Quick and Easy Lightbulb changing is here, at least as a design concept. and the best part about it is that with no twisting motion the extra stress put on the glass, leading for the need to keep extra potatoes around is no longer there. Spuds of the world rejoice!

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Live and Longer Taping of the CaffiNation episode 408 had everything from legos to super bacteria its a hoot and a half just trying to figure it all out. Great live show with plenty of input from everyone who stopped by thanks so much for making this a special episode!

LAMP is the Way to Go

I recently had a server die on me at my day job and I needed to choose a new os for it. After consulting twitter. I was suggested by Knightwise that I should go with a LAMP install of Ubuntu. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Php. All of the elements I needed in one spiffy package. I had never done one of these before so I decided to give it a shot. Let me tell you this install when blindingly quick. It took longer to download and burn than it did to have a working web server again. With less than an hour of total downtime, including swapping video cards, and burning an ISO. Both of those were done at the same time. Thanks So much to Sir Knightwise for that suggestion. I have run linux servers for a while but i never tried the Lamp install. Quick and painless let me tell you.

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