The Codex Sinaiticus is a Greek hand-written manuscript of the Old and New Testaments. It was written in the 4th century, in uncial letters. It came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at the Greek Monastery of Mount Sinai, with further material discovered in the 20th century, and most of it is […]
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Top anti-drink cop caught drunk driving
A senior Tokyo police official tasked with keeping the city’s roads clear of drunk drivers has been arrested for driving under the influence, police said on Tuesday. The deputy inspector, on his way home from a camping site, was caught late on Monday after bumping into another car and veering off the road, said a […]
15 reasons Macs are still better than Windows PCs
Does Microsoft have the upper hand over OS X. Here’s 15 reasons why it doesn’t. 1. Reliable sleep mode. 2. Extremely fast boot times. 3. Apple uses good quality parts. 4. Less blinking lights. 5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows. 6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs. 7. A culture of good quality […]
XBMC – Media Center
One thing which I don’t do enough of is to recommend bits of software which I come across. Today I found XBMC which is a XBMC is media center application for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and XBox. XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats. XBMC has a […]
Excerpt from my Book: Configuring storage in FreeNAS
Linux.com has published an excerpt from my book. The excerpt is called “Configuring storage in FreeNAS”… Here is an excerpt from the excerpt!!! The essence of the FreeNAS server is to provide storage that is easily accessible from the network. To this end, it is important to understand how FreeNAS handles hard disks and how […]
Thinking Aloud and Thinking Allowed; New Blog Started.
Ron Bailey has started a new blog called “Second Thoughts” which is really a place for him to dump his current thoughts and meditations… As he puts it “Was it Pooh Bear who said ‘sometime I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits…’? I think for me the priority would need to be reversed…’sometimes […]
OK, so I joined LinkedIn
I don’t normally go for these things, but I thought I would give this one a try… I joined LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garysims
FreeNAS promotional video
I’ve made a FreeNAS and Learning FreeNAS (my book) promotional video using Animoto.
My review of PC-BSD 7 published on Linux.com
I have written another article for Linux.com, this time about PC-BSD. Until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. I downloaded and installed it to see how it squares up to user-friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu. I […]
Orthopedic mattresses in the Brasov region of Romania
Some friends of mine here in Romania have launched a business and here is a shameless plug for their site. Saltele Ortopedice – Materflex The site is in Romanian, so don’t go there if you aren’t a Romanian speaker! Saltele is the Romanian word for matteress and this shop is the main website for a […]