Lots of snow coming down today. I was starting to feel like winter was tapering off with the nice weather that we have had recently. Late this morning it started coming down in big, soft flakes at a pretty steady pace. I got a bit of a late start this morning. Liesl tends to cause …
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Time Sync on VMWare Based Linux
In many cases it can be quite difficult to accuracy keep time on a virtualized operating system due to the complex interactions between the hardware, host operating system, virtualization layer and the guest operating system. In my case I found that running Red Hat Linux 5 (CentOS 5) on VMWare Server 1.0.8 resulted in an …
Bones Season 3 Episode 7 Massive Amiga Blunder
So today Dominica was watching Bones, season 3 episode 7. She came down to tell me that they had put an Amiga from 1987 into the show and that I had to take a look. Of course, no one in Hollywood bothers to check anything at all or to even state the obvious correctly. They …
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February 17, 2009: Memories of Schoolbuses
Back to work today. Not that I don’t work on the weekend or holidays but it definitely feels quite a bit different on an official work day. Yesterday was very slow at the office and it really was almost completely a holiday. Good enough for me. The last thing that I want to do is …
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February 16, 2009: Model Railroading for Prez Day
Today is President’s day and the market is closed so I have the day off from work, more or less. My idea was that today would be a pretty big model railroading day. I have been looking for a chance to really sit down and get some modeling done. We slept in a lot this …
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