…to be a mentor!
It appears that I am one of four (that I know of) alumni invited to mentor UCFV CIS students.
My responsibilities will entail helping students set long-term career goals and short-term learning objectives, among many other things. UCFV wants to provide educational and professional development opportunities for young professionals entering the industry, and [...]

Once I had Ubuntu Server 6.06.1 installed on my new web server, I quickly realized it needed several changes before I could put it online. Hence, this is the first installment in a series of blog entries to help others configure their systems.
If you installed from a CD-ROM and have a working network connection to [...]

My web server was down for most of yesterday, for reasons out of my control.
I shelled in only to see one error message upon restarting the Apache web service: Segmentation fault. I checked the last few lines of Apache’s error_log only to see many more errors related to the same problem. It’s one of most [...]

Last weekend, I decided to test the memory performance of my ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard paired with the Mushkin EM2 1 GB DDR2-667 memory kit.
Specifically, I was eager to determine the maximum memory bandwidth I could attain using DDR2-553 memory timings (4-4-4-12 stock), while acknowledging that the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA performs poorly with the standard DDR2-667 memory [...]