http://www.scottirvin.net a blog by scott irvin Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:01:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love VMware. And Ubuntu has finally made it feasible to have a stable, mostly secure implementation of VMware available for everybody. Sure VMware server runs on Windows. But you don't get months of uptime with windows. Anybody who tells you otherwise is not applying security ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2007/07/25/configuring-ubuntu-704-as-a-vmware-host/ I've often felt that companies like Yahoo and AOL, the companies that have been around for basically as long as the Internet has been popular, should do a username purge. Lots of usernames for these companies, login names that can easily be remembered by people, go unused as the ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2007/06/29/ghosts-of-aim/ Well the Super Bowl came and went, it was a good game.. i was up off the couch screaming at that opening kickoff return.. haha. The commercials were not the most spectacular I've ever seen, but there were some good ones nonetheless. Here's my favorite spot, from ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2007/02/05/super-bowl-2007/ I haven't posted here in a while... I've been watching too much HD! no not really... personal life is keeping me busy, but I HAVE actually made some interesting revelations in regards to HD. A lot of talk over on the AVS forum for my area ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2007/02/02/the-wonders-of-hd-wordpress-linux-life/ One of the most interesting things that HD programming offers is something that I was completely unaware of prior to getting an HDTV. When I thought of things being in "HD", I thought only of new programs created specifically for this medium. I knew the shows on ABC, ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/11/05/hd-musings-part-2/ A couple weeks ago I finally decided to go ahead and get a HDTV for my apartment.  I'd been looking for quite a while, shopping around online and at stores, and decided finally to just get a Best Buy store brand, a 27" Insignia.  The price was decent..  got it ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/10/27/living-life-in-high-def/ I found this photo album of children's letters to God. It is adorable to see a snapshot of such innocence at such a young age. I think it is telling to see what voice children use when speaking to God, and how different the interaction of prayer is ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/10/05/from-the-mind-of-a-child/ It seems to me that Sony has been in the news a heck of a lot lately, and it hasn't been anything positive. The PS3 will be released in a month and a half, and yet the amount of negative press is dwarfing the sense of anticipation and buzz that ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/10/04/sonys-rocky-road/ For as long as I've had a blog I've fought against the dreaded enemy: Comment Spam. Luckily Wordpress has come along and now ships standard with a plugin called Akismet (auto kismet), which claims it will eliminate comment spam. The setup process was easy enough; you just need an API ... http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/10/04/blogs-and-comment-spam/ i'm not really one for these first posts and all, i have no idea what to put at the moment, i just know i don't want the default wordpress crap in here so i've gotta edit it. http://www.scottirvin.net/2006/10/03/hello-world/