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Defining Best of Breed in IT

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:00:42 +0000

Introduction

Soon I’ll be starting a new position with a company which produces some of the highest quality products in their industry. The company’s products are of such high quality that they typically set the bar in their industry. This made me think of what a truly comprises an excellent solution within the Information Technology. This article is a non-technical personal view of what defines the “Best of breed” technical solutions.

Linux: Headless Ubuntu Torrent Home Server

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:45:15 +0000

So it got to that time of the year where I feel the itch to upgrade my aging home server. I assessed the situation and realized that, for what it does, my current server does not need any kind of hardware upgrade. So I just decided to rebuild it with Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit and change up the server software a bit to be more accessible to my wife as well as to be a bit more modern (torrentflux and derivatives have been dead for a while now).

CSS: Pretty Code Snippet Formatting

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:58:12 +0000

I forgot where I dredged this up from but here is how I do my code/script posts. I modified the default theme css and add the following for pre-formatted text:

pre {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
background: #000000;
color: #21FF2C;
}

Funny: Microsoft Goes Chick-Flick

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:02:28 +0000

My wife saw this on my laptop screen while we were on a plane trip. She pointed to it, and said “Awwwww!!” as if I were reading a book on relationships rather than a technical pdf going over general SCOM 2007 concepts.

Microsoft gets a bit soft...