Author: rihahn
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The Computer Wants You To Be Happy
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I get asked fairly often by various friends when the subject inevitably turns to computers, “Why Linux?” So, to put my thoughts on the subject into a concise format, I’ll…
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Food
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My CFO and the sales guys from our spinoff company have all been eating this stuff called “Factor” at work for a couple years now, and it looks and smells…
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Happy Birthday to me
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I’m coming up on the 55 in a couple of days. Wednesday in fact… I still find it hilarious that I’m a ‘senior citizen’ now. Normally my birthday is celebrated…
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Linux all the things
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Since my last post I’ve had to load Linux Mint on my MacPro 5,1 at work – a MacOS “security update” a couple of weeks ago did in the OCLP…
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Unix
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Well, I gave up on Windows 11 after an entirely too long 90 days… I installed it as my home desktop OS on October 6th, fought with it on and…
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Stormwatch
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Lines join in faint discord and the stormwatch brews a concert of kings as the white sea snaps at the heels of a soft prayer whispered. Listening to “Dun Ringill”…
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2024
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One more trip around the local star complete – on to the next. Listening to “Wheel in the Sky” by Journey
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2023 – a year in review
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It’s that time again; the semi-annual review of the year to somewhat consolidate things into a single post. 2023 was, in most ways, a repeat of 2022; the economy is…
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Drive 5000 miles…
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In keeping with tradition, my car just passed 5000 miles and here’s the update. Interestingly, I purchased the 300 on the 10th of August, 2022 – which is about 500…
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Amiga
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It’s hard for anyone who wasn’t there to understand just how amazing the Amiga was when it arrived in the mid 80’s… See, prior to the Amiga pretty much everything…
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Not even light can escape…
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Back on the 4th I mentioned the Minimig I ordered on the 27th that, in theory, was to arrive on the 6th. Oh, how wrong I was… See, in this…
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E3
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As of today, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is no more… The end of an era. Here’s a couple of my E3 badges: one from 2009 and the other from…
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Audio
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As I mentioned a few months ago; I’m kinda into music and accordingly I always have some nice stuff for the reproduction of it. Now I’m not some mental-case audiophile…
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Hospital-ity
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My roommate is on day three at the hospital; surgery went fine and they got what they were after without complication, so now it’s just recovery from having his insides…
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Robots
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About once a week for years now I’ve stopped at the Carl’s Jr. near the office and gotten breakfast. And in that time the morning crew and I have gotten…
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New project
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Leading up to September 1989 I’d had quite a few different home computers – Sinclair ZX-81, Commodore VIC-20, and an Atari 800XL – but it was in the afternoon of…
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Wire-less
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My CFO / real-estate mogul has been renovating a new house for his family for about a year and a half now – and now that he’s moved in, he…
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Eco-Warriors
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My alt.save.the.planet neighbors with the gargantuan SUV, the bad air-conditioning habit, and the alter to Greta Thunberg have struck again… Apparently said neighbor saw a field mouse on their deck…
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Update – the OS kind
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We’ve had centralized OS updates in one form or another for about thirty years now, and they still can’t install them when you’re not using the computer… This morning my…