http://www.p14nd4.com/blog ...What...you think this means something? Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright! I concede! I am never going to get this blog up to date at the rate I'm going / in the depth that I typically provide, so this is my compromise. I'm going to forgo looking back on email records, facebook messages, and photos, and just recap some of ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2009/11/03/spring-2007-summer-2008/ Introduction Well, I'm on one of my weekly conference calls with some of our engineers in India, and don't need to completely pay attention all the time, so I decided to start writing a little. But, rather than writing something substantial (like the very necessary continuance of my life update since ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2009/08/03/of-motorcycles-thunderstorms-and-eukaryotes/ In case you're just joining us, this post is a continuation of my first attempt to bring my blog up to date since my previous update left off in September, 2006 (about two years ago). I had to give up around 3 AM, and that only brought me through February, ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2008/12/15/life-changes-part-2/ Wow ... so I guess a lot has happened since the last time I wrote a personal entry in here. I could only begin to describe how daunting the task of trying to cover everything that's happened since then is, and more than likely, I'm going to end up writing ... http://www.p14nd4.com/blog/2008/10/16/life-changes/ 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/