Ok, so I’ve had it installed for less than a day, and I’ve got very little actually installed on it, but I’ve noticed a few things:
Grub is very cool. Not something the average consumer would want to mess with, but a great geek tool for controlling startup.
I may not have noticed this if not […]
Well, Debian 3.1 (sarge) is up and running, with a dual boot to Windows XP Professional. This post is pretty long and detailed, so read more only if you want that kind of detail.
The Download
I started by downloading the Network Install CD Image and burning that to a CD. This quick download allows […]
The hard drive on my Dell died (which is a whole separate story that I had hoped to tell, but may never get around to it). For the past few weeks, I’ve been running Knoppix on that computer. I started using Knoppix in an attempt to recover some of the data from the […]
I’m wondering if it’s just marketing hype, but I found an interesting story about Diachrome (a patented combination of chromium picolinate and biotin): Press release, original article
When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I learned that chromium picolinate could help control my blood sugar. In fact, it is part of my daily regimen, but […]
I discovered what looks like a great free tool for developing Flash components and web sites, called OpenLaszlo. Based on my very cursory investigation, applications can be developed using just a text editor, but they create very nice Flash output. An eclipse plugin is also available from IBM.
The OpenLaszlo SDK uses a […]
The internet continues to amaze me.
Tonight I decided to search Technorati, to see if anyone’s talking about my family. I was surprised to see someone in the UK (Jasmine) mention my brother Grant — and it appears Jasmine is a bit of a celebrity there, doing TV and magazine interviews. But this isn’t […]
Well, I decided to make this the default page for datguy.net. All of the links from the old index page should be listed here, but let me know if something is missing.
I’m curious how this will impact my listing on Google. I also submitted my site feed to yesterday, and […]
I was curious where I stood on Google, so I did a search for datguy. I was disappointed to find that I didn’t even make the first page (unlike rhondave, where our sites dominate the first page). I decided to look at some of the others using the name…
On datguy.com, datguy is […]
I saw bits of the movie 12 Monkeys on TV today. I missed the end, so I started looking for more information on it and found an interesting discussion of the time travel in the movie: Temporal Anomalies: 12 Monkeys
I wonder… now that Microsoft is taking on the big search engines, are Yahoo and Google going to be forced to merge? Might they call the combined company Yahoogle?
I heard a comment earlier that made me wonder — has anyone ever named a restaurant “The Holy Grill”? I searched and was surprised to find a couple books that used the name, but didn’t see any restaurants. I even found a site with an unpublished comic strip named Marty Python and […]
Someone at work mentioned this news recently, but I just remembered it and found this WebMD Article.
In a recent study, drinking a whey supplement mixed with water along with a “high glycemic index” meal prevented the blood sugar spike that normally occurs in people with type 2 diabetes. The research suggests that whey stimulates […]