Notable compute figures battle it out

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 […]

Lens wipeout

Total bummer. Stopped to take a few shots of some elk bucks along side the road and the strap of my camera caught on my bikes mirror. Bye bye F2.8 35-75mm lens. Yes it’s an expensive loss, but what really pisses me off is that I am left with a 300mm lens and my phone […]

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 […]