hates the internet

Having successfully replaced Tommy's battery in an earlier bout of geekery, I decided it was time to set about making him do something useful. Since he didn't come with a remote, the first step was figuring out how to make him move.

When I first met Tommy, he was alone. Stuck high upon a forgotten shelf, he watched people come and people go, most bissfully unaware as to how many lols a toy robot from the mid 80s with a few missing pieces still had in him.

This whole thing could be easily solved by spending $25 down t' thu WalMart (or 7.99 at ValuVillage), but shame on you for even suggesting that because that just wouldn't be any fun at all.

That's right, folks, you heard me: As awesome as it is to be able cram two racks of servers into a few U, sometimes virtual environments just don't cut the mustard. And sometimes, they're just not that cool.

What do you get when you combine my father and I, an old Macintosh SE, a few beers and a garage full of tools?  Free admission to the Milton fair!  For one of us, at least.

Well folks, it's been a crappy night and various pieces of crappy technology have driven me quite literally to drink, but on a whole the new Mischa's up and running and that means www.hatestheinternet.com is going to load quicker for the four of you that visit my site regularly ;) For those who want to know what us cool kids run, read on...

Installing PHP from OpenBSD's ports can be a complete and utter pain in the ass sometimes: Most often FLAVOR=no_x11 doesn't trickle down and as useful as BerkelyDB can be, Tcl is a dark, demented beast best left for dead and has no place on my servers.  So, to make life easy, or even just so I have a copy somewhere I can find easily, here's a quick guide to getting the latest and greatest PHP (currently 5.2.6) to compile on OpenBSD (currently 4.4) with all the useful patches and using ports as much as possible.

As we near the two month mark on the townhouse, I decided it was high time that I hook my media PC back up, owing mostly to the fact my Philips DVP-642 is becoming a bigger and bigger pain in the ass to deal with.