http://gaarai.com Code, Technology, and Random Ramblings Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:17:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm now on my fifth day of using Ubuntu on my office machine. Slowly, I'm starting to get accustomed to working with it, but there are still a variety of things that I still need to do from time to time. For those that haven't read my previous posts on this ... http://gaarai.com/2009/01/05/adventures-with-ubuntu-continued/ Samus, my main machine, was having some issues earlier today, so I opened her up and felt around. I touched the graphics card and was nearly burned. I loaded up a temperature tracking program and found that it was running at 93°C. That's nearly 200 degrees Farenheit. I was amazed ... http://gaarai.com/2009/01/04/fixing-a-broken-graphics-cards-fan/ I got Ubuntu successfully installed on my office machine (Dell Studio 17) yesterday. Today, I'm going to use it all day at the office while making notes on what still doesn't work, what I could get to work, how I fixed problems, and I'm sure some random ramblings will enter ... http://gaarai.com/2009/01/03/first-day-with-ubuntu-at-the-office/ It looks like there is a big networking problem over at The Planet. Hostgator, which hosts this blog and is hosted by The Planet, is suffering terribly from this problem. My uptime with Hostgator is so high, that Pingdom tracks my site at 100% uptime since it doesn't track beyond ... http://gaarai.com/2009/01/02/w2k9-aka-the-planet-is-down/ I have a Dell Studio 17 for my office computer. It's a nice machine, but Vista fails horribly on it. The ATI driver for it causes a BSoD on average, once a day. I've finally had enough, so I'm switching over to Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex. I'm writing this post as ... http://gaarai.com/2009/01/01/setting-up-ubuntu-on-my-dell-studio-17/ For about eight years now, I've been hapily using Crimson Editor. At its simplest, Crimson Editor is nothing more than a fancy Notepad; however, it is so much more than that. While it doesn't have all sorts of fancy tools that some editors have, it does support customizable syntax highlighting, ... http://gaarai.com/2008/10/27/i-still-dont-like-fancy-programming-editors/ I've always been a big fan of AMVs. Years ago, I would find and archive my favorites and then show them to my buddies when we'd hang out at IHOP. It was always a great way to start conversations about music and anime. Over the years, my focus on AMVs ... http://gaarai.com/2008/10/24/discovering-amvs-again/ Web applications developers such as myself often have a hard time keeping up with everything that's going on. There's always some new programming or scripting language, new standards, new browsers, new technologies, new paradigms, new social networks, and on and on. Every day, something new happens. The end result of ... http://gaarai.com/2008/10/23/optimize-mysql-configuration-and-performance/ If you ever need to work with DNS servers or domain management, you find tools that help you get an outside perspective of what is happening with DNS invaluable. Years ago I found DNSStuff and immediately fell in love. They have tons of tools that give a wealth of information. ... http://gaarai.com/2008/10/21/no-longer-a-dnsstuff-fan/ Sorry for the lack of updates. Much has happened in the past couple of months. I aim to get things back on track and keep the updates rolling. I also think that the content that I'm going to be producing will be much more valuable to my readers. What's Happened Shortly after ... http://gaarai.com/2008/10/20/a-long-overdue-update/