Earlier this week I was introduced to Disney’s Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii. Now, I’m not a gamer so any game that peaks my interest has to be unusual. Epic Mickey is an interest to me for a…
xsysstats and rpc.rstatd
What is xsysstats? xsysstats is a rpc.rstatd client which graphically displays near real time performance statistics of the running unix kernel. The following statistics are available: cpu packets ipackets (packets in) opackets (packets out) pagei (page in) pageo (page out)…
Selle SMP Strike Composit
After my troubles with the Selle San Marco ASPide Composite, I have been riding the Selle SMP Strike Composit saddle for four months now. I just finished up the MS ride NH Seashore Escape, a 60 mile ride around New…
Crank Length
I currently own a 2003 Trek 2300 bicycle, which has Shimano Ultegra 9 speed components. Almost all of the drive train is original but, in the 6+ years I’ve owned the bike, I have put over 20K miles on it. …
The cost of bleeding edge?
I’ve just finished updating my workstation at home and at work to Fedora 11. The impetuous was to cut down on the number of VMs that were running on my machine at home and reduce the number of packages I…
sendmail as a SMTP-AUTH client
For a long time now, I’ve wanted to be able to generate mail from my computer at home, but because I’m behind a dynamic DHCP address, it is hard to have a resolvable hostname. My hosting provider would not accept…