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I have to say, I’m quite unimpressed with the announcements made at MacWorld by Apple. Perhaps Apple set the bar too high last year with the unexpected release of the iPhone, but I would have expected more from Apple in 2008.iPhone Updates – New features include: location on maps, movable icons, and multi-recipient SMS. [...]

I’ve been off of IM for a few days and generally less available online. My home computer has had something of a mishap, and I’m not sure how the recovery is going to go. As far as I can tell, the CPU block of the water cooling system sprung a slow leak, and [...]

Late tonight, a very annoying and blood-boiling shriek erupted from my computer. Although the noise was too loud to pinpoint, I had previously heard the sound and traced it to the water pump, but that time the sound stopped after a system restart and a handful of death threats.This time, the sound didn’t stop, [...]

This article sounds too absurd to be true, but if it is, it makes me really appreciate my job.

Anyone who has seen or heard about my crazy keyboard knows how fanatical I am about the technology. Imagine a touch-sensitive surface (or display) that can track more than one finger at a time and interpret their independent movements as gestures. This is multi-touch. My keyboard uses it over the entire keyboard surface, and [...]

So, for the first time ever, I’ve encountered a catastrophic failure in the Linux file system. Apparently, something went wonky (technical term) in the root partition (where all the important system files are kept) and nothing can run, not even the venerable fsck, which would be the only way to repair whatever damage was [...]

While still being worth it for obvious reasons, configuring X11 (X.org and XFree86 alike) has historically been a hair-pulling/head-banging task, though it is still lower than Apache 1.x on the HP/HB scale. Add to that the mysterious proprietary NVidia drivers. (I have no problem with the proprietary part, since it works, and it’s “free” [...]

Thanks Mom & Dad!!

I was pondering the abilities of my new phone, and I realized I could make it a remote for a couple things on my computer – mainly, music and TV. Since I’m too lazy to fix my computer’s infrared receiver box (and then too cheap to buy a shareware remote control program for my [...]

Around 6:15 this morning, I awoke to a beeping sound coming from my computer (downstairs… I’m a light sleeper.). It turns out that my video card temperature sensor tripped an alarm by rising to almost 150° F. The main processor temperature was over 130° and rising. I couldn’t figure out why everything [...]