Author: rihahn
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Xserve 2,1
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)
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…)
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…
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Notes from the Edge
Just a couple of photos I thought were interesting. The first is something of an alert: I stopped in at the local Carl’s Jr. for breakfast (they make amazing breakfast…
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rihahn.com
My first “personal” website went online in January of 1996, and was hosted by dimensional.com here in Denver. It was really just a tech demo and advertisement for my web…
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The hub of the grub
For being so bleeding-edge technologically, I’m a bit of a Cro-Magnon when it comes to trendy high-tech gig-economy services. And accordingly today was my first use of “GrubHub” which has…
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Movies
It was May in 1980 when the sequel to Star Wars was released; The Empire Strikes Back. I remember standing in line for the theater there in Longmont with my…
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Supplies
Some of those supplies I mentioned a few entries back came in today… The first was the two one-week boxes of rations. As long as I have water, I have…
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The sounds of silence…
I’ve had tinnitus most of my life. It all started with a trip to a HamFest with my parents. A HamFest is essentially an organized garage sale for radio nerds,…
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It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
Given the sliding scale of crazy out there as the year winds to a close, this week I ordered another 60 rounds of 45-70 and two 7-day ration kits that…
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Changing of the seasons…
It’s the end of September, which means the first real snow here in Colorado should be less than 30 days away. While it’s already snowed here for a couple of…