Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died from pancreatic cancer. I was watching Jeopardy tonight and the show was interrupted for the notice along with a capsule history of Steve and his days with Apple. He was only 56.


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Mother Nature's "heavy flow days" continue to be a thorn in our side. While we remain high and somewhat dry, the garden languishes in a sea of weeds and tomatoes rotting on the vines. We will mount an attack to dig around and harvest the surviving veggies, then once it (eventually) dries up, till the spent stuff under and possibly throw a little ( Read more... )

This morning I wanted on teh intarwebz, but my computer awoke to a black screen. There was audio when mashing keys, but I figure, being a PC and not the perfection that is Apple, it just needed a reboot after being on for weeks. A reboot did nothing, but I noticed a curious behavior with the display. Usually the power light blinks when in between ( Read more... )

This shit is getting out of hand. First is was just smeared and wavy-gravy text. Then the silly made-up words that trip up my brain's internal autocorrect. Now the obscuration of the text has been getting so out of hand to the point where I have to refresh the captcha half dozen times or more to get something readable enough to enter, much less ( Read more... )

It appears my preparedness for the snow has apparently scared it off. Just a light dusting out there ( Read more... )

Taking a step away from my usual building of computer systems, I decided on buying an HP Mediasmart Server EX495. This is probably the high end of a class of tidy little machines running Windows Home Server. It cost less than 600 bux. About the size of a toaster, it can hold up to 4 drives and sit quietly in the LAN, performing regular backups of ( Read more... )

As far as geekery is concerned, this wedding cake is pretty 1337.


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Since my last video got pah-owned for not giving 20 million dollars to 20th Century in order to run on YouTube, I will post something else instead.

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It does appear that running Flash is a big drain on system resources. ;-)

Many of you might believe that Apple is an elegant, well-run company behind their flashy gadgets. I think it might be more like what's pictured below, given their latest PR foofaraw.


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A couple of wonderful people on my f-list noticed that I had deleted my LJ for about a day on Thursday. While I was mostly keeping myself from posting due to various issues, the reason for deleting my LJ was because one of my PCs got nailed with a nasty rootkit/trojan/virus trifecta through my own stupidity. Rather than risk compromise of various ( Read more... )