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20 Nov 2009
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I am saddened that the Microsoft product Windows has returned to my life. I was raised on Apple ][ machines, and later Macintosh (512, Plus, SE, etc). Eventually I began using cheap x86 boxes with Xenix on them, and begged and borrowed UNIX shell accounts from my friends that were attending UCSC. Windows was unavoidable though. I was forced to use Windows 95 or Windows NT on company issued laptops beginning around 1996. I hated everything about it. I hated the Plug & Pray support. I hated the Registry. I hated the interface. I hated it all.

17 Jul 2009

I'm in the process of upgrading a server from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. "This should be no problem" I thought because, in my heart, I'm an optimist. No, really! I totally am. So just imagine my surprise when after what appeared to be a really smooth update I tried to start my (already installed) Sun Java System Web Server. Was I greeted with "Server ready for requests"? Nope. Instead I was greeted with the wildly unhelpful errors: