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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
One of the major elements I've heard in the health care reform debate was the need to optimize how medical records are kept and accessed. The chief complaint revolves having to coordinate data between multiple providers.
If this is a major problem -- then I must say, there are some providers ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
As I'm getting my townhome ready to sell and gearing up for a big move, I'm struck by one thing: Americans, as a culture, prepare for, no, we expect the exceptional case.
You see it all over the place. We choose larger homes, just in case we have kids or get ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
I've spent the last few days toying with ZFS on protego (FreeBSD 8); and I must say, I'm very happy! It's refreshing to have this degree of control over a logical block of storage (2x500GB drives).
I used the ZFS Quick Start Guide to get started. I also cuddled up with ...
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
My morning routine on the weekend usually consists of: wake up, brew coffee, drink said coffee (possibly watch a little TV), then go about my day. Indeed, today followed this pattern -- that is, until I realized that I had nothing to do today1!
That means it's time to play around ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
This last few weeks have either been 1) a little spot of computer hell or 2) a comedy of errors. At this point, I'm not sure which.
It all started with episkey, my main hosting server. For about 2 years, it had been colocated at Red Rocks Data Center (these guys ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
The Wall Street Journal has a rather interesting article about iPhone usage by Microsoft employees. It's a good (if perhaps not a bit silly) read, but more importantly, I think it's another pointer at Microsoft's stunning self-delusion when it comes to producing consumer products.
Take this quote (of a quote) for ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
I'm trying a technical experiment at home to maximize my computing "infrastructure." I have a great setup here: a mac mini (1.83GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB), a MacBook Pro (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB), a FreeBSD server (1.4GHz Pentium 4, 1.2GB), and a Gigabit Network.
One of the major challenges I ...
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
The fine netatalk folks have done it again: added Time Machine support to their software! It even works!
If you're looking to roll your own Time Machine server, and don't want to shell out for one of Apple's Time Capsules (say, if you want to integrate Time Machine into your existing ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
I've been failed pretty badly by my rather new-age phone setup over the last few days. I've missed important calls by an abject failure of my carriers to deliver them to my handsets.
For instance, early this week, Google Voice (or QuantumVoice, my VoIP provider) were failing to deliver calls to ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
A user came into #help on EsperNet today and asked about an issue with ChanServ's KEEPTOPIC feature.
I remembered this being a bug; but I totally forgot that I fixed it.
So, I asked Subversion:
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r196 | srees | 2009-04-25 11:16:22 -0600 (Sat, 25 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
* "Fix" TBURST to send ...
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