Monthly Archives: February 2005

Why is it when something new and interesting develops, it is the scientists and academics who try so hard to debunk and denounce it? The president-elect of the American Library Association apparently doesn’t like bloggers, maybe because some them called … Continue reading →

I believe that open-source will ultimately save the computer industry from itself. But there is much work to do. Although most serious open source developers understand that to win the software market they need to convince the layman to use … Continue reading →

From the absolutely-stupid-junk-mail-dept. Of all the images that they could have picked for this ill-advised campaign, they pick an image of a textbook. Heaven forbid that your children ever want to study anatomy and become doctors, huh? Do you know … Continue reading →

God, I have this fantastic craving for a beer! Easily solved, as there is beer in my fridge. Having a beer after a hard day of hacking on comps is the best thing ever. I sincerely hope they don’t make … Continue reading →

Don’t you just hate it when you are having a frank conversation with an old friend and he’s secretly taping you and then the tapes leak when you become a big shot? Notice how Douglas Wead (now there’s a name) … Continue reading →

looks like something is a little bit bollocksed at cobolhacker.com After I put in an upgrade to WordPress things got a little crazy. For some reason if you visited http://www.cobolhacker.com the site would render all funny. But visiting the http://www.frankie.ca/blog … Continue reading →

Here are ten simple steps I use to help make Windows XP machines not suck quite as hard. One. Turn off System Restore. The thing doesn’t work half the time and it slows down your machine. Very rarely does System … Continue reading →

We often use retail processors in systems because they come with excellent heatsinks. Intel always uses plastic inside their retail boxes to hold the CPU and heatsink. Bad Intel! As much as fifty percent of my garbage volume is taken … Continue reading →

The NHL season is toast. I’m not really a big hockey fan, but I see this as an extreme failure attributable to greed, an increasing problem throughout much of the World. Good job guys! Show the fans how much you … Continue reading →

You get chilly at night, blogging away, sitting in the basement with all the cold air. If my old furnace was really around for my comfort, I would have it set to some warmer temperature than twenty degrees Celsius. But … Continue reading →