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In preparation for my trip, I did pretty extensive research on computer hardware to find what I was going to haul around with me to stay connected.
I couldn’t find this information elsewhere so I’m posting it for posterity. It’s a basic comparison of how the IBM X-series notebooks stack up against each other and [...]

In rebuilding our mail server last month, I added Courier’s IMAP server enabling us to keep mail on the server instead of always downloading it. You might want to do this if you access your email with multiple devices and you want to see all your emails regardless of whether you connect via Thunderbird, [...]

I’m cleaning out my inbox as I transition from POP3 to IMAP and I thought I’d share this bit of tortuous research I went through a few years ago. In California, it is legally possible to take traffic school more than once every 18 months. It is not the default policy, but if [...]

What a nightmare. My longtime mail server lost power at the colo facility about a month ago and when it came back up, it only recognized one processor. It’s been bloody slow since so this weekend I went in with an extra gig of ram and two servers worth of spare parts to [...]

A low-tech fix for bullet camera contrast and white-balance in high contrast conditions (e.g., the inside of a racecar)

I just got myself a new machine to use as a dedicated database server for MotorsportReg.com. I run Postgres and wanted to figure out the fastest configuration for this machine (running a fresh install of CentOS 4.2 with non-critical daemons turned off). I ran the tests and have uploaded the results in HTML [...]

Everything I learned about towing (heavy) trailers in the state of California by scouring the web and contacting DMV.

How to setup Nuclear Elephant’s DSPAM server-side filtering agent with Dan Bernstein’s Qmail (along with virtual host software vpopmail).