by Dennis Clayton | Nov 7, 2007 | Apple, Cell Phones, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, Linux, Software, Technical, Technology
This was one of my first popular iPhone/Tech posts… Reposting it now about 16 years later. 🙂 Over the last month or so that I’ve had the iPhone, I have enjoyed just the original base features included with it. But, being the geek that I am, I had to...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 26, 2007 | Cool Stuff, General, Linux, Software, Technical, Technology
I decided to actually go all out and test to see how well my blog here would run on a virtual machine. I started by downloading VMWare Server (Free), and then grabbed a VMWare Appliance from their “Virtual Appliance Marketplace” that provides a nice,...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 23, 2007 | Cool Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Technical, Technology
I recently ran across a “new” (to me) virtualization software that is very similar in function to VMWare workstation. I downloaded Innotek’s Virtual Box software, which quickly and painlessly installed, seeming to be a little faster to install than...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 7, 2007 | Cool Stuff, Linux, Software, Technical, Technology
Linux isn’t as hard as it looks to do some cool things… This server was down earlier today due to, I believe, a power outage. Even though the server has pretty massive battery backups, I think the momentary kick over to battery might have caused it to poop...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 5, 2007 | Linux, Software, Technology
I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04, the “Feisty Fawn” the other day, installed it on my spare 40gb drive, as usual, and booted it up. Installation is a “Live CD” type install, it boots into the OS, therefore making sure it will boot on your system before...
by Dennis Clayton | Jul 18, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Linux, Software, Technical, Technology
Back in April I wrote a snippet about the WebServ WAMP package, but I found a new and better one that beats the pooooo out of WebServ. WAMP5 (1.6.4a) is basically the same but with more up to date components and has an excellent taskbar menu that can take care of a...