i was applying some updates to my mirabox recently (which was running debian wheezy) and i decided hey why don’t i see if i can upgrade this thing to debian jessie. this ended up being a big mistake. jessie installs a version of udev that requires a newer kernel than supplied by the mirabox. i […]

for some reason i waited a whole year to write about this. highlights: Buttered chicken with micro cilantro (africa) “Le Cellier” wild mushroom beef filet mignon (canada) Frozen Dominican piña colada (dom. republic) Lechón asado: Roasted pork with mangú (dom. republic) Kielbasa and potato pierogi (poland) Coconut Porter Float (desserts/champagne) Tacos de camarón (mexico) Frozen […]

when i was younger i used to be one of the types of people that was always eager to play with the latest gadgets. i had high hopes for the pocketpc PDAs and bought one during their heyday. like most people i imagine, i stopped using it after a year or so. for me…it simply […]

a month or so ago i was checking dell’s website for new laptops that came with haswell processors. i was interested in researching the new latitude models and hoping to find something with at least a 15 inch display (i was aware of the latitude 14 7000 series already). much to my dismay, i found […]

recently i needed to update the licensing on two 5.x esxi hosts with expired licenses. interestingly enough, it appeared as though the task could not be accomplished from the windows vsphere client. i couldn’t apply the licenses in vcenter either since vcenter was a vm that was currently down (because of the expired host licenses). […]