Musings of a technophile

OnLive is a new gaming service which will basically let you play PC games, even if you don’t have a beefed up gaming PC. How it does this is simple: The game runs through cloud servers (basically multiple servers working as one), and the outputted video is streamed to your PC. As you play the game, the input is sent back to the server in order to control your… Continue reading

I’m not “industry insider” or anything, but if I have any qualities it’s that I can find problems in things very easy. On one hand that makes me a good problem solver, on the other hand it makes me seem like a very pessimistic person. In any case, Throughout the last weeks I’ve noticed some problems that have occurred regarding Apple’s iPhone 4. I’m sure there are thousands of posts… Continue reading

First, you need to install the nagios-nrpe-server. There is a nagios-nrpe-plugin but that’s not what you need because that is just the plugin and you need this daemon (Linux equivalent of a Windows Service for all you Windows guys).

sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server

next, we should check and make sure that the service is actually running. We can do this two ways
sudo ps -Al | grep nrpe… Continue reading

I have an old PowerEdge 2650 that I needed to upgrade to some version of Windows Enterprise at my work as I needed to have more than 4GB of RAM available (in case for some reason you didn’t know Windows Server Standard only allows 4GB). Being that I’m currently upgrading various servers to Windows Server 2008, I decided to try and attempt upgrading this server to that. If you want… Continue reading

So I needed a new laptop for the boys as they were previously using my old Dell Inspiron 3800 (a.k.a. the 600 Mhz brick). The problem with the old laptop was that it can’t really play flash games, so sites like Starfall.com don’t work.

I spent a week looking on Ebay for a $100 laptop and finally came across a Dell XPS M170 laptop. It has a 2Ghz… Continue reading

If you are on the fence about which Anti-virus program to go with next, I could probably give you some suggestions. While Kaspersky is spoken of the Internet over, I tried them last year and really in the last year and a half their development team has taken a nose dive. Their newest version has some SERIOUS issues that leads to slow performance on desktop computers, and the server component… Continue reading

So we needed another crib mattress for Kaden, but we didn’t neccessarily want to buy a new one when Logan would be moving out iof his toddler bed (uses a crib mattress) soon anyways. So, we finally decided to get the Kura bunk bed from Ikea… Continue reading

First off I should say that setting up a anonymous connector kinda goes against best practices. You should always try to have some sort of authentication method for your SMTP connectors. That being said, it’s not always possible or it will take additional steps to set that up, and right now you just need to get this working right? :)

In order to create an anonymous connector, you need… Continue reading

The trailer is out for Dead Space 2, have a look here.

Dead Space was one of my favorite games last year, so I really can’t wait for this one to come out. The combination of the emptiness of space and the horror that can occur is awesome. You step into a room through an airlock and that room has a hole into space where meteor hit the… Continue reading

So, I’m not really the one who does the “cleaning” at our house. I mean, I pick up toys and put away dishes and stuff, but when it comes to mopping, vacuuming, scrubbing, etc., well…that stuff just magically does itself at my house (either that or my wife is doing it…hmm…I wonder).

Anyways, since Kaden was born last week, I have been staying home to help with the duties… Continue reading