Month: September 2007

Heelys has really focused marketing

Hmmm, this seems like an unnecessarily limited target market: "Heelys, Inc. engages in the design, marketing, and distribution of action sports-inspired products for 14 year-old boys and girls. It offers its products under the...

HaskellProgramming

My favorite monad tutorial

Been reading up a bit lately on Haskell and observing that there are a ton of monad tutorials out there. I've looked at a few and I have to say that my current favorite is: A Neighborhood of Infinity: You Could Have Invented...

Linux

Fixing an unbootable VMware VM after upgrading your Linux kernel

It seem that some of the newer Linux kernel versions (2.6.21 and 2.6.22) don't like the LSI SCSI adapter emulation in some of VMware's products. I myself ran into this when I upgraded the kernel on a Gentoo VM (VMware ESX Server...

Linux

Photos of installing Gentoo in a VMware ESX 3 VM

Installing gentoo-livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso into a VM on a VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 host. Flickr photoset

EmacsLispProgramming

123-menu.el

Even though I've been using Emacs for years, I still have trouble remembering a lot of the key combinations for commands that I don't use all the time (e.g.: killing and yanking rectangles, bookmarks, etc.). I think Lotus 123 for...

General

Photos of installing Solaris 10 in a VMware ESX 3 VM

I haven't worked with Solaris in years and I was curious to see how a recent version looks so I installed sol-10-u4-beta-bld7-x86-dvd.iso in a VMware ESX 3.0.1 VM. Here are some photos....

General

Power usage tidbit

Was measuring a few devices around the house with my Kill-A-Watt and realized that my little Pentium 4 PC is using more power (~140 watts) than the spare refrigerator in our garage (~120 watts). Good thing that I have suspend to...