General Blather

My favorite local haunt, you know, the computer store, happened to have a deal going on with a 24-inch LCD monitor that kicks out 1920x1200 resolution, so I bought one. more »

After some time (read many years), I decided to try to do something about the DNS difficulties of not having hosts on the LAN know each other by name. more »

Evidently I'm not the only Solaris user without ZFS. Took a couple of days, but someone else noted it and the ZFS lib error is gone. Already updated and running smoothly. Now to add zones to the other Solaris box, the one with ZFS, and move Hudson over… more »

While goofing around with my Hudson CI tool, I noticed there was an update. I was a couple versions back, and the install is easy enough (undeploy old WAR, deploy new WAR), so I figured "why not." Evidently the new WAR uses JNI to get to the ZFS file… more »

I've been approached many times at my current gig by members of a related project about how to improve their code coverage numbers. In an abuse of the numbers or a misunderstanding of their purpose, there's a mandate to keep code coverage at 80%. The… more »

A few years ago (I want to say five, but the wife thinks fewer), we got a big 50-inch LCD projection TV. From the front it looks like a flat-panel, but it isn't, instead being wedged-shaped with all of the projection stuff on the bottom. We like it, and… more »

I let a domain expire today. It's a little like losing a pet, isn't it? more »