Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Things I wish people would document, plus some original fiction. Weird, huh?

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Entries from September 2008

Currently reading…

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Dave: I have 5 books in the queue, but a depressing book will be a morning-only read, leaving the evening for podcasts/re-reads.
Dave: like The Glass Castle was a morning-only reader.
Nate: by Jeanette Walls?
Dave: yeah
Dave: good book, but don’t read it on the way home
Nate: the wikipedia summary makes it look depressing
Dave: well, it depends [...]

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Tags: Books

Quicken 2009 as a Virtual Machine Appliance

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

My wandering uses of Quicken started with very early versions on Mac OS, back in the black and white days. Then there was the new age of color macs, and then shortly after was the Windows Revolution, where they discovered that there were greener fields on green screens. Then, suddenly, there was not one product [...]

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Tags: Bookshelf · House and Home · Projects

STAF and I don’t mean the infection

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

So we’re using this thing at work called staf to trigger tests, copy files, collect results, that kind of thing. I mention this because at least my experience with it is marred. This is at least partially because I’m using it on groups of virtual machines that are resumed in the middle of their dhcp [...]

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