It's been at least a year since I've gotten my hair cut (probably longer), so it's time again. And I've been thinking of getting something different. Which means I actually bought a hairstyle magazine recently. O_O I haven't done that since my school days ( Read more... )

(mackillian: DO NOT CLICK LINK unless you want to go into a Wikipedia spiral.)

IPoAC!! HAHAHAHA!!! For the link-phobic, on April 1st, 1990, an RFC was proposed, describing a method to carry Internet Protocol traffic over .... *drum rolls* carrier pigeon.

The best part? It was actually implemented. A ping was sent via carrier pigeon, and four respondes ( Read more... )

So incoming posted an entry titled "HIATUS", and my immediate reaction was "What, the TV show?

Man, I haven't heard any news about Hiatus in a while. Anybody have any info?

So, googled for "linux" and "thinkpad 760xd", and found a site that listed the system specs. It was then that I discovered that this laptop is only a pentium mmx. And so now I've got to wonder if I even want to bother trying to do anything useful with this ancient thing. I'd probably be better off finding a cheap used laptop on eBay and sticking ( Read more... )

I've finally gotten the urge to be connected from home again. You can thank the recent events in Perplex City, which has made me itchy to continue my work on the wiki.

Desktop is still sounding sick, so I thought I would monkey around with installing Linux on the laptop Dad gave me. No go--I get an ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP error message. ( Read more... )

My sister and her family sent me an Amazon.com gift certificate for Christmas. Woo ( Read more... )

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So about a week ago or so, I had Picasa chugging away, converting some RAWs into JPEGs. My computer said, "ARGH!! TOO MUCH STRESS!" and decided to hide from the world by shutting itself off. I let it sit for a day or two before I tried to boot it again.

Well, it wasn't having any of that. Oh, the BIOS would load fine, but then W2K would go " ( Read more... )