I am happy because I successfully repaired my T23 Thinkpad.(yet again) It was the screen ribbon cable this time. I switch out a bunch of parts, some of them back, with my parts T20 that I got from Steen who I don't know personally but to who I give my thanks ( Read more... )

I have acquired a kind-of-broken Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop that is a fair bit faster than my Thinkpad T23. It is no replacement to my T23 for sure. It has some problems. It is the bad end of taking two laptops with broken cases and making a good one. The front plastic frame for the LCD is completely absent and so are the mouse buttons. The battery ( Read more... )

I labeled my computer's monitor at work.
"This isn't the GUI you are looking for."
"Unix mind tricks"
It is running FreeBSD without a graphical interface so I jump around with screen a lot.

Ashley broke up with me on good terms on Monday evening. She says she needs to be alone for a change after a long streak of relationships. She says that we will still be "friends with benefits" which is as frusterating as hell to me because what is the goddamn difference? It is a pity that too may young people have acquired their understanding of ( Read more... )

I started the 10mg dose of prozac today. I may increase the dosage as necessary, but I am not yet sure that it does anything ( Read more... )

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Her nipples are wide.

The local radio station KMXQ went off the air a few months ago. I do not know the real reason but if you asked me I would say it was because they played non-stop cubicle country fusion garbage and everyone stopped giving a shit ten years ago and their inertia finally ran out. This left a rift however as it is often the local radio station's roll to ( Read more... )

I used to post about the interesting ways that Windows ME fucked up. Well, Win2000 fucks up too ( Read more... )

Dead ethernet port on a 1 port device. Try a different device. Same result. Repeat x4 ( Read more... )

I finally restarted my Windows 2000 home computer, after 158 days and 4 hours. It seemed to be doing fine, but I was trying to get it to recognize a USB flash drive, and it was time to unstall some security updates anyway. The flash drive had been ran over by at least one vehicle on California Street, where I found it. The SMT flash chip was pried ( Read more... )