Building a custom PC is fun. In fact, you usually save money and end up with a better computer by building one yourself. Although building a custom PC easier than you might think, it does take a little more time than picking up a PC from one of the big vendors. I will discuss some serious [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Build a Custom PC: Design and Build a Custom PC
Posted in How To on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Install QEMU on Gentoo
Posted in How To, tagged gentoo, install, qemu on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago I decided I needed to install QEMU on my laptop. I assumed it would be a cinch. Wrong was I. You see, my laptop is running Gentoo. I’m a longtime (4 years is longtime, no?) aficionado. (As an aside, I recently did a quick install of Ubuntu on my workstation at [...]
Spam Assassin on Exchange 2003
Posted in How To, tagged email, exchange, spam, windows server on February 20, 2008 | 17 Comments »
At work we use Exchange 2003 as our email server, mostly because it was just so darn convenient to set up. Outlook and Exchange are pretty decent at filtering spam once you’ve installed the latest service packs. However, the amount of completely useless emails making it to my inbox recently spiked (Valentine’s Day may have [...]
Programming Challenge: Time Parser
Posted in Hacker Challenge, tagged challenge, coding, conversion, programming, time on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
OK, this challenge is shamelessly borrowed from a challenge issued by Sasha on the Provo Linux Users Group mailing list, but I remember enjoying it so I figured I’d share. Make a solution in any language. The more, the merrier! Post solutions in the comments. Input: A string containing an arithmetic expression consisting of times. [...]
