A little while ago I finished building a six-core workstation to replace my works-just-fine dual-core. Yesterday I rearranged the home office to put it into primary machine position.While the dual-core works just fine, it's being re-purposed as my sm… more »

As I was turning in last night, my Droid begged for attention. After finishing brushing my teeth, I peeked at the screen. I expected yet another e-mail announcement, but instead was rewarded with the alert that my system update was available! I've been w… more »

Anyone who had an old-school Palm Pilot remembers Graffiti, I'm sure. It used to take the lower third of the screen, and allowed a sort of sloppy single-stroke letter sketching for input. no soft or real keyboard in those days. When I got my old Windo… more »

In an effort to have a quick lunch, I hit the vending machine. Yummy, right? It's a fair vending machine, with fair vending machine stuff in it; salads, sandwiches, soups. Not great, but 20-30 minutes faster than running out to the nearest place. I s… more »

After earlier bonking the wrong button to power-up the laptop, grimacing upon learning that destroys non-Windows partitions, and working to recover from it all, the system is back.As mentioned, hitting the button caused the laptop to mess up my hard… more »

"Destroys laptop" is a little harsh, but it did destroy a partition on my hard drive, the one responsible for booting and running my OS, rendering it no longer useful.The hard drive itself is still functional, and the partitions other than the first… more »

Since I'm done building the hex-core, I decided that I could use the dual-core to host the web and mail services currently being served by a slower single-core Sempron. The dual-core nicely has twice the storage (500GB instead of 250GB) and four-times th… more »