Author: Marc

Linux

Playing with Gentoo

Just for the heck of it, I setup a virtual machine with QEMU and installed Gentoo Linux in it. Gentoo is the distro for uberhackers - no fancy installers here; you do all the setup manually and you compile everything yourself...

General

Installed a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz

After buying some thermal paste yesterday afternoon, last night I installed a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (800 MHz FSB) in my Asus S-presso. I'm hoping that this gives me more cycles to make my virtual machines more responsive....

Windows

Folder View: Windows freeware for faster access to folders

From the Folder View web site Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system. Files are often scattered around many different folders on the harddisk...

General

What’s up with REQUEST_FILENAME in mod_rewrite?

I was trying to setup mod_rewrite rules for a CakePHP app running under Apache. According to the mod_rewrite docs, REQUEST_FILENAME is "The full local filesystem path to the file or script matching the request." If that were...

General

Installed 1 GB of Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 RAM

Last night I installed 1 GB of Corsair DDR400 RAM (VS1GBKIT400) in my Asus S-presso machine. I previously had 512 GB of slower RAM so this should provide a nice speed bump. I also have a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (800 MHz FSB) to install...

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Biblical verses at In-N-Out Burger

From Friday's trip to In-N-Out Burger: The verse is John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. More on the In-N-Out...

Linux

Resizing a QEMU virtual machine, partition, and filesystem

I setup a QEMU virtual machine the other day so that I could play with Gentoo Linux, which we were talking about at work on Wednesday. Unfortunately, as I was halfway through the install process untarring the large Portage tree,...