Category Archives: Hardware

Episode #159: Where a fallen slacker returns and a dire warning

I’ll admit it, I’m terribly disappointed in myself. I’m sick with regret actually. Truth be told I haven’t done something this stupid since, well, let’s just say that writing about it in a public forum has been strongly discouraged by … Continue reading

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Of hard drives, burning bushes, and lasers

The other day I got home from work and my wife mentioned something about our iBook running slow all day. I asked her if she had rebooted lately thinking that maybe that universal cure would speed it up. Yeah, well, … Continue reading

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The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man and server room computing

I remember walking out of the theater after seeing Ghostbusters for the first time and thinking ( age 8 ): 1. OhmygodthatwasawesomewhenIcangoseeitagain? 2. I’ll trade anything, including by little brother, for just five minutes with a real proton pack. A … Continue reading

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When disk drives eat cake

From my last post there was a comment at the bottom from Corwin that went like this: “You really need to upgrade to two monitors – it’s saved my keyboards’ ALT and TAB keys.” I’d never actually considered that before, … Continue reading

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