I had to reboot one of my computers, which a pretty rare occurrence around here.
The machine is a few years old Dell Dimension e520.
The problem: The computer wouldn’t reboot. After running through a little RAID dialog, the computer just hung, right after showing the message “Press Ctrl-I to enter configuration utility”.
The solution: I [...]
I started shaving with a double-edge (DE) razor about 1 month ago. When I started out, I initially purchased 100 Shark blades from Amazon based on a recommendation from a user on Reddit.
The blades had excellent reviews, and at only 18 cents per blade, how could I go wrong, right?
Wrong.
I’ve since come to [...]
So, I have about 500 zipped up files that I needed to unzip.
Each of these files is about 100M when decompressed.
I ran into a big problem when unzipping the files all at once – when I did a simple “unzip \*zip", the server load eventually skyrocketed.
The load got so high, in fact, [...]
I was unzipping a boatload of zip files today, and I casually entered “unzip *zip” into my Linux command line.
No way, said my system.
Instead of unzipping the files, I got a bunch of warnings that read: “caution: filename not matched,” followed by a filename. At the end of the listing, unzip told me “1 archive [...]
A new-ish company named Van der Hagen produces an inexpensive glycerin shave soap for use with double edge (DE) razors and straight razors. The soap is surprisingly well regarded by the shaving community, and sells at your local Walmart for just $1.50.
For $1.50, I had to give it a shot.
I initially had a lot of [...]
I had a coupon for a few free Audible audio book downloads, so I picked out a book at Audible.com and decided to check it out. Little did I know that this seemingly innocuous action would pitch me into an hour long journey of frustration and despair.
I went to the Audible site and saw that [...]
So someone added you to a Twitter list like “dummies,” or “mean people,” or “jerks,” eh? It’s mean. I know. And Twitter doesn’t provide any good way for you to get off of that list.
The worst part is, when someone browses to your Twitter profile, they’ll be presented with a listing of “lists” that you’re [...]
Don’t. Just don’t.
As mentioned here, I tried using canned cream with my safety razor and it didn’t go so well.
I did it because I’m new to traditional wet shaving, and while I had a DE razor and some shave soap on hand, my brush hadn’t yet arrived in the mail. I was anxious to get [...]
I’ve always thought that the Kindle has way too big of margins.
So much of the screen seems wasted on huge margins. Yeah, it produces a prettier pictures when photographing the Kindle, but if you prefer a little bit larger text size, these large margin cuts down on the number of words-per-page significantly.
I wanted those [...]
There are a bunch of GUI utilities for conducting port scans, but I prefer to work from a command line shell.
In the past, I’ve used a custom script for scanning a machine for open ports from the command line, but I recently needed to get a little more information from a scan than my [...]
So you have a safety razor and soap but no shaving brush, eh?
I found myself in this exact predicament when I first ordered my shaving supplies. I got everything in the mail on the same day, except for the shaving brush. I was anxious to get started, but I didn’t have any idea how [...]
If you’re new to shaving with a traditional safety razor, you probably have a ton of questions.
There’s good news: There are a ton of answers out there on the internet, including a bunch of excellent Youtube videos that will answer nearly any question you may have.
I don’t intend my site to provide a bunch [...]
I recently started wet-shaving with a safety razor, as discussed here.
Shaving with a safety razor definitely has it’s upsides, but there are downsides as well.
As with anything in life, there are tradeoffs. When choosing to shave with a safety razor, you’re foregoing the speed & convenience of a modern shaving cartridge system for a more [...]
I recently started shaving with a safety razor.
For those unfamiliar with the term, a safety razor is an “old-school” metal razor with replaceable feather-light blades.
Think of the type of razor your grandfather probably used – that’s the sort of razor I’m talking about.
I chose to start shaving with a safety razor for a [...]
As an entrepreneur, one of the most important decisions you will make is where to locate your business.
For many involved in online sales, location is unimportant. But if you’re in the restaurant or retail sector, location is everything.
I came across this list of the Ten Strongest Retail Markets in the US. The list was [...]
Egads, my 2G iPhone won’t turn on!
Well to be more accurate, it will turn on, but it will only show the Apple logo, and then turns off after 5-10 seconds.
I have no idea what caused this – I connected it to the charger one night, came back the next morning, and it had the problem. [...]
All of this fuss over Rebecca Black and her surprise hit “Friday” got me to thinking.
“Hmm, what are some songs about other days of the week?”
I put this list together using my music collection and a few internet searches. I’ve left out the songs that I’ve never heard of before, so if I omitted your [...]
Yay, Shark Tank is back on ABC!
I’ve written about the show Shark Tank before. It’s a show where inventors & business owners pitch their idea to a group of investors who then choose whether or not to fund the invest in their company.
From what I understand, Shark Tank is based on the UK’s Dragons’ [...]
I haven’t been making smoothies at home for a long time, so I nearly forgot all of my recipes!
In trying to rediscover how I used to do things, I came up with a pretty good concoction.
This one has flax seeds – you’re going to want to grind that up in the blender before adding [...]
I heard that my favorite skeptics Penn & Teller were going to be on XM radio so I headed over to the Sirius/XM website to have a listen. I hit the main page and signed up for a “free” trial. “Sweet!,” I thought. “30 days free!”
Nope. Not quite.
Because step two of the “free” XM [...]
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