Almost ten years ago I was on a roadtrip to Moses Lake, Wa to attend the wedding of my computer guru. On the first morning of a week long trip I awoke in a South Dakota motel room to a the picture of a tower in flames. As I watched a second plane hit the [...]
Sorry to have ignored the site for some time however I am slowly getting ready to start full time once again or that is the game plan today. And no I have not given up Linux or Mepis and am still fiddling with both. Thanks to all who have written and called to ask as [...]
It’s doubtful that anyone really likes having to upgrade, but at some point it has to be done. For those particularly adverse to the upgrade — like enterprise users, with good reason — there are extra-long windows, but eventually even those windows close. Last week, Red Hat announced that the oldest of its supported [...]
I have been humbled over the last two weeks by the over whelming out pouring of offers of help in ways that have left me shocked and totally humbled. From friends that I had not heard from in years came out of the woodwork in ways I can not put into words.And from the everyday [...]
What happened to the old “sysadmin” of just a few years ago? We’ve split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams, and network teams. Now look at what we’ve done — knowledge is so decentralized we must invent new roles to act as liaisons between all the IT [...]
I still have my copy of the 1975 issue of Popular Electronics with the Altair on the cover. H. Edward Roberts died this week at age 68. If you don’t know the story of how Roberts helped launch the personal computing revolution, let us fill you in.[...]Even with $250,000 in debt and a collapsing [...]
As you can see he really has gotten into getting really comfy when it comes to his morning nap.
Yuppers the blizzards were not enough because here is the ice storm. Jeeesh what a nice winter. These are branches that normally are 5 foot above the deck and here they are.
Okay for goodness sake enough is enough! With only 5″ of snow on the ground this is all the new stuff over night and with 12 hours more to come there should be a great mess by morning when the high winds hit. And for those you have asked the can is full of BBQ [...]
Well as the saying goes all good things must come to a end. Even thought my mental stability was questioned about the fact that I was going to leave sunny and 75° weather to return to a really different end of the spectrum. But what can I say folks have been saying I am crazy [...]