Author: rihahn
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So long, Server
After many long years, Apple has discontinued MacOS Server. I’ve been using Apple’s server product since OSX came out, I guess it would be 2001 or so, so I have…
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Tweet
I guess the biggest news in the universe at the moment is that the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – just purchased the world’s most problematic domain – Twitter.com.…
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Every Day I’m Shuffling
Here’s another odd bit of Apple history that you can still plug into a Mac and expect it it to still work… The original iPod Shuffle. This is my 1Gig…
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Sign of the Times
The is the first time I’ve seen a bare shelf at my local Walmart… I guess I won’t be making eggs for breakfast this week. Listening to “Even Less” by…
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Dusty
The weather here in Denver was a bit windy yesterday, which stirred up a bit of a sand storm that eventually ended up in my house… Today is all about…
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Shady
So I got an email from a sales-drone at Amazon today stating that they had noticed my EC2 usage had increased – so they wanted to discus my usage and…
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Empathy
Today, when I had to go and clean out the bin on my upstairs Neato vacuum, I noticed some interesting empathy. See, my upstairs Neato is a “Botvac Connected”, and…
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iPhone, part 2
For the pure entertainment value of it, I present my original 2008 iPhone… Technically this is an iPhone 2G as it’s the 2008 16G version of the 2007 iPhone 1.…
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In stereo where available
My 32 year old, fifty pound, wondrously analog Denon AVC-3000 receiver finally succumbed to entropy today… I knew the end would come soon. See, the left channel had been weak…
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Mindful
With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose. Before I could set up the watch with the new…
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iPhone
The new iPhone arrived this evening and I have it all set up… It’s pretty nice, and usable one-handed, which is a bonus. Oddly, I have to get another sim…
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Cellphone
Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and…
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eBay, part the third
Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…
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Where the Internet Began
I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies……
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Online
Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended…
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G4
Purely for the entertainment value, today I’m installing weird operating systems on my 17-inch 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. I briefly had MorphOS, the AmigaOS-alike offering, installed. I installed MorphOS via the…
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RTFM
Last evening I got a note from ebay stating that the buyer of the motherboard I recently sold wants a refund because it doesn’t work… The note the buyer included…
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Lift
Some excitement this morning; the elevator at my office failed – while I was in it. I got in, pressed three, the doors closed and the elevator got to about…
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Processing
Yesterday I decided to put the new laptop through its paces with some complicated video work – just to see how well it performed. I have a couple of collector’s…
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Drive
Having nothing better to do, and being tired of staring at the walls, today I decided to move some funds around and go for a drive… The route was simple;…