Category: Modern Computing
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Cleaning
Back in March I bought the 16″ MacBook Pro I’ve been using this year, and by using I mean it’s basically an electronic RV that I move from place to…
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BBSing
For the sheer Back-To-The-Future-Ness of it, I’ve spent some time over the last few days working out how to get 20th century analog to work with 21st century digital. See,…
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MacBroke Pro
One of the responsibilities of being an “IT Professional” is supplying computer fixes for friends, employees, friends of employees, etcetera. Today’s example is a 2011 15″ MacBook Pro belonging to…
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Watch
I have successfully written, compiled, and executed an app on the Apple Watch… The most complicated bit was dealing with dependencies, the code signing, and granting myself permission on everything…
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Case
The new case for the iPhone came in today… I figured making the iPhone SE look like the Macintosh SE was oddly apropos. Listening to “Blue Morning, Blue Day” by…
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Mindful
With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose. Before I could set up the watch with the new…
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iPhone
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
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
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
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
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…
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.
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…