Monthly Archives: July 2009

Today we are gathered to honour a truly outstanding computer, Plato. The decision was made that Tzu would do nothing else except be a file server so a new workstation was needed.  Plato was first activated in 1998, the fourth … Continue reading →

And the easy way is Liveusb-creator.  Forget doing it with the shell.  You tell the thing to “take this live ISO and put it on this here flash drive.”  It even kindly leaves any original files on the flash drive … Continue reading →

i stepped on to a scale today for the first time in around five years. no idea how accurate it is but that bastard said i was 160 pounds. i haven’t been that light in ten years.  probably explains why … Continue reading →

Years from now, when you’ve moved on to Windows 7, you’ll look back at Windows Vista fondly. This from an executive at Microsoft.  Like the author of the post, my first thought was, “Oh, so Windows 7 is going to … Continue reading →

Being Friday, I decided to treat myself to some Chinese food since I haven’t done that in a while.  Walk down the street to Gene’s, where the phrase ‘Dinner For One’ is really a codeword for ‘Dinner For One Plus … Continue reading →

I remember long ago having to drive a buddy to the hospital because he had hit his head on the edge of a table and was bleeding like a stuck pig.  The hospital waiting area was like a Terry Gilliam … Continue reading →

I know a couple who were with each other for a while, but now live on opposite sides of the planet.  They’re together to this day, just not physically.  Kind of like humanity’s relationship with the moon.  You can talk … Continue reading →

I found an interesting website which lists all the various things that have been spun off of the American space program.  It’s not just freeze-dried ice cream — a lot of things from microcomputers to the Dustbuster have been developed … Continue reading →

Bios does not find proper hardware configuration — please check your system. Such was a strange message one of my file servers gave me after I had cleaned it.  The message is actually being generated by a Promise SATA300 TX4 … Continue reading →

This hack is very cool: sampling tiny electrical fluctuations in the ground wires to determine what keys on a keyboard are being struck. I had always wondered if you could glean information like that from the grounds, but had always … Continue reading →