Adventures As Me

My OS X Desktop system has a problem. When the screensaver activates, there is a small window, one or two seconds in length, wherein if I depress a keyboard key or move the mouse, the screensaver does not fully activate. However, it does not de-activate, leaving me with an unusable desktop.
The system does not respond [...]

After three months, openSUSE is here to stay. On my home desktop that is. It has totally replaced Kubuntu for my preference. The quality documentation is one shining point for me. Yes, I actually read documentation. The tight integration between applications is another. Kubuntu may eventually reach this level, in a about 6 – 10 [...]

A word of thanks to the greatest of computer manufacturers: Gateway
There are many reasons for gratitude toward Gateway. In this paper, I
shall enumerate but a few.
When no one cared, you did
In the 1980’s, after their U.S.A. weekly show was canceled, many Smurfs
were left unemployed. For years little, or no, hope existed for the [...]

Lars Wirzenius has a nice post about naming computers. At my employers, they follow the scheme of complicated code revealing location, make, operating system and installation year of machine. The first three letters specify location. The next letter denotes what kind of machine (’S’ -> server; ‘W’ -> workstation, etc) and three digits shows its [...]

In February we took a plunge and unplugged ourselves from the Internet. For a month now we’ve used alternate means to obtain the necessary information from the Internet: friends’ connections, work, etc. It was fun, but frustrating at times. Last night that came to an end, I signed up for NetZero, the platinum plan. Not [...]