http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy A Democrat Living the 2008 New Hampshire Primary Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:53:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've mentioned many times before that more RAM is arguably1 the most important upgrade you could add to your computer. I'm the type that likes to have lots of things up, like iTunes, Photoshop (which consumes a lot of RAM when you foolishly open 20 images at the same time, ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/28/on-ram/ Mr. T's recent "Would you like to..." post displayed terribly on the main page, but was properly-formatted on his page. I've (*crosses fingers*) fixed it... For some reason, both Firefox and IE throw up an error 'symbol' when they encounter a character with an ASCII value over 128... They normally look ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/27/fixawkwardentities/ Inspired by Kyle, I set up a Mozilla Weave server. (Link goes to directions, not my Weave server, since there's absolutely nothing to link to or show about it...) A quick bit of advice: Weave has a "password" (which is used to authenticate with the server) and a "passphrase" (which goes ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/27/weave/ I'm probably one of very few (liberal) Democrats who is pro-gun. I'm not sure "pro-gun" is really the right term. Essentially, I think that the bad guys are always going to have access to guns, so I strongly oppose the notion that I shouldn't be allowed to have one. "Gun ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/26/guns/ Has anyone else found "Breaking news" to be way out of hand? To me, "breaking news" is something major that's just happened. When you hear breaking news, your jaw drops and you run into the next room and tell everyone. 9/11 was breaking news. A major earthquake is breaking news ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/25/breaking-news/ I've noticed that "PM Spam" seems to be the new thing. A spammer signs up and sends private messages to lots of people. They're usually not terribly obviously-spammy, either. On one site, where I basically never used my account and never uploaded any info at all to my profile, I just ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/25/forum-code/ Quite some time ago, I came to realize that the best 'teachers' of a subject (not necessarily academics, but real-world) were the people who had to learn something the hard way. For example, I absolutely, positively cannot explain third normal form for databases, simply because it's intuitively "right" to me, ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/25/jerks/ It seems that everything is up and running. I fully expect something, somewhere to be massively broken, I'm just not sure what is broken or where. Let me know as oddities pop up. http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/24/it-works/ Are we back online!? =-O http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/24/back/ I've kicked off the backup to my home machine... The server's under heavy load, so things may be slow for a bit. (Yes, I could 'nice' it down... But I want this to complete quickly.) http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/08/21/backup-underway/