Posted in merchandise, politics, technology on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines is a good read.
What does it boil down to? The CEO had no business skills and spent money on really stupid stuff.
Instead of making an interesting machine people could use, they made a machine as a very expensive foray into interesting hacking projects and the result was an [...]
Posted in E/N, technology, tagged Debian on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Debian Bug #477454 is why Linux probably isn’t ready for the desktop (if you work in HR).
This hasn’t made it to WTF yet and probably won’t. However, it’s still hilarious.
Posted in car, technology, tagged car, gas, technology on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
First, I am going to review this page about fuel saving technology:
Multistage Oil Pump: Talk about craptacular, oil pressure does little or nothing for an engine. Oil viscosity does a lot more for the engine. But, underflowing oil will destroy an engine. A multistage oil pump is only good for pumping failure. Better alternative - [...]
Posted in technology, tagged Linux, Memory on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My desktop PC is dying, the motherboard is pretty much shot and is only reporting 1.3GB (1,323,000kb if you can believe it) of memory. Normally this screams that one of the chips is bad, but a memtest shows that all the chips are bad roughly at the same memory address. The geek talk for this [...]
Posted in technology on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Today’s brilliant problem: We had a request for a list of users in a group who had access to a particular system. We have a LDAP administration program we use. The logical thing to do was to take screenshots of the list of five people since it doesn’t cut and paste anything except LDIF format.
The [...]
Posted in car, technology, tagged CNG, LPG on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The guy who owned the diesel was nuts, and basically tried to fish me along with the old, “Well I’ve got a deposit, but if you meet this price over here…”
I hate that crap. I just hung up on him. If he’s really got a deposit, it’s good as sold. If he doesn’t [...]
Posted in politics, technology, tagged Air Force, Cyberspace on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the war on Anonymous… OK who am I kidding they probably hang out in the partyvan. Anyway, Wired has a piece on the new Air Force cybercommand. They also have a website, which looks like a good way to get paid for learning systems administration skills. On the other hand, it’s not terribly interesting [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, technology, tagged cars, fuel economy, mechanics on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I drive a 1991 Turbocharged Toyota MR2. According to the government, it gets about 18 and 24 MPG. This is all well and good, but the maintenance interval is incredibly short. You will change the oil every 3000 miles and it will take all four and some change quarts. The timing belt itself needs changing [...]
Posted in politics, technology on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
If I was going to point to something and play the “It’s a conspiracy” game, I would point to the undersea cables being taken offline. Anyone else have any thoughts? It’s certainly cheaper than The Great (fire)Wall of China, and also a little less obvious then your local imam smashing your DirectTV dish.
Posted in technology, tagged Linux on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I made the jump to OpenSuSE Linux awhile back when I realize that the only thing I really use the computer for a this point is ripping DVDs, answering IMs, web surfing and e-mail. At one point I had told my brother that “COMPUTER GAMES WERE THE FUTURE”. At the time, PS1 had just come [...]
