Archive for the 'Tech-Rambling' Category
Update: According to the IE blog, the IE team has changed its stance from what it was (as described in this post) to a more logical one. I intended to do another blog post about it, but other things in life have been more interesting (like getting sleep since I’ve been a bit ill). [...]
I recently bought two new 19″ monitors (with a nice 1680×1050 resolution each). I was surprised that I simply plugged them both in and started the computer and Gnome was correctly displaying a cloned image (i.e., the same thing on both screens) at the correct resolution on both monitors. Unfortunately, getting them to [...]
I’ve always been intrigued by the similarities between a computer and a human brain. I also find it fascinating that DNA is essentially a program for saying how our cells should develop. However, more interesting than either of those is the possibility of completely creating a synthetic life form by essentially building DNA [...]
It’s a bit late, so I’ll cut the story down significantly. I was attempting to make my nginx (web server) install play nicely with a front controller PHP setup and became rather frustrated tonight. For some reason, Firefox started to download the index file as a bin(ary). Any time I went to [...]
This is an excellent example of me being an idiot. I have pretty much made the decision to go from Dreamhost to Slicehost, so I thought I would start by transferring my least-used domain as the guinea pig. I created all the DNS records per the nice tutorial and proceeded to change the [...]
