Category: Computers

In case you didn’t notice, my server was off the air all day today. We had a major storm last night where we got more than four inches of rain in about an...

From the Finnish Music Industry to Mac users: “Buy a cd player.” “Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra pr...

I was working on a script to test our DNS servers here at work today and I discovered that there was a perl script in my scripts directory called “dispus&...

Wow. “The Texas Instruments DST tag is a cryptographically enabled RFID transponder used in several wide-scale systems including vehicle immobilizers and ...

The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a grow...

My server crashed at about 5:20 this morning with a CPU error: Sep 12 05:20:17 calvin kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004 A power cycle bro...

From Michael Ebeling’s blog: If you go through the same routine that I do when my Windows drives start to become full, which consists of right-clicking an...

This is a really interesting idea. IMSAI, who built “the first” consumer personal computer (an S100 Buss machine with an 8080 processor) is now rele...

There is a post on BoingBoing about the Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” being cracked in 24 hours. I’m going to post a copy of the crack here, i...

So all of a sudden I realized that my web site was loading really slowly. So I hopped on my server to discover that the load average was 55 and climbing! Top sh...