Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Last weekend, while checking my usual daily websites....I came across mention of a gadget on gdgt called WakeMate. I have been toying with the idea of getting one of these gadgets for years, decades? Definitely well before I learned of my sleep disorde… more »

Decided to go ahead and upgrade to 3.3.3, even though the dashboard said I was already running the latest version at 3.3.2. more »

wonder if I'll continue and upgrade to 3.3.3 .... more »

I haven't used my AppleTV in a while, but I've been meaning to sit down and use it....and I sense with the coming holidays that I might have time to sit down and do some marathon watching of stuff. So, I've been meaning to let the AppleTV upgrade to t… more »

Found another problem with my karmic upgrade of 'box'. The clocks on everything were starting to drift....well 'box' is my NTP server. I check the ntp.conf, and it was still correct. Then I realized ntp started while bind wasn't....so it omitted a t… more »

With a couple hours to kill this morning, I decided to see about upgrading 'box' to karmic. Ideally it should've been LTS, but that's another story.... It gave an estimate of one hour to download. Well, it ended up taking those couple of hours. And… more »

I hadn't intended to start upgrading systems to Karmic Koala so soon...since the servers are kind of pegged with other people downloading and upgrading. But, playing around with do-release-upgrade on my Ubuntu server at work....at first (on Thursday) it… more »

Wonder if the people at Xantrex or Amazon.com are wondering what's with all the PowerSource 400s I've been buying? The latest acquisition brings the total to 5. With the latest being the 3rd unit in one room. Somewhere in a past shuffle/outage...I… more »

Once again the stock getmail.php didn't work after a significant upgrade in b2evolution version.After a long and complicated battle, I have something that should work....we'll find out tomorrow.First I had to do was add these two lines to 'inc/_c… more »

:cool: Yay! Asynchronous twitter notification of blog posts are working now.What did I do? Why I upgraded to 3.3.1....Realizing that today is a holiday and the weekly backup of my blog takes place on Monday morning, I decided that maybe sometime… more »

Let's see if the latest muck up of my blog makes the twitter plugin work correctly in asynchronous mode. more »

Guess the upgrade to 2.4.7 didn't fix the problem. more »