Anime Review: Kokoro Connect

February 18, 2013

Enjoyed the show, wish it had been longer to explore in more detail some of these (somewhat) philosophical ideas.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Mostly clean, see full description for the discussion of the “unclean” parts.

Migrate Snow Leopard Server to Lion or Mountain Lion

December 28, 2012

I have a Snow Leopard server running, obviously, 10.6.8. It does too many things. It serves AFP, OD, iCal, AddressBook, Wiki, RADIUS, Software Updates, and a few other things. That is just too much stuff on one server that goes down every time I do a little maintenance. What I wanted to do is setup…

Building a stateless Linux kiosk browser

December 17, 2012

Linux is a great system for some tasks. One of these tasks is a simple kiosk browser. That is, a computer that does nothing but pull up a web page and display the contents and, in my case, attach to a touch-screen to allow the user to interact with the web page. The downside is…

Building a Home for Dragons

November 22, 2012

Following on my post about hating manufactured homes, here is the final outcome. Everything started about 6 months ago with wanting to retrofit one of the spare bedrooms in my house. I live in a 3-bedroom house all by myself, so the extra 2 bedrooms are, well, extra. One I have setup as a spare…

Anime Review: Angel Beats!

November 6, 2012

Absolutely awesome. Good comedy that makes you laugh at the absurdity of it all while still telling a story of people trying to figure out who they are.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Sexually clean, has a few gory scenes

Anime Review: Toradora!

November 6, 2012

Good plot that develops throughout the entire shows run. Lots of laughs the whole way through.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 25
Content: Very clean

Anime Review: Vandred

November 6, 2012

Really enjoyed it. Good story and character development throughout the show. A welcome change from the usual “High School Anime”.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Mostly clean, call it teen safe.

Why I hate manufactured homes

September 22, 2012

Why would I have anything to say about manufactured homes? Well I live in one first of all. Secondly, I’m not the kind of person who just sits in a house and says “oh well, I wish it had such and such but it doesn’t so I guess I’ll just live without it.” My house…

Test your iSCSI paths

September 5, 2012

Ever since we moved to the paid version of VMware I had noticed some oddities in speed. Mostly in the backups from the VDR appliance. Sometimes a VM would backup in about 30 minutes, other times it would time out after 10 hours (i.e. it ran for 10 hours and then the backup window closed…

Disk speed testing the new Retina MBP and Thunderbolt

August 26, 2012

My friend just received his new MBP Retina. Because my older MBP also has an (aftermarket) SSD in it, we decided to do some speed test comparisons. The 2011 MBP has a Samsung SSD, but it is the older model. The current model is supposed to have about a 30-50% speed boost over the model…