March 20th, 2007 | 
Last night, my little, obscure blog started getting attacked with spam. 24 hours later, it’s slowed a bit, but I’m still getting about 20 spam comments posted per hour. Keep in mind that there are only about 200 posts on the blog to source that number of comments. I now know where to buy all [...]
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If you hadn’t already heard, CompUSA is closing 100 stores nationwide (see locations below). The list is here. Rumors had it that our local store had guys in the street with signs advertising a big sale so my son and I trekked down to the store to confirm that we are about to lose the only [...] About a month ago, I posted about the dizzying array (for me) of stupid technical projects I had going on at the same time. One of the projects was installing a new RAID controller as part of my server rehab. I wanted to move from a 1TB array resulting in about 780GB of disk [...] Yesterday’s Guardian Unlimited had a very funny article by Charlie Brooker titled, “I Hate Macs.” In the article, Mr. Brooker pokes fun at the latest ad campaign by Apple in which two actors portray the human incarnations of a PC and Mac. From the article: “I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I [...] I haven’t been posting much lately. Once in a while, I find that I get interested in fooling with all the technology around me and, having done so, have to scramble to fix everything I’ve broken. Of course, the more I scramble, the more stuff breaks, creating a technology focus gravitational field that nothing escapes [...] Thanks to Worth1000. This is just one of many edited advertisements on Worth1000′s web site. Check ‘em out. A total hoot. Well, my new 1.67GHz Core Duo Mac Mini arrived at my home yesterday. After making sure it booted right out of the box (it did), today was time to take it apart, take a look at its innards and upgrade the puny amount of memory that comes stock with the machine. If you’re [...] First off, let me say that I’m not a gamer. I don’t run an SLI or Crossfire setup (where multiple high-performance graphics cards work closely with the motherboard to create a better and faster image). I do build systems, however, that are the next step down from gamers’ rigs using high performance processors, matched [...] |
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