Michael Arrington And Tom Cruise
June 28, 2010
Dead-on Cruise cackle aside, “Tom Cruise” is actually Evan Ferrante, an actor and producer who launched his Hollywood career on his uncanny knack for mimicking Cruise’s swagger and yes, memorizing virtually every line in Jerry Maguire and Top Gun.
What started off as a way to meet women in college with his friend (who of course, had a natural Jean-Claude Van Damme impression), quickly turned into a handful of viral videos on YouTube and FunnyOrDie, and ultimately a legitimate career.
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Domain Registry of America (droa.com)
June 19, 2009
Whatever you do, I would recommend staying away from this company.
If you have them host your DNS, you can not make simple changes such as modifying the TTL of your domain.
I just had a conversation with a tech, “Alex”. He was adamant that TTL settings are set across the board to 1 day (86400), and that it is their policy that this can not be changed. They run Linux Bind DNS systems, which means this is about as simple of a DNS change as can be made.
It seems they just resell godaddy domains, so if nothing else just get your domains through godaddy and use thier DNS management interface.
Should Hewlett-Packard send me a loaner laptop?
September 11, 2008
I bought an HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop in June of 2007. I had experienced strange issues soon after using the laptop, but thought these issues were Vista related. The issue I experienced from the time of purchase was:
- The notebook does not detect wireless networks and the wireless adapter is not detected in the Device Manager. [sporadically]
It was not until recently, when I read about this, this and this, that I started to search on HP’s website and found a Limited Warranty Service Enhancement for my laptop. I thought this was a good thing, but I didn’t want to go through the ordeal of replacing my laptop for something that was a minor inconvenience. Read more
Yahoo and Microsoft, what happens to Zimbra?
March 10, 2008
What will become of Zimbra if Microsoft acquires Yahoo? For those not familiar with Zimbra, it is a great open source email collaboration suite, with a nice (the nicest?) web front end and easy to use administration interface.
Check out the demo here.
Google Charts API, the simple way to create a chart.
March 8, 2008
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the link below into a browser. You will end up seeing the cart on the left.
Desktop virtualization. Not all it’s cracked up to be?
March 8, 2008
Citrix Systems, EMC’s VMware unit, Microsoft, Symantec, and other big dogs have shelled out more than $2 billion on acquisitions related to desktop virtualization in less than two years. But now that they’ve got the technology, it’s not at all clear that customers will buy it. Read more
Xen virtualization notes
March 8, 2008
I have recently been working virtualizing Windows and Linux machines using Xen. A few things popped up along the way and a bit of research was done to make things work properly, these are some of the notes I used along the way.
– I am partial to using LVM based devices for creating my virtual machines. Think lvm snapshots for backups.
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