Archive for May, 2009

Quick Post-Dayton Update

Got back home from the Day­ton Hamven­tion around 8 PM last night. I went there plan­ning on buy­ing an entry-level HT, but I ended up get­ting attracted to shiny things and bought a Yaesu VX-7R rather than my intended tar­get of some­thing in the FT-60R range. Made a few con­tacts on the trip […]


Evolution

Evo­lu­tion
A quick primer to send to any cre­ation­ists you may know.
Edit: Appar­ently the Youtube Word­press auto-post thing neglects to set the title.


Could Pat Robertson get any more out of touch with reality?

Yes­ter­day Pat Robert­son made another one of his trade­mark idi­otic state­ments. In response to Maine pro­vid­ing homo­sex­ual cou­ples the right to marry, Mr. Robert­son went on CBN and opened his mouth to let this shit dribble out:

Here is a tran­script, snagged from Think Progress:
HOST: Mean­while, the New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­ture has also voted in favor of […]


VMware ESXi 3.5u4, Intel SATA, and local datastores

This morn­ing I rebooted my test box run­ning VMware ESXi 3.5 to com­plete the upgrade from Update 3 to Update 4. The hyper­vi­sor came back up, but no guests were run­ning and when I popped open the VI Client it indi­cated that there were no data­s­tores con­fig­ured and it could not find any of […]