16 September 2010 ~ 1 Comment

One reason I hate iTunes.

TweetI’ve always hated iTunes. It’s a huge pile of bloatware and it’s slow as poo. It’s like 100 mb or more for an mp3 player. I remember winamp playing mp3s when it was a 500k download. Anyway. I keep all my music on a Linux machine running samba. This way it’s available to every machine [...]

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28 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A less insidious way to use Facebook?

TweetI deactivated my Facebook account a couple of months ago. I just kind of got tired of seeing silly updates from friends and “friends” – people I’d friended but wasn’t really friends with. I was also frustrated by the privacy implications of using such a service: you tell it about yourself, you tell it about [...]

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25 August 2010 ~ 8 Comments

Oh, Compellent… again with the disk prices.

TweetTime to expand the SAN again.

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05 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Vonage iPhone App Calls Facebook Friends Free, So What?

TweetLots of outlets seem to have picked up the story about the new Vonage iPhone app that lets you call your Facebook friends free. I don’t understand why this is even newsworthy. There are a bunch of free VOIP apps for iPhone already, with Skype being the one that comes to mind first. But a [...]

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29 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Linksys WAP54G died after 10 months.

TweetI bought my first wireless access point a few years ago – a Linksys WAP54G (v 1.0). It lasted 2-3 years. When it died I bought another WAP54G – version 3.1. This one just died tonight. I was sitting here and I noticed that the wireless was down. I moved the plug to another outlet [...]

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02 September 2001 ~ 0 Comments

Evan's Semi-complete Aimster Saga

TweetThe following was written by me in my Slashdot journal on September 02, 2001. I have not edited it since then except for formatting. This is long and rambling and will likely have parts that make no sense. I just finished writing it at 5:33 am right now Sunday morning, so that is my excuse. [...]

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