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The Challenge!
Ladies and Gentleman! Boys and Girls! Gather round and hear about an incredible offer!I've been a corporate whore for at least a decade now, pimping my skills in exchange for paychecks. Now it's your...
View ArticleRobocopy
When Jer's motherboard bit the dust he saw an opportunity to rebuild his PC, but what to do with the 140GB of data on his SATA drive while he reinstalled the OS?I have plenty of storage space and after...
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MacGyver Envy
http://www.peepculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/wenger-giant-swiss-army.jpgWeighing in at 2 lbs 10 oz and 8.75" in length Wenger has finally introduced a pocket knife just as feature packed as...
View ArticleUrrgh... Gaaaah!
http://www.gegereka.com/It's all out there somewhere...I use google a lot for this sort of thing but this site really cuts through the crap. It's a file search engine. Pick a file - any file. *NICE*
View ArticleThe aging gamer...
I've been playing games for a long time - from Space Invaders in the arcade to pong on the TV at home - through the years of DonkeyKong and Atari 2600. I spent countless hours on Civilization, Oregon...
View ArticleThe Bastard...
It has recently come to my attention that there are a number of highly skilled and very talented systems administrators out there that have NO idea who the Bastard Operator From Hell is.My mind balks...
View ArticleNot extinct!
No, no... Techosaurus Rex has not become extinct. My apologies for being so quiet lately.With the holidays and my habit of getting submerged in things I've been fairly dormant, but let's catch up! The...
View ArticleSon of ROBOCOPY!
So, they finally did it! Now there's a slick GUI to create robocopy scripts! NICE!I'm still working toward a big rack rebuild in the basement. No new hardware or machines but it's time to do some...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Mrs. Rex!
I just wanted to shout out a quick Happy Birthday! to Mrs. Rex - She keeps me sane, she keeps me safe. She's the love of my life!
View ArticleGame Tapping
I've been playing a little GameTap on a free trial lately. Lots of good old standby games like Interstate 76 and GunMetal. I dunno if it's worth the money but it has been enjoyable.We had a lovely run...
View ArticleMediaPortal Review
I've decided to get into a little more detail for this particular post. I have been running MediaPortal in Windows XP for nearly a month now and I'm ready to give you the low-down.First, the...
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Dual Core - It's "better"!
Oi!Sigh...It's the same old story - the same old bullshit. Intel and AMD along with their cohorts (HP, Gateway, Dell and every other system manufacturer on the planet) are once again pummeling us with...
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I hate printers...
Okay, I admit it - I hate printers.I long for the good old days of line printers where all you needed to do to put ink on paper was echo a string to lpt.Of course you couldn't print pictures, except...
View ArticlePUSH BACK!
A few days back I wrote about Multi-Core processing technology and how most people don't need it. Well, it seems my timing was dead on. Since then I've been embroiled in a number of discussions about...
View ArticleGoogled
So my recent deployment of the MediaPortal machine has kind of left me scrounging for storage. I've pulled the big drive out of my personal workstation to satiate AVServer's relentless hunger and...
View Article09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
Time for a quick "googlepc" update...For the most part I've been satisfied using Google Docs as a replacement for word/excel. But there have been some deal breaking issues.First of all is availability...
View ArticleThe Greatest Book In The World...
Outside of work I would say I probably read as much from paper as I do from cathode ray nipple (Or I guess the liquid crystal nipple nowadays). But, it's actually true. Once you add in work to the mix...
View ArticleOh my GOD!
So, just to figure out how it all works I stuck a google adsense box down there on the right hand banner of this here blog.It's been "Help Hurricane Katrina Relief" and other stuff for months now. This...
View ArticleThe sharpest tool in the drawer...
I had a frustrating time last night. Mrs. Rex's dad had his main drive partitioned up into a 4GB C: drive and a 26GB D: drive and was having problems with C: filling up.I'd recently gotten a new...
View ArticleThere can be more than one...
Okay, I admit it. It finally happened to me. I'm converted, I've seen the world in a whole new light. It happened yesterday morning...reading through a number of my blogs I found a number of references...
View ArticleA couple of thoughts...
1) Ubuntu Feisty Fawn isn't ready for the general masses. I hope you understand I write this for geeks. There are plenty of quirks and weirdness here to make me mark it a green or blue.These guys had a...
View ArticleYes, we are still online...
I know, it's been months!Sorry 'bout that - been busy over this summer. But I'm back and I've got some good tasty tidbits for y'all.First off - Feisty Fawn, in the long run, just hasn't cut it for me....
View Article'Come with me if you want to live."
I had a strange dream this afternoon. Outright bizarre, actually, totally compelling, energizing and stirring hope deep within me for the future of quality television.It must have been a dream because...
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It's just a good idea!
OLPC has caught a lot of flack, but it looks like they are ready to step into production.If you have kids take advantage of the donate one, get one deal starting November 12th. If you don't have kids...
View ArticleWho? Pt 1
Yeah, yeah, it's been a year or two now I think. But, I've started helping someone by email with a hosting solution migration and figured since I was typing it all I'd share and enjoy...This article...
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