I know it can work, here's the linkI'm thinking of possibly getting my nephew a netbook like I got my kid for his birthday. My kid loves hers, it's a portable video game and movie machine. Right now she mostly has SNES games, some Genesis games, and a few native Linux games ( Read more... )

It's Monday, but for me it's still weekend, Saturday is not however....
( personal ramblings )

My little cousin, the same one I built up a now better than it was computer inside of the gamer case that I mentioned here just had a birthday. Since I got all of these monitors, and I'm to cheap to buy him a present, I figured I would mod one for him ( Read more... )

My sister got one of those lame pop ups claiming her computer was infected, would she like a free scan ( Read more... )

An article about PC-BSD came up on /. and inspired me to mention it. Here's my response about PC-BSD:I just gave a PC-BSD machine to my parents ( Read more... )

I can see my baby again ( Read more... )

I'm disappointed. Used to I had so many leftover standoffs, screws, jumpers, and slot covers they were filling up jars and boxes. I've moved a lot since then and gotten rid of the clutter. Now the new cases I dealt with didn't have everything needed to work out of the box. The first one didn't have enough screws, fortunately I had a few in my ( Read more... )

I am currently converting several power plants from Token Ring to Ethernet. Since the company is kinda cheap, we're deploying D-Link parallel port print servers. Almost all of the printers we're putting these on are HP's, but one particular LaserJet model has some plastic behind the parallel port making it impossible to plug one of these things ( Read more... )

My can't come home weekend has been extended, it started a day early and is lasting an extra day. Earlier my cousin called to ask if I was watching the SuperBowl and began to tell me the Ramones were going to sing. I told him this wasn't really possible considering most of them are dead and the replacements have disbanded. He assured me the ( Read more... )

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