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Going Offline - kinda

Wed, 01/30/2008 - 04:30 — sgrover

My server will be moving in the next day or two. So all the sites hosted on it will be offline for a short bit. This includes the following:

Computer problems resolved [UPDATED]

Wed, 01/16/2008 - 19:50 — sgrover

UPDATE: Turns out I was a little premature on my excitement. A few hours later, the motherboard cratered on me. Digging deeper reveals one of three common issues with this motherboard - a) the board refuses to recognize the video card's RAM, b), the board may not be getting enough power (even with a 485W PSU), and c) the motherboard does not supply enough voltage to the memory sticks (it supplies 1.9 volts, with more recent and performance memory requiring 2.0 or more). End result for me was to abandon the Asus M2N-E - it just wasn't working with the equipment I had.

Yet more computer frustrations

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 20:35 — sgrover

My motherboard went belly up. These things happen, and are expected. But, there are some days when I want to throw computers through a window.

Large RAM (continued) & 64 Bit Ubuntu

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 03:16 — sgrover

As mentioned in my last post, I was looking to install 64 bit Ubuntu so I could take advantage of ALL the RAM I had in the box (all 5 GB, for now). So I went ahead and installed the 64 bit version of Kubuntu (I prefer KDE).

The memory issue was SO much of a done deal that it's almost not even worth writing about. A simple installation, and all my RAM was used just fine. No fuss.

Lessons in Large RAM

Sat, 01/12/2008 - 03:55 — sgrover

I noticed some performance problems when I was running two virtual machines simultaneously (a la VMWare Server). When I began looking into this I discovered VMWare was only allowing 1.8 GB of RAM usage for my virtual machines. This struck me as odd because my desktop box was supposed to have 4 GB of RAM. Or so I thought. After some checking I discovered I had been confused with another box, and my desktop did in fact only have 2 GB of RAM. Well now, I had to fix that.

Ubuntu and ColdFusion 8? You bet!

Thu, 01/10/2008 - 21:17 — sgrover

Some of my customers use ColdFusion for their web application needs, rather than ASP.NET, or PHP. ColdFusion is a good language for rapid development, and is flexible enough to handle just about any task you can think of. But getting ColdFusion running on a Linux server has always been a bit of a challenge. The last time I tried, CF expected files to be in very specific locations - typically the Red Hat file structure.

Why I won't use KMail?

Sun, 01/06/2008 - 18:55 — sgrover

There is an article posted where a fellow (who goes by "Computer Bob") had some bad experiences with KMail and declares to the world that "this KMail problem makes Linux look bad". Well, I'm not here to dispute the problems he had. I WILL dispute though that KMail is the same as "Linux".

CSS / JS Coding challenge

Tue, 01/01/2008 - 03:16 — sgrover

You know how you can have fixed rows and columns in a spreadsheet? So that when you scroll up/down, the fixed columns (aka row headers) scroll with you, but stay in place when you scroll left/right. And the fixed rows (aka column headers) stay in place when you scroll up/down, but scroll when you move left/right. Well, try to make that happen in a web page using native HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays !!

Sun, 12/23/2007 - 05:05 — sgrover

I'd like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays for the politically correct). May you and your families have a very pleasant holiday and Happy New Year!

New look for the site

Fri, 12/21/2007 - 03:17 — sgrover

I was looking for a theme to use on another site I was in the process of setting up (http://jquery.open2space.com - a site for jQuery HowTo's). I came across a nice theme called "tech" which I liked. Once I put this in place for the jQuery HowTo site, I found I REALLY liked it, so decided to switch Grover Ponders over to it.

There were some issues I needed to sort out, but these were minor CSS changes. The only thing I really have left to fix is to get my little logo showing up again. Hopefully I'll have that resolved by the time you read this.

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