http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ en-us doug@shoutstudios.com 2007-01-25T11:26:12-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000366.html Two and a half weeks ago, my laptop decided to start locking up on me. Turns out, one of the memory chips was testing bad and causing the lockups. I've now been limping along for the past two and a... 366@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2007-01-25T11:26:12-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000365.html Aside from a dead hard drive a year and a half ago, my Dell Inspiron 8200 has been running rock solid sine I bought it five and a half years ago. Now that I'm beginning to use it much more... 365@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2007-01-08T08:11:20-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000327.html I came across this really cool looking image of a cometary globule shaped like an eel appearing to chase down a spiral galaxy for lunch. The article describes it as a region of gas that is star forming in our... 327@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2006-03-10T07:55:53-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000307.html John and I have been using SVN for a while for a joint project, and I finally decided it's time to switch my repositories for my personal projects. I got SVN and CVS2SVN installed easily, thanks to portage, but it... 307@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2005-11-11T21:33:49-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000279.html While trying to add the gnome-keyboard-applet to my gnome 2.8 panel, (in order to switch to Dvorak), I managed to stumble upon a problem I had a while back. For some reason, adding this applet causes the gnome-panel to crash,... 279@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-08-29T11:51:44-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000275.html Much like John, I will not be using the new Google Talk in favor of my own private Jabber server with which I can encrypt and tunnel my messages between my laptop and server. It is a hope, however, that... 275@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2005-08-24T09:36:41-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000232.html I finally bit the bullet and just went out and bought a D-Link DBT-120 bluetooth dongle since I was going to pay the same amount, if not more, trying to win one on e-bay, plus I would have to wait... 232@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-02-09T13:19:52-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000224.html Now that I have finally got my Sony Ericsson T637 Bluetooth enabled phone, the fun has begun with setting up the bluetooth on my Gentoo laptop. I currently have a couple of bids in on ebay for a D-Link DBT-120... 224@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-01-28T14:53:19-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000193.html Much to my delight today, when I went to check on my Dell order for a new server, I realized that it had shipped this morning and was on it's way to the carrier. Who knows how long it will... 193@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-09-13T19:38:41-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000192.html Last Thursday, I orderd a new server from Dell. I did my homework and found that the prebuilt Dell servers were the best bang for the buck, and aside from the issue with my hard drive shipping, I had never... 192@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-09-09T13:34:30-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000190.html It's been a long time since I've posted, but I have a new toy coming! Over the course of the past couple of weeks, lonestar (my mail and DNS server running on a 486) has been having it's share of... 190@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-09-07T17:42:53-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000183.html Monday, while sitting at work, my hard drive died in my laptop. So, Tuesday, I pulled up Dell's website and orderd a new 40GB drive. The website said "Normally ships within 24 hours", and I paid for overnight delivery. Worst... 183@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-07-30T18:07:02-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000181.html While sitting at my desk this afternoon, I started to hear my laptop making a clicking noise. I decided to power it down, not knowing what the cause was. When I booted it back up, the computer complained that it... 181@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-07-26T15:55:06-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000113.html For the past several years, I have been reading my news for MSNBC. I have liked their layout, their journalistic style, and their partisan slide to the stories that they run. But lately, I have become disappointed with them. I... 113@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2004-03-18T11:57:07-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000015.html Alright, all my friends seem to have had the time lately to improve the look and feel of their blogs. I guess I just need to get on the ball and do something about mine. It's still just the cookie... 15@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Computers 2003-11-21T23:27:37-05:00