EGOPOLY

Topics include: programming, Apple, Unix, gadgets, large-scale web sites and other nerdy stuff.

2006

2006/12

Cool Gmail info
I wanted to be the Hulk
Stripe Your Boot Disk
Sad Mac
TivoToGo on Mac
Why Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail stink.
It's Hard to Hate the Google
MySQL is going all, like, greedy.

2006/11

Cut the Zune Some Slack, eh?
Replace .mac with your own server?
Switched to Wordpress
About this site
Note to self: how to use Amazon S3 storage
Line Rider
GLX Stereo Visuals

2006/10

Traffic to this site
Weird Mac OS X Font Corruption
Things that bother me about Ruby
HDR imaging
Missing the point of "push" email.
Flickr is So Great.
FireFox 2.0 (Mac) is Crappy, Broken
WinXP Home under Parallels VM on Mac Pro
Quick Setup Guide for Mac OS X
Myths about starting companies
Krugle: the next Kiko
Note to self: investigate GFS (global file system)
How to find out what version your red hat-flavored distro is

2006/09

Google Reader doesn't suck!
Yegge on Agile Programming and Working at Google
Online community just jumped the shark.
How to setup a local DNS server (idiot's version).
DIY SMART disk reporter.
Mac Pro unboxing
Note to self: KVM over remote IP
RRDtool is way cool
Powerbook back to Tiger
Parallels and Mac Pro
How to use VNC server on CentOS
Asterisk Open Source PBX

2006/08

Inscrutable Java Warning
Using a bluetooth keyboard with a Treo 650
Parallels Desktop and Mac Pro
Tips for installing Ruby mysql module in OS X Tiger
How to use an SSH tunnel chain to access a splunk server behind a double firewall.
Note to self: think of a clever Chuck Norris parody.
Going Private pwns
Enable Postfix mail on Mac OS X Tiger
Ubuntu Linux on Powerbook G4
note to self: how to become a CentOS mirror
set emacs coding system
Mac Pro
Apple WWDC fanboy-dom

2006/07

Apple's DRM-LS
Comments re-enabled.
gdImageGifAnimAddPtr undefined problems trying to build perl GD
Firefox support required. Sorry.
Pre-installed linux hardware.
Note to self: RRDtool
How to upgrade to a recent FireFox on CentOS 4.x
Note to self: Mac utils to investigate
How to unmount a dead smbfs file system.
samba (smbfs) problems: bad superblock error on mount
My wishlist for the new Mac Pro
Google browser sync

2006/06

How to add mod_jk to apache on Mac OS X
arping
Reference for kickstart commands
Other random checklist items for creating CentOS kickstart server
To view this stupid video, you must buy a new computer.

2006/05

Comments turned off, sorry
OpenVPN setup; many clients to one server and LAN
Note to self: SuperDuper backup software
Enabling Remote X Server access on Ubuntu
Existentialism in Counter-Strike
You want that in black? That will be $150.
memcached on Mac OS 10.4 slowness fix
Tamper Data, a cool FireFox plugin

2006/04

Note to self: long-term backup media
More support for the dedicated gadget observation.
What will the new Intel desktop Macintosh line be called?
Unhappy with Dell
YouTube down all morning
Ode to an odometer.
notes on building PHP 5 on a Fedora Core 3 system
Belkin Router Breaks iChat and Counter-Strike
Spotlight is such crap.

2006/03

NTS: doing a remote install of linux with VNC
How to transfer big files between two Macs using a firewire cable
Growl notification managed for OS X
Quicksilver
Gmail Notifier for Mac is broken.
More on single- vs. multi-purpose gadgets.
Riya image search in beta.
Do not upgrade your Fedora Core 4 kernel to 2.6.15
SSH tunneling VNC
Creating a kickstart install server for Fedora Core 4
egopoly20060309
Make your own yum repository
Dealing with accented character sets in MySQL
Digg is the new Slashdot
TextMate is a good editor.
Administrative: about page
Software Update Heart Attack

2006/02

Nomination for most J-cliché web page of all time.
edgio claim
apple 12" powerbook G4
Note to self: open source alternative to F5 BigIP, Cisco LD
AJAX collaborative spreadsheet.
Dvorak... the guy cracks me up.
Back in the Day
Google Blog Search Problems
Camino Revisited
Why I hate Java, reason #347
Hosting FireFox add-ons on your own site
FireFox Bookmarks Synchronizer that works with 1.5.0.x
Linux Machine as File Server for Macs
GMAIL has chat history feature

2006/01

Ruby, Mac OS X, gems problem
MythTV Setup for sony Bravia