Good Reading

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”

Peggy McIntosh

Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women’s statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women’s disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended. Read the rest of this entry »

I have started writing a series of articles explaining how to do source control and the best practices thereof. See below for links to the individual chapters in this series. The Introduction explains my motivations and goals for writing this series. Read the rest of this entry »

PXELINUX is a SYSLINUX derivative, for booting Linux off a network server, using a network ROM conforming to the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification. PXELINUX is not a program that is intended to be flashed or burned into a PROM on the network card; if you want that, check out Etherboot ( http://www.etherboot.org/).  Read the rest of this entry »

Memory tweaking is an important part of the System Administrator’s responsibilities. Having too much memory won’t hurt you, but this is something we cannot expect to have all the time. This page will give you some working tips on memory management for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Read the rest of this entry »

Open the cabinets and you know it’s time!  Pudding mixes perch on top of the cereal, showering down onto the head of a sleepy, squawking teen each morning.  To reach the oatmeal pan, you must shove aside a stack of Teletubbies videos, the bread machine pan and a glass jar of pickles.  The top of the refrigerator is a greasy, dusty jumble of unfinished crafts projects, the dog’s leash, empty prescription bottles, broken toys and fast-food drink cups. Read the rest of this entry »