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I received three gently-used CPU/MOBO combos from a like-minded friend which I decided to use to stave off a new home-computer purchase for myself, and with them began a household upgrade path which turned out to be far more intensive than I was anticipating ( Read more... )

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Recent updates to both my XP box and my OSX box have crippled my functionality identically, though it affects me much, much more on Windows. When I reboot either of these operating systems, my computer now cannot traverse the KVM and get a read on my widescreen monitor, so it defaults to a lower resolution and a 4:3 setting, which given my 16:10 ( Read more... )

Steve Jobs gave his very last Key Note today in California, and the everpresent mindless throng of Apple enthusiasts were not disappointed, for today, the face of computing will forever be changed with the introduction of the MacBook Wheel, Apple's boldest move since the Macintosh:


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I'm no scholar

• I was supposed to have recited the poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" to my class, but since I hadn't *actually* memorized it, I instead orated a very colorful retelling. The instructor was so enamored, I received an A.
  


• I always had a book with me in school. When not working on a project, I was reading a novel. All my book reports ( Read more... )

Leopard has changed many things. They're moving away from BSD and embracing a more POSIX outlook. Imagine my surprise when ps -aux returned an error and ps -aef worked instead. Remember all the frustration I had with trying to export an OSX filesystem to my Solaris box several years ago? Considering OSX has dumped that horrific NetInfo GUI for ( Read more... )

They had an iPhone on display at the AT&T store. I bemusingly picked it up...and wanted one. Well, almost. When I carted around the Vaio life was good - it was almost perfect excepting three very key points of contention:

• The miniature keyboard was maddeningly microscopic
• It was $2000
• It ran the Windows operating system

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OSX 10.5 "Leopard" now up and running on my mac mini. User 'catttitude' is now primary user on her mac mini. Xubuntu now upgraded to 8.04. DVD-RW installed to replace my failing CD/RW drive in my XP/linux dual-boot box. Failing CD/RW relegated to an external enclosure. Monitor 'riser' installed on my desk (now that I don't have a 150-lb 22" ( Read more... )

Brought up Toast on teh max0r and selected files from my nfs mounted Solaris volume to make a hard-copy DVD backup of my server, and to consider the possibility of using iTunes new built-in backup application. Toast couldn't read a good majority of my nfs mounted files, yet on the server side I ensured everything was world readable. I may try to ( Read more... )