Category: Modern Computing
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iPhone
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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
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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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RTFM
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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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Processing
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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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For sale
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Well, I’ve had my first encounter with selling something on ebay. For the most part, it’s pretty painless… I wanted to sell an old motherboard and my old Cintiq tablet…
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Busy…
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On the home-front, between finishing the move and unpacking, being down with the flu for a week, cleaning up the old townhouse, and offloading a gun safe and cast iron…
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Annnnd — scene.
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As of yesterday afternoon I’m officially moved. After dinner at “Cheddar’s” down the road, I spent the evening getting my bedroom and office set up, and after an exceptionally restful…
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Bad Battery
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As most folks know, rechargeable batteries can swell up when they fail. And I see that pretty often here at work given just now much hardware is floating around for…
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Secondlife Sightseeing
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Back in 2018, the group I ran role-play sims in SecondLife with decided they wanted to play in a futuristic space setting. Of course to do this required a sim…
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The world according to Microsoft…
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Super busy with a project right now, but while this .iso comes down from Microsoft I just had to post an observation… Microsoft’s “Hyper-V” is their house-brand hypervisor for virtual…
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Cyberpunk 2077, part 2
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Well, I finished the storyline for Cyberpunk 2077, and it was pretty incredible. The game was $60, and I think it took me about 40 hours to finish the story…
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Cyberpunk
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So, CDProjectRed’s “Cyberpunk 2077” released a few days ago. I’m an old fan of Cyberpunk, from back in the late 80’s when it was a tabletop roleplaying game from R.…
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Server Shenanigans
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Not a lot of updates this week mostly because I’ve been pretty busy with work. Right now I’m front-loading the setup hours for a test that requires five 2012r2 servers.…
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Update…
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Here we are, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a 4-day weekend for me starting tomorrow, so I might actually get a chance to muck about with the new…
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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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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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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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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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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…