A few small compuer-related things have popped up over the last few days and I thought I’d take a second or two to jot down my observations for the benefit of all you fellow Intertron users out there. Apple’s recently-released…
I have to admit, I’ve started to become a bit of an Apple fanboy in the wake of my Powerbook/MacBook Pro conversion, but even if I hadn’t started down the road to Macdom, I still would have lusted after an…
I’m sitting in an NTB waiting for the service techs to finish patching up a seeping flat, typing away on my MacBook Pro, posting courtesy of the mega-sweet Verizon Wireless V640 Express Card. My employer has been buying the PCMCIA…
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux’s `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don’t give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed. First, a little background: like many shops…
That’s right, folks, step right up to Internet ’96 and witness the horror that was the World Wide Web in the year 1996. Even corporate sites stunk to high heaven! Best[sic] Buy’s website looked like something I cranked out my…
If you’ve been having issues with bandwidth thievesneighbords taking advantage of your open wireless access point, instead of just cutting them off, why not have a bit of fun at their expense instead? Say, for instance, redirecting all traffic to…
Our living room air conditioner has been acting fairly fritzy as of late, running at full bore for 5 minutes or so and then summarily shutting off and flashing “E1” on its LCD readout. In vain did I search the…
I’m thinking I may make this a regular feature, as it helps me get the links on the virtual page and off my tab bar. Links The 10 Commandments of Cell Phone Etiquette. Sounds like a good start to me.…
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to “full post” status. Enjoy. Vids Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style. Robin Williams guest-starred…
Either these folks are auditioning for a Blue Man Group spinoff, or there is something seriously wrong with the entire human race. The Scarf for Techno-Addict Dorks, for when you absolutely, positively have to keep your Pokemon-playing ways out of…
