Has anybody else had a sudden onset of gmail marking a bunch of good mail as spam? Twice, recently, I've detected something missing that I expected to find. On looking into the spam can, I've found a scary pile of good messages there. This is highly disturbing, to say the least. I don't think I've twiddled anything that would cause this. ( Read more... )

Last night echoweaver and I sat down for some system twiddling. (The family that geeks together, uh... Well, I'm sure there's an end to that metaphor that is neither disturbing nor embarrassing. I'm just not coming up with it right now.)

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Design exercise (semi-serious; planning HW upgrades for 6 month-1 year time frame -- probably phased).

echoweaver and I are considering upgrading our increasingly vintage video set up, aiming for a consolidated home theater-ish rig with a networked media server and game setup. Here are the design goals:

• Modern, flat-screen TV. Size appropriate for an ( Read more... )

A big shout out to all my OS X homies out there...

So WTF is with the Airport WiFi network detection routines?  It seemed like for a couple of months when we moved in here, mine would auto-detect the household network and auto-join it.  It sometimes took a while for it to scan and pick up all the local SSIDs, but once it had, it would happily just ( Read more... )

My god. I'm back to doing digital logic circuit design. I feel like a college sophomore again. I thought that I had left hardware behind, oh, about eighteen years ago. [sigh] :-P