86_64
CentOS 4 i386, x86_64
Fedora Core 1,2,3,4,5 i386, x86_64 (for [...]

At work, I’m in charge of putting together two “massive” VMWare servers for developers, QA and tech support. These servers will be duplicates of each other and are using the free version of VMWare server.
Each server will have 5 VMWare guest installations of every operating system we support, not counting MS Windows. That’s about 15 [...]