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I think she should be on the “no fly” list.
Month: September 2007
to the boneyard, updated
Clearing out a lot of old surplus junk this week, and my local recycler is going to be the beneficiary. I have to pay him, it’s so bad.
- gateway PC, ca. 1993 (a raging 233 MHz)
- PowerMac 9500, ca. 1995 (identically fast)
- 17 inch display
- 15 inch display
- assorted keyboards
- a logic board I picked up and never used
- some old disk drives and CD drives.
[cost me $36.50 to get rid of this $%^&. Apple branded monitors cost extra to get rid of, apparently, so the 17 inch Studio Display separated me from $15.]
Trying to sell an old G3 iMac on Craigslist, without a lot of optimism, even for a tenth of what it cost 7 years ago. I figured the kids might use it, but they prefer the G5 iMac (not that I blame them) and I like them using it where I can see ’em.
Keeping, for now, an old ThinkPad with a good DVD drive, as a way to play DVDs, if nothing else. I scraped it clean and applied the restore CD today, but I may put Ubuntu on it just to see if that makes better use of it than Win2K.
[Ubuntu won’t install on the ThinkPad, as there is a risk of overwriting the serial eeprom, according to an error displayed, just before the process gives up and hangs.]
annals of customer support
Looks like Penguin Radio is dead to me.
quote of the day
Coding Horror: Falling Into The Pit of Success:
Comparing C++ to C#, Java et al and say it’s a terrible language is like wondering why someone invented B&W TV since color TV is obviously so much better.
links for 2007-09-01
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Perhaps I should savor a Belgian in his honor.
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what an epic smackdown. If he missed anything I don’t see it, but the folks at NBC should take another look at their “strategy.”
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fascinating (like a trainwreck) thread on the Larry ‘I have never been gay’ Craig incident. Quite a range of opinions, from and about both straights and gays.
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Yup, it’s there (in the latest version) but don’t try it with a small laptop keyboard — you run out of buttons.