Wow, three posts in one day! I’ve been working on a very old laptop (Compaq Armada), and installing Ubuntu Linux on it. This little machine has just been collecting dust for the past few months, patiently waiting for me to install a working operating system. With an old wireless card, I am now able to […]
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Another political post in two days? Wow! What is up with that? Just this, for at least the few months local television stations have been pushing the switch to DTV in Feb 2009. I purchased my digital converter before any local stations were using any sort of signal strength on the digital side. On
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There was a time, when I was in college that I wanted to be a teacher. Specifically, I wanted to teach High School Math. While in college, I did specialize in computers, I took the exact same classes for a teaching position. For the first 2.5 years of college, I was sure I would either
I’ve always tried out new (free) browsers as they are released since the inception of a browser as a program. I remember the first Mosaic browser. Quite a change from text based newsgroups and bulliten boards. Text and pictures all at once. Currently I’m using Windows XP and have Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome loaded
My weather day turned into a day to install my new router. This now allows all the computers in the house to access the cell modem at the same time. Yes, this does slow down from the direct connect speed just a bit, but if only one person is on, I didn’t notice any difference.
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Well I spent most of the day at the optometrist today to have a series of tests run. The Dr. found something that concerned him in my last visit, so I had to undergo a testing for glaucoma today. First there were pictures of the retina (those were cool) and then a series of pressure
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I went to search for a bunch of sites about the current plight of frogs, after seeing one daughter write about Frogs. So here they are for your attention: Save The Frogs Year of the Frog Care to Make a Difference Nerdy Science NZ Frogs 😉 Coffee and Frogs Amphibian Conservation A thousand Friends of
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Full shows available on the internet. Who would have thought of that. I also have enough speed to watch one as long as I don’t make the screen too big or watch anything else. I really liked that show when it was on. What I thought was great, is that some of the things he
It is a seasonal thing… I was going to post a news article about a big spider in Australia, but after seeing some of the pictures, I decided not to. If you really want to look it up, it was about a spider the size of a person’s hand dining on a bird. What really
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Anybody else see a theme forming… And this topics color is black.. Has anyone seen some of the headlines about the new Super Collider? Bunch of doom and gloom coming from somewhere. Things like “Fear Looms”, “Doomsday machine to start”, “Collider triggers end-of-world fears”, “Black Holes may devour the Earth”, “Will Collider destroy the Earth”,
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