20/20 Piece About Heavy Metal from the 80s
20/20 Piece About Heavy Metal from the 80s
Author Archives: Brian Shaffer
12 Tips To Help You Communicate With Your Developers
I Don’t usually blog just to reproduce another thing I already saw, hense the slowness in new post. But I keep going back to this one.. It could be because I haven’t slept in two days or maybe I keep going back because it’s perfect… The article was here: http://blogs.sitepoint.com/12-tips-for-better-developer-communication/ I’ll Feel bad for reprinting… Read More »
The Commodore 64 is Back!
Thats right, the machine that made home computer history in 1982 is coming back. Commodore had quite a history starting back in 1954, but never really hit it big until the early 80s when they managed to bring affordable personal computers into peoples living rooms. Personally my very first computer was a Commodore Vic 20,… Read More »
Compiling Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 Under Debian.
This post is out of date! An Updated post with a new script is here: http://shafe.n5net.com/2013/01/09/compiling-darwin-streaming-server-6-0-3-under-debian-updated/ I was recently tasked with a Linux install of Darwin Streaming Server on a Debian server. Unfortunately for me Apple stopped making Windows and Linux builds of DSS when version 6.0 was released. After a lot of failed attempts at… Read More »
Kill The Hippies Game
Kill The Hippies Game Hehe.. was just looking at this again… Of course when I first stumbled upon it I couldn’t resist, I had to buy this game. Looked too funny! From the description: Kill the Hippies a fun satirical card game. Play a Fundie religious group or person out to kill the Hippies. Each… Read More »
Web Series: Pioneer One
Pioneer One is a web series that is gaining a lot of momentum with the drama and sci-fi fanbases alike. The creators initially raised $6000 for the pilot through the funding site Kickstarter.com. Within the first week the pilot episode had been downloaded 420,000 times, 170,000 more downloads than predicted. Distributed through vodo, bit-torrent… Read More »
Help Mom, There are liberals under the bed!
Kids Book??? In case you missed this monstrosity, I present to you Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Kill me now…. From the description on Amazon.com: This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along… Read More »
IPv4 Countdown, down to the days.
Are you ready for IPv6? Only a few days left until the ipv4 apocalypse. Some interesting links: Fox news has no idea what they are reporting on: “Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 — a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones.” http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/ Twitter Feed… Read More »
Yahoo Branding Fail
The brand managers at Yahoo are genius… (sarcasm). I just got an email from Yahoo that started out like this: Dear Yahoo! Calendar and Yahoo! Notepad Customer, Yahoo! Calendar Beta will soon be renamed “All-New Yahoo! Calendar,” and Yahoo! Notepad Beta will soon be renamed “All-New Yahoo! Notepad.”…. Seems worthy of a mass email, don’t… Read More »
Quick Debian Server Provisioning Script
Here is a quick little bash script that I use to initially provision Debian LAMP servers from a fresh install. This should setup PHP with all the whistles and bells, a whole handful of utilities as well as install webmin for you. Nothing to complicated here, just a quick little script to speed up your… Read More »