http://fracturednoesis.com Fractured = broken, ruptured; Noesis = cognition, knowledge Fri, 28 May 2010 03:20:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SLEEP STUDY AFTERMATH So the Doctor sends you to the medical supply store to get all machinery for your CPAP or biPAP machine and you get home and you have a bunch of tubes and a mask that looks like something Chuck Yeager would need at Mach two rather than you ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=139 This is going to be a big departure from what I normally write about, but I meet enough people that never seem to learn to sleep with their CPAP (Constant Positive Airway Pressure) machine that I want to share how I cope with it.  None of what follows should be ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=135 I've been looking at e-book readers a lot lately and I like what I see.  We are still a ways away from a tipping point where people switch heavily to e-book readers.  It is probably safe to say we are in the second generation of readers, and it will probably ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=136 Watch out EMC, CoRAID is getting ready to grow.  CoRAID just got an infusion of Capital and a crack management team.  Whithin 5 years they will be a common data center name or owned by a company that is already a big data center name. http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/01/25/startup-with-all-star-backers-aims-to-disrupt-storage-market/ http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=132 Unless you have been living under a rock, or perhaps in the electrical power-less tundra of the Midwest, you probably knew Apple was making an announcement on 1/27/2010.  I have been predicting and prognosticating about what Apple might be up to on other entries here tomorrow we may find some ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=131 Recent glitches required me to update a server I had running Php and MySQL.  Before upgrading mySQL I dumped all of my databases using the dump command.  When I went to recreate a couple databases in the new installation using PhpMyAdmin a few databases were a little too large and ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=130 Many people are suspicious of the reported trick of freezing a hard drive in a last ditch effort to recover it.  Freezing a hard drive to recover data really can work.  I don't know why it works, but I have used it successfully on a disk that would not boot and I ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=129 You may wonder why this card does not work once you have it installed and the drivers are loading.  Check your logs, you are probably missing the firmware that the drivers need to operate. Here is a good site to reference for getting these devices working in Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=127 I was using DHCP, TFTP and PXE to install debian on a Soekris 4801.  The tftp daemon I was using was ATFTPD.  It wouldn't allow the Soekris to PXE boot until I changed a startup parameter in /etc/default/ataftpd.  I added '--no-blksize ' to the list of startup parameters based on ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=126  It may be we are starting to see the real reason that Google and Apple are parting ways in the board room. The following is speculation. Apple is rumored to have a tablet-type device coming to market.  The parts have been purchased, the agreements are in effect, but there has not been ... http://fracturednoesis.com/?p=125