Here’s a few good articles on the collective guesswork for when the Fed will change interest rates. In case you need help sleeping
The futures seem to be betting that it will stay unchanged until at least November.
This guy has my type of sense of humor
Several weeks ago now, I picked up one of the tiny linux-based HP Media Vaults (mv2120). The advantage of this one over those Windows based media jobbies was that it supported NFS to make my Linux universe happy. Or at least supposedly it does. To speed things along, I mounted the device using CIFS. All the files are copied over now, so I can power-down our slowly-getting-flaky-Celeron-300-Mandrake-older-than-time file server. It feels good to have 500 GB laying around waiting for abuse.
Update: I had some CIFS file permissions problems – stuff was getting set non-writable and causing headaches. This fixed it:
use the ‘noperm’ options, thus:
//serverIP/public /media/nas cifs
credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,noperm 0 0Bingo! But what an awful solution, eh?! As it happens, I’m the only
person logging on to this machine, so maybe it doesn’t matter. But how
do folk on shared systems deal with this? (There seem to be a lot of
cheesed off cifs users around, from what I’ve seen!)
The next time there are mass-presentations, I’m e-mailing this around to my coworkers
I have a new and shiny toy. Unfortunately, it’s a pain to rip DVDs to put the video on the iPod Touch. This combination looks like it’ll work.
Hulu is a free video service run by the major movie and TV studios. And they’ve posted the first season of Babylon 5. Sweet. They also have Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. Maybe building a Entertainment PC would’ve been better than getting that Tivo.
I like it when companies creatively beat each other over the head.
This hits just a little too close to home
CNN is running a series on 11 great green ideas. #3 was a new company called RecycleBank. They’re doing a variation on paying you to recycle, but they’re in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York so they’re doing something right.
Good luck to ’em!
I got tired of falling behind in a web 2.0 world, so out with the old webpage, in with this one. It’ll be blogtastic. I’ll be screwing around with plug-ins and themes for the next few weeks, so it’ll be pretty erratic around here.
At least I will after the WordPress Themes archive is working…