When I worked for AOL, I used to visit the area where they had a tech support chat room. It ran off a Power PC (Mac), and it had the voice synthesizer options on in the chat room so that when someone asked a question, the person babysitting it would know someone was in there. Usually they would then assign them a different voice, and the Mac ( Read more... )

So, stodgycat asked me what was on that old backup CD I found in a CD Drive that has been sitting in a box. Well, here's the contents.

• KDE version 3.2 Beta 2. I now use GNOME a lot more because it's the default GUI on Redhat/Ubuntu. KDE also lost with Kwin vs Gnome+Compiz. KDE 4.x also needs to mature.
  
• Install files for:
  
  
  
  • Net Vampire. We used to use ( Read more... )

Most of my friends on here are either in or closely related to the tech industry during this crisis. This was forwarded around at the office by a manager I really trust, and links like these are part of that ( Read more... )

In 1988, in the hallways and stairwells of whatever hotel EveCon 5 was at, someone had some posters that were aimed at FanTek security. Our new policy of making picture badges really made some people angry, and the whole "FanTek cons are run by security Nazis" rumors started. In reality, security was a response to several incidents that happened ( Read more... )

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There is a pile of trash by my stairs about 4 feet tall. It's about 11 bags, I figure. It represents about a day's worth of cleaning of my son's old room, my old den, and the bedroom. To be fair, some of it is a bunch of crushed and damaged empty boxes ( Read more... )

I spent ALL of Sunday with CR. It was about time. Soon I won't be able to spend any time with him. He'll be working or at school, or in college, grown up, and then married with kids where I'll live in his basement as "crazy old grandpa ( Read more... )

We took today off. I didn't end up going to West Virginia like I had planned, CR went with Christine instead in the blue Saturn, because we're still worried about the green Saturn's tires, and he didn't mind packing into the back seat. We got ahold of Fran again, and we're going to send him a care package so he won't have to worry about money for ( Read more... )