(The “him” is our cat Winston, who went missing on Monday, as we were moving out.) The cats hadn’t been allowed in the basement for the last couple years, but we let them roam freely down there on moving day, and Oliver immediately rediscovered — and christened — the unused litter box there, multiple times. …
I don’t often delve into politics here, partly because I find them distasteful and partly because I know that, realistically, any amount of good I could do would be minuscule. But I have to make an exception today. The government of the United States is broken. Just about everyone agrees with that. And just about …
Tired of having to remember to charge your cell phone every night, or of running out of juice in the middle of a call? Scientists may have come up with a solution for you: just go for a walk. Oddly enough, I’ve never seen this kind of thing mentioned in science fiction. It seems obvious …
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Wow, this is a blast from the past — a worm that overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard drive. I haven’t seen one of those since the early nineties. But believe it or not, that’s not really destructive… just fdisk /mbr to rebuild the MBR, and unless the worm has done a …
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It’s a very long article, so I’ve only skimmed the answers that their chosen experts gave, but it’s very odd to me that the answers were so varied. Market share was brought up several times, as an argument for a Mac (or Linux, though that was barely mentioned), but others said that market share matters …
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Or, to translate from the very British terminology: companies using Windows are planning to upgrade to Windows 7 before the first service pack. Of course, that’s hardly news to us in the hard-core tech-geek community, because we see Windows 7 as nothing more than a large (and very much needed) service pack for Windows Vista …
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We’re safely ensconced in the new place now… well, most of us. Our cat Winston ran out the door while the movers were there. I followed his tracks down the street (it’s the only time you’ll hear me say it, but thank God for fresh snow), but eventually lost them. He may still show up …
My Internet connection (and phone line) will be down this morning. If all goes well, it’ll be back before noon, at the new place; if it doesn’t, I’ll be back as soon as I’m able. I’d like to officially thank our friends c-square, W, and B for helping us with the main part of the …
Google is taking over the ‘net — in more ways than one. Apparently advertising pays a lot more than we thought.
I’ve long maintained that anyone with a normally-working brain can learn to be smart. This article lends weight to that opinion.