Feline nerd

Searching for a viable Facebook/Twitter alternative

Spent a decent number of hours over the weekend looking at the field of OSS and private Facebook and Twitter alternatives. Initially, the two that leaped out at me were Diaspora* and Mastodon. I decided to take a shot at installing Diaspora, in spite of it’s messed up name, because it is pro-ported to be […]

Cable cabal

I know some of you have already “cut the cable.” One does wonder how long the $200/month fees from big cable are going to hold out in the face of al la carte pricing via streaming. https://news.yahoo.com/dish-unveils-sling-tv-video-streaming-180105375–finance.html

Rm -r disaster

Didn’t realize I had a simlink buried in the directory to an NFS mount pointing back at my main NAS video media directory. Arrrrgggg! And no there isn’t a backup for everything. Too many video Tb’s and it was on a Raid5. Yes you can say it… “Takes some kind of stupid kid!” Goes to […]