Author: rihahn
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WinDos Tehn
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As you can probably tell from ye olden journal here — I’m primarily a Mac user. I also spend an unhealthy amount of time in various flavors of *nix, which…
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Holiday via UPS
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While I hear that celebrating Thanksgiving is frowned upon these days for reasons ranging from ‘catching a case of the zombies via direct eye contact with someone’ to ‘some people…
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1990 – 2020
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Four decades of Apple laptop in one photo, which also covers all of the major hardware versions; 68k, PPC, x86, and M1. What a long strange trip it’s been.
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MacBookAir 10,1
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After what was undoubtedly a harrowing trip from China, my new M1-based MacBook Air arrived today. By now there are countless reviews of the M1 architecture available online, so I’ll…
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Historypeats…
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Can you even imagine Apple computers without Intel CPUs in them? We’re definitely living in the future or something.
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Apple’s Big Sur(prise)
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Yesterday MacOS 11 — aka “Big Sur” — was released upon the world, and that’s where things went wrong for pretty much everyone. I’m not a big proponent of ‘version…
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MacBook 7,1
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Being as I traded in my 2019 16″ MacBook Pro on the new 2020 27″ iMac, meaning it needed to go back to Apple, I’m running on an old 13″…
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iMac 20,2
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The iMac I ordered last week arrived from Ireland today and I spent several hours getting it all set up. The ram install went pretty easy; remove ram cover, pull…
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Xserve 2,1
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A few weeks ago I was successful in re-acquiring my old pre-y2k rihahn.com domain, and decided I should put some sort of service on it. Said service would have to…
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PowerBook 5,3 (The Special Project)
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Back in early 2004 I moved from my home / unicorn sanctuary in Avon Colorado back to Fredericksburg Virginia for a potential teaching gig. This move was fairly spur of…
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PowerBook 165c (Back in the 90’s…)
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This morning’s bit of computer wizardry was bringing an Apple Powerbook 165c back to life. The interesting thing with the 165c is it was the very first laptop with a…
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PowerMac 3,6
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Today’s ‘nothing better to do’ project was reviving an old dual-G4 tower. It’s always interesting to me just how small and snappy old operating systems were. This machine is basically…
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The inevitable computer upgrade
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Last night I ordered a new iMac; what may be the last of the big Intel machines from Apple. 27″ 5K screen, 3.8Ghz Intel Core i7-10700K, 8gigs of 2666MHz DDR4…
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Special Project…
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I’ve got a bit of a special project coming up in the next week or two. Nothing work related, this one is a personal project and it requires these: You…
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Chef Me…
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I don’t really “cook” all that much outside of microwaving stuff, mostly because I have a roommate who kind of leaves the kitchen in a shambles all the time and…
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VBox is a time machine…
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On and off for a week now I’ve been attempting to create a Virtual Box VDI from an old set of Norton Ghost CDs I created back in 2003 —…
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View from the roof
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Had to go up on the roof to check on the fiber switch for the outside cameras, so here’s I-225 looking south on this snowy Monday…
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Winter Wonderland
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It snowed all night and in fact is still snowing right now, which made the drive into work fairly interesting. Not that the Murano has any issue in the snow,…
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Right on schedule
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It’s pretty typical here in Colorado that the first real snow happens right about halloween — this year is no different. I’m a big fan of winter, so to celebrate…
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MacBookPro 16,1 Reload…
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Today was spent reloading OS X 10.15.7 on my 2019 16″ MacBook Pro. Not as big as the 2004 17″ Powerbook G4 I had years ago, but it’s much, much…