Archive for February, 2003

Linux Update

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 26th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Still can’t sync the Palm. The problem seems to be that I don’t have permission to access the serial port. I have chmod 777 the port, and I added my user account to the root group since root owns the port. That should have fixed it but it didn’t. I gue…



Mark Selby – Dirt

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 25th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’m banished to the basement tonight. The homeschooling moms monthly night out is a pot luck here at ODonnellWeb world headquarters. I watched American Idol, that Marine can sing. I have to think his value as a recruiter far exceeds his value as a comb…



First Post!

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 22nd, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From Linux!! I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours fighting network configuration issues in Red Hat 8.0
I started with a brand new computer, Celeron 1.7 GHZ, 256MB RAM. I installed Windows XP first in a 20 GB partition. It went flawlessly. …



The Blog as BBS

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 16th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This article at Slashdot crystallized why blogs have re-energized the Web for me. Before the general public had access to the Internet, I was a BBS nerd. I never ran my own, but I spent a lot of time dialing in to BBS’ in Atlanta. I was a paid member o…



2003 Valentine’s Day Haiku

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 14th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Babysitter sick
Quiet dinner with wife out
Dinner with kids in