Marshall's Weblog

The folks at Altiris have released a personal version of their Software Virtualization Solution for free. Sounds pretty cool if you are testing out an application and don’t want it to muck with your system. There is also a community site for it as well.
We use their Client Manager Solution at work, although the IT/Lan [...]

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I guess SQL can be used to solve all lifes problems. What is next, a Whitespace Sudoku solver?

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No, not the show, Unsolved Codes & Ciphers.

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I just found out that the The Unix Haters Handbook is available free for download. It is a compilation of material from users of Unix systems who were frustrated with the way Unix worked.

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I went and saw V for Vandetta on Saturday. It reminded me a lot of 1984, which is still probably the most engrossing and grimm book I have ever read. Overall, the story was great, the cinematography was amazing, and the acting was adequate.
Sticking with the Alan Moore theme (the original creator of V), [...]

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One of the Quotes of the Day on Googles Personalized Home page comes from Stanislaw J. Lec and it reads as follows
“People find life entirely too time-consuming.”
This really sums up how I have been feeling over the past 2 months or so. I have a bunch of ideas for projects I would like to start, [...]

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I came across the Digital Digest’s download section the other day while researching how to convert movie files to DVD in Linux. If you ever wanted a specific movie Studios intro or one of the cool THX intros before your home DVDs, this is the place to start. Now only if they had the Simpsons [...]

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