My wife’s Powerbook has been acting up a bit - not only has it been showing its age performance-wise, the hard drive starting making distressing sounds. We thought about a new Mac Mini for her, but she decided she liked the notebook form factor better. A new MacBook is not in our budget right [...]
More Computer Surgery
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: General
Back in the Saddle - sort of
March 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A while back I wrote about the “death” of my iBook. I’ve been getting by by sharing my wife’s PowerBook (which made things tough when we were working on a website or something) and pressing into service our older Dell Inspiron 5100 (ok, but issues with battery life and the fact that the “T” [...]
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Some Unix-y Fun
April 10th, 2007 · No Comments
I has been a very busy month for me, and unfortunately I had to cut back on posting. Hopefully that will change this month.
This past couple of weekends I’ve been working on our SOHO server. It’s a 1.8GHz P4 machine (HP) that we weren’t using any more so it was pressed into service to replace [...]
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Home Computing Musings
April 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Slashdot points to an article on Linux snobs at Really Linux, and that got me reminiscing about when I first was learning Linux. I had a couple of years of Unix experience, so wasn’t unfamiliar with the command line tools and such, and didn’t struggle too much (except for getting X running).
Since those early [...]
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