Category Archives: Computer Support

The mysterious process 772

Learned a lot of computer stuff in the last 2 days. just installed a category sorter in Greymatter the day before yesterday. Still getting the mistakes out as of today. Learned that folks at the Greymatter support forum are planning … Continue reading

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I really should be working

I’ve still got a ton of things I should be doing for work but a friend of mine introduced a new toy to me–Knoppix. Knoppix is a distro of Linux that runs entirely from a CD so, there is no … Continue reading

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Stupid Computer Tricks: Multi-booting NT, 9x and Linux

Again in the endeavor to make this site useful to Web developers, I present the following experiences in making an Intel/AMD multi-boot different OSes and file systems. I plan to revise this article extensively as time goes on and I … Continue reading

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The Stop Button for the Internet

Sure, it’s a joke, but in truth, the Internet ultimately depends on the hierarchy of the Domain Name System, which is, ultimately, controlled by eight server farms in Europe, Asia and North America, which in turn depend on updates every … Continue reading

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Another Minor Milestone

I got Linux running the way I want on my LAN now. Still lots of things to be done though. Need to upgrade all the appropriate pieces of the OS–starting with the default Red Hat 6.2 distribution. Need to get … Continue reading

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Links!

Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading

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Broadband is great stuff

This is finally sinking in. I held off on broadband for many, many months but now I realize it was worth the wait. My phone line is free. I can do long distance chat at Internet rates. I can do … Continue reading

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A Slow News Day While Tweaking XP

A nice simple article about what I mean when I say “semantic HTML“. Macromedia, responding to ongoing pressure from Web accessibility advocates, continues to improve the accessibility of it’s products. Good. If people insist on using it, at least make … Continue reading

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Theology

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything so, before I go to sleep tonight, I’d like to provide a statement about why I remain mostly closed mouth about Microsoft or other religious disputes. I will only state the following: … Continue reading

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Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition (SR) has come a long way in the last five or so years, just recently IBM researchers have managed to make it work in hand-held computers. Such developments might actually make hand-helds, which I’ve regarded as rather dubious … Continue reading

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