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 to know each other. The usual process goes something like this; I pull up in my big rumbly sedan at…
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 a chilly September in Connecticut, 34 years ago, that I set up the first computer that I actually purchased for…
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 has discovered a network shortcoming that I’ve been tasked to fix. See, he bought the place off of some relatives…
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 and put out a few kinds of poison to fix it. See, we need to protect Mother Nature as long…
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 MacPro 5,1 that I’m using at work – which runs logged in, 24/7, for a few cron jobs as well…
It’s been a bit, so I should probably post something for proof of life. The roommate’s hospital visit on the 9th turned into a fiasco; I delivered him at noon and was back there again at 4pm because they had to cancel the surgery. Apparently, the day before someone from…