Archive for July, 2007

The Natural is not so Natural

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

The only bad thing about I.M. Mortal III, is that Dell provided a mechanical mouse with a ball.  I’ve been using the same optical mouse for about 5 years now with out any problems.
With the old style ball mouse, I would have to take out the ball and clean it every 3 months and then […]

Smoking Motherboards

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I managed to fry my motherboard with a little help from Southern Cal Edison. They’ve been having power outages in Thousand Oaks with the last one causing all my servers to shutdown after the UPS ran out of juice.
ClknGo Server 1 (cngs1) is a Win2k server that automatically shuts down via a signal […]

182, 157 … 182, 215

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

If I was playing football, I’m sure that this was some obscure pattern that I would never remember from the play book. Wouldn’t it be easier just to say “go down and out?”
But in my case, the number sequence is from Apollyon, by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The publisher really screwed […]