I haven't posted much here in 2016. When the year began I figured I would be because I thought having a Chromebox connected to the TV in the living room would make it so much more convenient and by virtue of the convenience I'd spend more time here on LJ. That obviously is not what happened. In truth what the Chromebox made more convenient is ( Read more... )

I intended to be posting more this year but here is the second of March and this is my first post here since December. There really isn't that much going on of late. At least very little that'd make for interesting reading ( Read more... )

• It was easier to figure out where to market written work back when I actually had contact with people in the local publishing concerns. Granted I was writing for smallish circulation magazines under various pseudonyms and sometimes with no byline at all but atleast I was getting words in print out there in the world. I miss those days.
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The desk chair I bought a few years ago was recalled. Apparently the weld on the base has been known to break causing the base to separate from the seat. The potential for injury is obvious. I've been sitting on the chair just about daily in the years I've had it and haven't had the weld fail yet. Though looking at it, it's plainly visible that it' ( Read more... )

As mentioned in earlier entries I've been having computer issues. The computer I use for everyday stuff is not doing all that well. The bad capacitors on the motherboard have been replaced. That took care of some of the problems but there's still something very wrong. The graphics adapter is behaving strangely, the FPU fails most of the tests I ( Read more... )

The computer I use for just about everything is currently nonfunctional. A capacitor on the motherboard is blown. Until something can be done about replacing the cap the machine is unusable. Unfortunately for me I have no way to access that hard disk which means the project I'd planned to work on this week will be delayed. That was the only ( Read more... )

It's been a couple weeks since my last entry here so I thought I'd post one this evening. Things are mostly okay. Not much new to report. The weather lately has been entirely too hot for me. That's one thing I really hate about living in Georgia, these hot humid seemingly endless summer days ( Read more... )

This is a follow up to my post from last week. The first of two. A comment to that post posed a few questions that I felt called for answers too long to fit into a comment. I thought I'd address the technical side of things first ( Read more... )

There isn't much to say this week. I've been working on a couple projects this week. I've got the NSLU2 back up and going. Reminds me I need to remember to turn it off when it's not being used. The drive cage needs a new fan and it might not be a bad idea to replace the drive itself. For now it seems to be working fine. The fsck turned up some bad ( Read more... )

I find myself sitting here waiting for files to copy and this backup to finish. This morning I discovered that my file server is flaking out. It seems to be the hard drive. It's over 4 years old so a failure isn't entirely surprising.The file server itself is a Linksys NSLU2. It's been sitting quietly on a desk with its hard disk all these years. ( Read more... )