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Trade Made: Laptop Arrives
My effort to trade the eMac for a laptop has paid off. Today I received via FedEx a Dell Inspiron 4100. Yes, it’s old, with a mere 1Ghz CPU, and I’m having to order RAM to make it a half-GB. … Continue reading
Craigslist and Crash
After two weeks of silence from my Craigslist post, I had forgotten it. While people who want Macs tend to be diligent about searching for available machines, I figured it was too old for anyone to care much. On the … Continue reading
Archives: Porn Is Not Harmless
Among the articles discussing the current round of attempts to place over the world a single governing entity I ran across a timely reminder of cultural degradation. This shows up as a tactic in various plans, including the communists, the … Continue reading
Top Two Windows Text Editors
Over the years, whenever I ran some version of Windows, I was always hunting down new and better text editors. I’ve purchased a couple of the premium versions, but in the long run, it’s hard to beat these two: Cream … Continue reading
XP: Give Me Control
One of the virtues of Linux is total user control, at least in most situations. If you want to delete a critical file, by all means delete it. Linux will allow it. Just remember it probably won’t restart if you … Continue reading
Stuff I Miss on XP
While playing with XP on my system, I’ve picked up the usual Open Source stuff most people know about: Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, etc. I’ve tried to find a few other things, but it seems some are just not available. … Continue reading
Trading on Craigslist
I finally decided I have no use for my eMac. It just sits there. I don’t do Mac. It’s okay, but it doesn’t work the way I do, so I’m going to find it a new home. Over the years, … Continue reading
Municipal Computer Virus: No Surprise
Lots of places to find the details, but this one will do: Computer Virus Hits Houston Municipal Courts. Are we surprised? Not if we know anything at all about computers. And governments. Consider how bureaucracies attract, and hold, the least … Continue reading
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Best Audio CD Player on Lenny: Amarok
I love playing good classical music when I’m trying to think. Notice I don’t claim to actually succeed at thinking, but I do succeed at listening to music. It works best if you can find something capable of doing it … Continue reading
CompSec: Another Doomsday Virus
I’m not a mindless fanboy. There are things about Linux which fail. Just now, as I was doing some research on this post, I ran into a website which caused a race condition on my Lenny box. I had to … Continue reading