So it's odd having this enforced vacation. At this point I go into the office only when I need to download alot or want fresh fruit. I'm spending most of my time tweaking my CV and applying for loads of jobs. The rest is catching up on new technologies, and the new job advert terminology. When did Methodology become Solutions Architecture? And when ( Read more... )

The shipment showed up today. Somehow we ended up with 63 boxes. That took a while to get in there.
Answers to my ponderings from yesterday:

• What are in those boxes? - I still don't know for the most part. I do know that a lot of the labels were wrong since many items were taken out of storage years ago. So no shower curtain - which I don’t mind ( Read more... )

I think I'm fairly up to date on my homebuying stories. Which brings me to today, where I find I need more work done on the place. I'm hoping someone with a homewise brain might know the answer to these.

• It appears we've got a leak in the wall from what looks like seepage through the brick in the outer wall. How does one go about sealing brick? ( Read more... )

The motherboard on my linux box has gone under. It was an old used Pentium 3, and gave a me agood couple years of use. Does anyone have some aged unwanted old motherboard/PC they're no longer using that I can replace it with? I don't need something with any actual power, just enough to run a server or two and not heat up the flat with the CPU.

What are those tiny wormy-shaped things with spots at one end served with Japanese meals? If I had to guess, I'd say it was Nyoro Nyoro (aka Hattivatit).

It's a bad picture, I know, but the stuff on the left here:

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I think The bloody Dell box is not designed for airflow. Bought a fan, and ended up removing all the extra expansion slot inserts and putting an inflow fan in place of that lot. It runs about 3 deg cooler (42 instead of 45). There was no way to get a fan in the front. I may need to do some remodeling a la this. Any suggestions ( Read more... )

So, my computer runs rather hot. Too hot to add anything else to it, or else I'll risk drive failure. I'd like to add more fans, but I've not the vaugest clue where to put extra fannage to make it run less hot. Help?

I suppose the biggest question is where's the temperature-controlly circuit thingy to turn the thing high/norm/max/off or whatever?

I did not grow up in this country. I have an excuse not to know. Anyways, I was reading the life in the UK book, when I discovered that the Levelers was another group from around the English Civil War. So, now I have a question... How many alterna-hipply-punky bands from the mid 80s-90s era did this? Was this an intentional trend? Coincidence? What ( Read more... )

Anyone know a good brand of DVD writer? One I can install in a PC. I've no real idea who makes quality stuff and I'm loathe to buy based on "this costs more, it must be better."
Also useful are names of shite manufacturers.