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Monthly Archives: April 2008

So long, Open Solaris!

Friday, April 25, 2008

I’ve been running OpenSolaris Nevada on my file server for a while now. While ZFS makes administration of filesystems beautiful, I’ve been disappointed with the zpool functionality.
In addition, administering the rest of Solaris is a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Things like Perl’s CPAN, which is supposed to have a high level [...]

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New car!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Last week, my poor Tempo decided that it no longer wished to be for this world. As this leaves me carless, I went and got myself a new car.
What type of car, you ask?
A 2001 Audi A6 Quattro. And I love it.
It’s smooth, comfortable, and a great highway cruiser. That last part [...]

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Life without iTunes

Monday, April 7, 2008

Apple’s walled garden works well for most people. I, unfortunately, am not most people.
This is my story.
As I’ve already discussed previously, iTunes has a certain amount of suck involved.
So, I’ve discovered Play, which sucks less in some ways, and sucks more in others. As so far, the more suckage hasn’t been so much [...]

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