I decided I’d rebuild my Linksys NSLU2-based PBX tonight, since SlugOS/BE 4.x had been released back in December and I wasn’t getting new versions of Asterisk pushed through the ipkg channel. Since I’ve done it before, I figured it would only take about an hour, and I was right (okay, it took ten minutes longer [...]
A few years ago, when I was still in charge of the Toronto Community Co-Location Project (a project that I’m pretty sure is defunct by now), I was approached by a fellow named Da Shi, who was just starting a company called 3z Canada. He provided some competitive rates for co-location, but we ultimately sublet [...]
Recently at work, we tried to implement Xen on Intel Xeon, running a 64-bit dom0/domU. I have to say that this failed horribly, so I’m writing this post to warn others off it. My colleague Gabriel worked hard to migrate everything back to a 32-bit environment, so kudos to him.
The specific symptoms we experienced while [...]
It’s that time of year again when I start to think about what computer upgrades I might want to do. I’ve had some annoying things happen with my desktop PC recently and have considered either replacing it entirely, or implementing some much-needed upgrades.
Some of you are aware that I’m into vintage computers. Sadly, my basement cannot hold all the computers I wish I could actually have – and some of them are forever going to be too big to fit in any man’s house (not to mention “make it past a man’s significant other“).
But why would one [...]
April Fool’s Day is upon us again, and along with this are some truly stupid April Fool’s jokes. Chief among them was YouTube’s replacement of its featured videos with ones that actually link to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up, a common Internet meme known as "rickrolling". Now characterize me as an old codger, [...]
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