My PowerBook came back from Apple on Friday (I had put it in the mail on Monday, so not bad), and I’ve been trying to make it mine again since opening the box on Saturday.
The machine came back fixed. One of the problems it had (has), was that the battery would go from full [...]
I’ve been a Unix guy ever since my first job out of college tending to a handful of Microsoft—yes, Microsoft—Xenix-based Altos computer systems. In my time I’ve played or worked on them all: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and so on. Of course, my work-a-day machine was Windows-based, and I ran Linux at home [...]
If you’re not a geek, the title of this post refers to “small office/home office network attached storage.” It’s something I’ve been researching for about a year now, looking for just the right product. I think I may finally have found it, which is good, as I was this close to building one [...]
I installed Tiger last weekend. I won’t bore everyone (well, okay, no one) with my review of the new Apple OS, but I have to get a few things out.
I’m underwhelmed. If I were new to OS/X, I would be as overwhelmed as I was 18 months ago. But, frankly, [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been distracted by work and by a simple social-networking experiment.
I’ve owned the laceys.org domain since 1998, but I haven’t done much with it. This weekend I pointed the domain at my web host, Rimu Hosting, updated the VirtualHosts table in Apache, and installed a Wiki. [...]
Back in August the family moved into a new house, and that meant getting Comcast to run some new cable and Verizon to add two new phone lines. Long story short; Comcast did exactly what they were suppose to do - no muss, no fuss. Verizon, however, drop the ball completely. Shortly [...]