http://www.p14nd4.com/blog ...What...you think this means something? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hahaha. So I'll try to keep this brief, but I just wanted to post the problem I recently found with VMware Server (1.0.4, 1.0.5) on linux (perhaps others), and what I eventually found to be the cause and workaround. Problem Running VMware server on linux, I edit virtual machine settings, open the ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2008/03/24/vmware-server-hangs-on-mount-iso-browsing-smbmount/ This is a break from my regular vein of [not] posting, but I'm livid enough that I need to write this. I've had SprintPCS cell phone service since 2003, and have been generally pleased with the service. It's all subjective, of course, but I haven't had real issues with dropped ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2008/03/05/ridiculous-account-requirements-on-sprintpcscom/ I got back less than 24 hours ago from the 2008 Affiliate Summit (West) in Las Vegas, NV, which I attended for the company I co-founded in 2001, TechwareLabs.com. Aside from being very tired every night after much more walking and standing than I'm used to, I was very pleased ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2008/03/04/affiliate-summit-west-2008-part-1/ Introduction As some of you may know, I bought a refurbished IBM ThinkPad T41 (2373-5U2, iirc) during fall 2005, and have been dual booting it with Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu Linux. The hard drive is only 40 GB, which I partitioned as: 26.5 GB Windows (NTFS) 5 GB ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2007/05/23/ubuntu-feisty-704-compiz-thinkpad-t41/ Introduction Yes, I realize that's pretty much the most creative title ever to grace the internet. I'll give you a minute to let it sink in. ... Anyway ... a fair amount of substantial, major life change sort of things have happened since my last post, so it's probably kind of important for ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2007/01/25/fall-2006-update/ Summerfest Depending on how long you've known me (or whether or not you know me at all, I suppose), you may recall that I have a tradition of heading out to Wisconsin every summer, around the 4th of July, to visit a friend and business partner (Keefe) and see some concerts ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2006/07/10/wisconsin-2006/ Updates If you're really masochistic and check my blog every few days hoping for an update, you may have already noticed a few subtle changes to the right navigation bar on here. I hope that's not the case, though, so I get to entertain you with a brief walk-through of these ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2006/06/17/some-updates/ I'm not going to claim to have great musical taste, or very much exposure to new music, or exposure to many bands outside of mainstream music (so all you zomg indie music! freaks can just stop reading now :-P), but I'm going to try something new in my blog, and ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2006/03/27/music-of-the-moment/ After leaving my front page (visually) the same for about two years now (you can check it out for yourself at archive.org), I recently felt somewhat compelled (obligated) to actually do something useful after receiving repeated praises from Josh about my site (though, to be honest, I'm not sure what ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2006/02/23/minor-front-page-redesign/ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! Ok. Breathe. I'm cool now. If you haven't figured it out by now, this post is basically going to be a rant about all the wonderful free services my university (and presumably many other universities ... I can't confirm that) is proud to offer its students. The most recent of ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2006/02/20/free-university-services/