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  • Linux – Find what is Preventing You from Unmounting a Drive

    Disclaimer: I’ve had this problem for probably four months, ever since I started running Plex Media Server on my headless linux machine at home, whilst storing all my actual media on a nice external portable drive. Usually I just yank it, but then I watch the drive letters run themselves up obscenely high before I…

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    About Me Umm..so I’m an Electrical Engineering Technician in Colorado. And I’m into computers, so you can probably see why in the world so many of these posts are on computers and technology. Currently, I’m working as a programmer, firmware designer and web developer at Colorado Power Electronics in Fort Collins. That and I am pretty set…

  • Finally! An internal DNS server that works (for me)!

    So it’s been much too long since I wanted to do this, but thankfully, I have finally discovered the solution for which I can serve up my own DNS server for internal LAN things, but still have an external host that administers my public website! My scenario and quandry was this:

  • Ruby on Rails for Windows

    It was only recently that I FINALLY figured out just what Ruby on Rails is. From most of the posts I saw all I could make of it was “it’s the thing that runs Twitter.” Okay..so what’s it DO? Well as it turns out, from what I can make of it, Rails is a new…

  • Ubuntu Server – Changing Screen Resolution with GRUB2

    Recently I drug out my old Dell dinosaur (Dimension) from the closet and decided to try installing Ubuntu server onto it. Well, all went well until I also attempted to add the Xubuntu-Desktop package, so I could better run around and do things in there. A quick update for an nVidia graphics driver froze the…

  • 10-31-09

    So I felt like making a comment. I’ve finally noticed that the rest of the family is getting into this whole ‘blagging’ thing also. Of course, my dad’s had one for years, but he never did anything for it until recently when my sister got one also. Seems they’re finally getting out there..finally. Anyhow, I’ve…