The one good thing Windows taught me
The Mayor Daly rule: Backup early, and often. And of course, the IBM rules to guaranteed success with computing. 1. Always have a path back to the way it was, before you messed it up. 2. Always follow...
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Santa Claus Defeats (conquers) the Aliens
This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. He sends me cheesy movies! The worst he can find! (sha-la-la) Knowing I have a penchant for uber quality challenged horrible films, my friend Eric sent...
View ArticleNew Orange Theme
It was time to retire the familiar orangerehash Theme. Still keeping an orange theme, we are now using Tomasz Mazur orange coloured theme. If you find any problems, please let me know. I have wanted to...
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Blessed Retirement, Joe
Today is a hallmark day for my friend Joe Sloan. It was his last day as a Unix System Administrator, at Toyota Motor Sales, in Torrance, Ca. I have had the privilege of his friendship, guidance,...
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Comcast removes clear qam channels from their system
The nation’s largest cable tv provider, Comcast provided clear qam (or local channels in High Definition withOUT a cable box) over their cable system. Apparently, that has now come to an end. A...
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Lost in Space resistance is futile pre borg
Long before Star Trek the Next Generation. From “Lost in Space” (Season 2, Episode 13 — Wreck of the Robot) Pre-Borg! — This use predates Star Trek the Next Generation, by over 20 years. Resistance is...
View ArticleDear Comcast — I am NOT an idiot
Dear Comcast: Today I interacted via telephone with one of your offshore tech support agents, since I was unable to go online. customer.comcast.net was unable to tell me of any outages in my area. One...
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Rose Canyon Lake
this is just a test to see how things work via email. Rose Canyon Lake (picnic) – July 29, 2014
View ArticleMonty the Penguin (from John Lewis)
Before today, I never knew about Monty the Penguin or John Lewis. If you have not seen this delightful 2014 Christmas advertisment from John Lewis: Wayno
View ArticleComcast’s weird routing from Pima County to Facebook
Only Comcast — Instead of taking a short 21 mile hop from San Jose, California, to Menlo Park, California — Comcast does this: Goes from San Jose, California to Dallas, Texas. 1700 miles. Then it goes...
View ArticleSearches Fixed
There is something uber wrong with the orange theme that I had. Simple searches were failing. I dropped back to the original orangehash theme, and the searches are now working correctly. I installed...
View ArticleWhere’s Wayno
Many have asked — Where’s Wayno? We haven’t heard from you in quite sometime. Are you dead? (Not dead yet!) John Lennon said: Life is what happens, while you are busy doing other things. I have been...
View ArticleWe’re almost back…
Almost here I was hacked about a month ago by a former “friend” that used to post to this site. It took awhile to get things back together again, but we’re back in some rudimentary form. Thanks for...
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