I've been surprised at how long my PC has lasted with little-to-no maintenance.  I don't really use it for anything besides playing games anymore, and I soon intend to replace that function with an Xbox 360.   For the past 6 months or so it's been hobbling a bit, with one of the disk drives occasionally making odd noises on boot and not being ( Read more... )

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Last night I attended the premiere of this year's Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 2006. It was an expensive ticket, but it was a great time. My favorite shorts were "Doll Face", "Carlitopolis", "A Great Big Robot From Outer Space Ate My Homework", "Growth by Aggregation 2 (the Utah variation)", "Noggin", "One Man Band", and the Best of Show "One ( Read more... )

I've been killing myself trying to finish this design document at work and I finally was able to send it out for review on Friday afternoon. Hopefully people won't have too many comments about it, because I'd really like to write some code sometime this year.

Got my Powerbook back on Friday, it was shipped out, fixed, and back in the apple store ( Read more... )

My dad read my earlier journal entry on the computers I've used and provided more info on his Superboard II:

By the way, our first computer was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II, as far as I know there was never a "III". It had 24K of ROM and 4k of static RAM, later expanded to a whopping 7k. Data storage was on cassette tapes. It had a 6510 8 bit ( Read more... )

Sometime soon after I got back from CSH Welcome Back I noticed that there was a minor scratch on the screen of my beloved Powerbook, dead center no less. At first I just thought it was a hair or something, so I busted out the Windex and gave it a good bath to no avail. I started looking online and some people recommended the Janvil Plastic ( Read more... )

Someone today asked me about some of my early computer experiences, and so I ended up making this list of all my computers.

1. Ohio Scientific Superboard II (or III?) - This was actually Dad's computer, and while I vaguely remember using it on a cardboard card table in the basement of our house, I really don't remember much. I seem to remember dad ( Read more... )

Last night I started to acknowledge that I was going stir crazy from staying at home doing nothing, so I made a pact with myself to get the hell out of the house. :)

Chuck and I decided to go out and play pool, which was alot of fun. We played 9 ball for about 3 hours, and we were pretty even (although I was ahead by 2 games). Afterwards, we met ( Read more... )

I am thinking of replacing my motherboard. The USB on it is damn near completely non-functional, and the addon USB card I purchased to try and make up for the fact that my motherboard's USB support eats it isn't much better. I can't even get my Logitech Mouseman Optical to work on the onboard ports, and when I have it connected to the add-on ( Read more... )