Less Noise Is Good News
In preparation for moving to a new home I’ve been going through my stash of surplus motherboards, hard drives, etc., and getting them ready to…
The P in PC Stands for Personal
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on the part of more and more companies selling software products, or hardware products like printers which require a software…
Almost 2,000 Days of Spam
That’s the period for which I have statistics on the spam and non-spam email that arrived at my mail server. Now that I’ve moved to…
End of an Era: Part 1
Sometime in the late 90s I decided to learn enough about Linux to wire my house to the internet and run my own email server.…
Can I Have Some Ice Cream with That?
[singlepic id=1 w=200] I got my first Raspberry Pi the other day. For those not in the know, it’s a single-board computer — just barely…
There’s Always a First Time
I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent twiddling my thumbs over the years as various versions of Windows let me know that they’re…