I did a presentation on Linux Traffic Control last night to the local LUG. I found OpenOffice.org’s Impress to be most effective for presentations. The nice digital projector was helpful, too.
Thanks to everyone that attended (and knew not what you were getting into)!
Power has been restored in the neighborhood as of 4 o’clock this afternoon. Finally able to access the Internet, I check various news sites to see what has been going on. I am saddened to learn of Punta Gorda’s fate which it suffered at Zero Hour yesterday. Fortunately, the death toll has [...]
Finally, all is quiet. Outside, there is only silence. No light. No sound. No rain. It’s as if the Earth itself is holding its breath.
Time for sleep.
Outside, it is still quite gusty. The sky is often filled with the bluish flashes of electrical transforms giving up the ghost. It’s as bright as lightning itself on a dark night. The cellular network and POTS seems to be intact, for now.
Presently it’s raining quite hard, with the howling of the wind and the rustling of the bushes outside impossible to ignore. The lights dim. Around 9:30, power fails entirely. It does not come back. A portable radio provides news. I learn of winds in excess of 100 mph at Orlando [...]
Apparently Charley has finally made landfall very near Port Charlotte. It should reach Orlando by ten o’clock this evening. Expected winds are up to 80MPH. It’s starting to seriously pour outside now.
The latest reports are suggesting hurricane Charley’s path will take it very near Orlando. Looks like I picked the perfect weekend destination after all. It’s now nearly three hours to zero hour. Presently the sky has grown darker from it’s original light grey at the time of my arrivial around one o’clock [...]
I stopped at the Gainesville Kargaroo gas station on 34th street for a fill up. They were out of regular and mid-grade. I parked and wandered inside to grab something for breakfast, a hotdog and 32oz soda, as per usual. The line was lengthy at the register. After a few moments [...]
What’s a guy to do with a spare 3Ware Escalade 6200 and a pair of identical 30GB Seagate hard drives? Why, RAID 1 a mail server, of course. I decided it was time to upgrade my parent’s Debian GNU/Linux mail server from a single 6GB Seagate hard disk to an actual RAID 1 [...]
I was in the market for a portable MP3 player recently. The cheapest iPod or Rio Karma I could find was hundreds more than I wanted to spend, even refurbished. Fortunately, someone suggested I look at CD based portable players. It had not occurred to me, as I own no CDs of [...]