Author: rihahn
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History in computers
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My company has been in business since 1999, and one of the services we used to provide was hardware compatibility testing. What hardware compatibility testing is, is seeing how a…
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But it’s a dry heat
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Summer has finally arrived here in Colorado, and over the weekend it went from rainy and mid-70’s to dry and mid-90’s. And, being as the local utility company has raised…
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Despite the cost of living, it remains popular
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Just got back from my Saturday morning run to King Soopers; $27 in gas and $111.70 ($93.43 after coupons) in groceries. Gas was $0.50 off thanks to grocery points, so…
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Exhibit A
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Right after the last post, I had to break out the old Dell laptop again – so I figured I’d do a quick post that kind of illustrates a typical…
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Let’s Get Dangerous
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I do complicated computer wizardry as part of my day-to-day life so I’m always elbow deep in some bit of hardware, reverse engineering the new hotness, or hacking functionality into…
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Music
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Music is a pretty large part of my life, which is one of the reasons good reproduction of it has been so important to me over the years… I’ve always…
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‘Burger Helper
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It’s been a long time since I’ve made Hamburger Helper… In fact, the last time was probably back when I was in the Navy and living in New London –…
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Book Report
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Back in August I decided to take on the challenge of re-reading / reading the entire Xanth Series by Piers Anthony. In January I was most of the way through…
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Update
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Back on march 31st, we had a bit of a fire nearby… A fire that caused about a dozen homes to be evacuated while the local fire department spent most…
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I drive an invisible car…
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That has to be it. It’s the only thing I can think of that explains the propensity for people to completely miss the fact that my bright white four door…
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iPod
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Today’s old hardware is a 4th generation iPod Touch… While I don’t have my original ‘click wheel’ iPod anymore, I do still have my original 2005 iPod Shuffle and this…
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WWDC 23
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Yesterday was the annual Apple “World Wide Developer Conference” – which is where Apple shows off all of their new and updated stuff. There was all of the usual stuff;…
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SGI
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Ever wondered what a $30,000 computer looked like in the mid 90’s? Well, let me show you… The above, in 1994, came with a 150Mhz R4400SC cpu, 24-bit XL graphics…
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Mixtapes
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If you’ve ever wondered what it was like being in Highschool in the mid-80’s – here’s the musical version: “Mixtapes” by Moonrunner83 – featuring N8TVS Waking up in the middle…
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Crowfall
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Back in March of 2015 I heard that an MMO I really liked back in the old days of the early 2000’s – Shadowbane – was having a bit of…
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Ance-story
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On a lark, this weekend I was engaged in one of the traditional pastimes of “old people” – the Family Tree. In short, like most things with my life, it’s…
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Land of (lane) Confusion
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Another day, another curious example of why everyone’s car insurance costs so much… The police officer who pulled up into the opposite turn lane just as the space cadet ran…
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Hand Crafted Bits
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The site took a dive yesterday; completely fubar’d. So today I sftp’d my backup of the old wp-content directory into a totally new GoDaddy server instance, which then required hand-jamming…
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Breaking And Entering
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This morning at 0500 I got a text from my CFO asking if I was up – and of course I was because 0500 is when I start the day……
