Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
This week was what is becoming my annual pilgrimage to Santa Clara, California for EclipseCon. Last year during the conference I took CalTrain from Mountain View to San Francisco to have dinner with Kenneth. It was there that I noted that NetworkManager unceremoniously crashed my…
About a week ago I picked an M3 DS Real card for my Nintendo DS for playing homebrew, and more importantly, watching movies on a series of annoyingly long flights in the coming months. After a moderate amount of fighting, including finding out that the…
One of the major issues with utilizing a virtual machine for a server is that of time synchronization. VMWare normally has access to a real time clock handler that helps to synchronize time, but even that causes time to skew. This issue becomes more prominent…
This morning while sitting in my office, I received a telephone call from a presidential campaign seeking a donation. I found this interesting because I have yet to donate to any presidential candidate this year. While I was more than happy to donate some money…
Recently, there were two enormous acquisitions in the world of Open Source Software. Back in January, Sun Microsystems announced it was purchasing MySQL for $1 billion. About two weeks later, Nokia announced it was acquiring Trolltech for $153 million, about a seventh of what was…
Last Friday, I had the chance to hear CMU SCS Ph.D. alum, and president of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee speak on the building Google China and what it means to do business in China versus the United States. It reminded me of the fact that…
I was looking for a store in the South Hills of Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and wanted to make sure that I found the store okay, enter Google Street View. I popped up the location into Google Maps and started looking around. Yech, it…
In August of 2007, Jeff Atwood wrote an article about Thirteen Blog Clichés. While there is some irony in the sense that one thing that he said he hated was blogging about blogging, and that’s what that article is, it generally contains some pretty useful…
First of all, I cheated a little, it’s been 24 hours and 51 minutes since I started my little challenge yesterday afternoon. I started with no code written, no database schema, and no HTML templates. As of right now, I have a system that has…
I’ve had a weblog of some sort since my early 1998 – back before they were called weblogs. Originally it was a set of PHP 3 scripts that talked to a MySQL database, pretty high-tech stuff for the era. In 2001 I moved over to…