This is for installing and running Sybase ASE 12.5 on a Fedora Core 1 box. The basic notes are derived from this Usenet posting. Basically, the tar ball and subsequent RPM from Sybase installs without too much of an issue. The main trick at this point is to set the shared memory [...]
A few weeks ago, the “replace filter” light lit up on the old Bionaire UA1560 air cleaner I’ve had for a few years. We’ve gone through a couple filter changes before and noted that the thing is fundamentally a HEPA filter attached to a 50-cent fan; most of the cost is filter replacement. [...]
Way back at the beginning of the year, I had my annual physical, and the blood work showed my cholesterol was high, along with the usual suspects: triglycerides, LDL:HDL ratio, and so on. I was also 10-15 pounds heavier than I usually am. This is what happens when you schedule routine medical exams [...]
I think everyone should take a course or two in microeconomics. Children should be taught the notion of opportunity cost early on. Models of supply and demand should be shown in high school at the latest, along Smith’s pin factory and some notion of how to read macroeconomic news. And, of course, [...]
In the opening pages of Snow Crash, Stephenson notes that every man, until he is about twenty-five, occassionally believes that, if only he takes a few years off and studies in a Shaolin temple in China somewhere, he could be the biggest badass in the world. This is a generalized case of “green belt’s [...]
Oh crap. The internal contradictions in my attitude towards the Treo 600 is now almost at crisis: they’re now available for T-Mobile.
I want this phone. I just don’t feel like buying it for $400 after the upgrade discount.
I’m basically without excuses now. I’ll probably put this off until the discount is almost [...]
I think I saw the reference on BoingBoing, but Luminous Landscape has a very nice series of photography tutorials online. The site belongs to a landscape photographer who works in both digital and film, and looks fairly instructive. For example, here’s a discussion of exposure, which I don’t really have a feel for. [...]