While on vacation, I helped repay our host's hospitality by repairing her wireless setup. However, finding the admin login information for her peculiar gateway was a real bear, involving multiple phone calls to various companies. Google knows nothing of this, so I thought I'd post my research here for the sake of future frustrated web-searchers ( Read more... )

Howdy y'all. I've been quiet on LJ, even though I've been melting my keyboard under the fury of my frantic typing into Twitter, so feel free to read my recent stuff there. I've been far too deep into the end-of-year gravity well action playset to organize my thoughts into more than 140 characters at a time. (Or, sometimes, more than 280.) I have no ( Read more... )

The super-cheap Apple refurbs that keimel linked to a while ago seem to be long gone, sadly. So with that temptation gone, I have commenced to beat up on my debt in earnest, laying $2,200 into it just now. Contrary to initial plans, I split this first payment across my credit card and personal debts. The latter involves a significantly larger total, and ( Read more... )

Hm. I have for many years been carrying around conventional (and therefore quote) wisdom (unquote) that RAM is RAM, supported by the fact that I've never had a memory blowout. Unless I have but I've forgotten ( Read more... )

Are any of y'all smart & confident about Mac G5 RAM upgrade paths ( Read more... )

I bought Baldur's Gate yesterday for about $25 at MCenter. The knowledge that BG2 was OS X native lured me into the store, but that game was also twice as expensive. BG runs OK under classic mode. My main complaint is that there's no obvious way, perhaps no way at all, to background the game; to get to anything else on your machine, you must save ( Read more... )

Feeling flush with the arrival of another advance check, I picked up a new Wacom Graphire2 tablet from Micro Center last night. This replaces the monstrously huge Wacom I got last year, the one that neither fits anywhere on my desk or lap, nor works with OS X (for it uses an ancient ADB connector). I had been pleasantly surprised to catch myself ( Read more... )

The Diesel, I see, has embraced the strange weather by removing the wintertime battens from its roll-up front facade. I still feel the need to have some token acknowledging that these temperatures shouldn't be here: I'm wearing my corduroy sportcoat, something I wouldn't do were we having this very same weather in June ( Read more... )