Words to live by
I do what I do, and I don’t plan how I ought to do it. I never have. I don’t believe in being rigid about anything. If I see an opportunity, I will drop all the rules, even when doing so is probably a...
View ArticleBeware the leaky capacitors
In case you haven't heard about it elsewhere, there are some recent motherboards having problems with leaky capacitors.
View ArticleUpgrade diary: Compaq Evo D51S
I upgraded a Compaq Evo D51S today. This was also sold under the name D510, and may have also been sold under the HP or Hewlett Packard brand. It was intended to be a low-profile, relatively affordable...
View ArticleWhat LOAD “*”,8,1 means
The smartest guy in the room cited the Commodore command LOAD “*”,8,1 as something he used for years but never understood why it worked. It will be a long time before I once again I know something...
View ArticleWhy I run Debian, and some Debian tricks
After Dan Bowman pointed out another blogger's recent difficulties installing Evolution on Mandrake 8.1, I had little comment other than, "That wouldn't be an issue if you're running Debian." Well, I...
View ArticleA total blast from the past
I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but textfiles.com tries to collect documents from the classic days of BBSing, which the curator defines as having ended in 1995. I wouldn't have thought it...
View ArticleConfessions of a former Best Buy salesman
The State of Ohio is suing Best Buy. One former employee talked about his experiences working for the company. I last worked for the company in 1995. To its credit, the company did much to persuade me...
View ArticleWhy working fast food and retail was good for me
One of my former high school classmates is concerned. Her seven-year-old's life ambition is to work at McDonald's. I told her not to worry. I didn't work at McDonald's, but I spent 2 1/2 years working...
View ArticleDisable USB mass storage to solve the USB drive-in-the-parking-lot problem
If you’re not concerned yet about the danger of people finding random USB devices in parking lots and plugging them into work PCs, eventually you will be. The answer to the problem is to disable USB...
View ArticleIf there’s an IT skills gap, part of the problem is in HR
IEEE Spectrum posted an interview with Peter Cappelli, author of a useful-sounding book called Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It. He nails the problem,...
View ArticleGigabit card only connecting at 100mbps? Here’s the fix.
I finished a modernization project where I replaced all of my 100-megabit gear with gigabit-capable gear, including my cabling and router and access points. But after I replaced my last 100-megabit...
View ArticleCommodore computer models
The Commodore 64 is by far the most famous and successful computer Commodore ever made. But there were numerous Commodore computer models over the years. Some were also successful. Some were complete...
View ArticleA total blast from the past
I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but textfiles.com tries to collect documents from the classic days of BBSing, which the curator defines as having ended in 1995. I wouldn't have thought it...
View ArticleBeware the leaky capacitors
In case you haven't heard about it elsewhere, there are some recent motherboards having problems with leaky capacitors. The post Beware the leaky capacitors appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
View ArticleConfessions of a former Best Buy salesman
The State of Ohio is suing Best Buy. One former employee talked about his experiences working for the company. I last worked for the company in 1995. To its credit, the company did much to persuade me...
View ArticleUpgrade diary: Compaq Evo D51S
I upgraded a Compaq Evo D51S today. This was also sold under the name D510, and may have also been sold under the HP or Hewlett Packard brand. It was intended to be a low-profile, relatively affordable...
View ArticleWhy working fast food and retail was good for me
One of my former high school classmates is concerned. Her seven-year-old's life ambition is to work at McDonald's. I told her not to worry. I didn't work at McDonald's, but I spent 2 1/2 years working...
View ArticleDisable USB mass storage to solve the USB drive-in-the-parking-lot problem
If you’re not concerned yet about the danger of people finding random USB devices in parking lots and plugging them into work PCs, eventually you will be. The answer to the problem is to disable USB...
View ArticleIf there’s an IT skills gap, part of the problem is in HR
IEEE Spectrum posted an interview with Peter Cappelli, author of a useful-sounding book called Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It. He nails the problem,...
View ArticleLOAD “*”,8,1 – what it means
The smartest guy in the room cited the Commodore command LOAD “*”,8,1 as something he used for years but never understood why it worked except it was the command he used to load games on his Commodore...
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