Chris’ specs on a < $1K computer from Micro Pro: AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz (266 FSB) w/ heavy duty heat sink & fan assembly ATX Mid Tower Case with 300 Watt ATX PS K&S5A Thunderbird/Duron – Ultra 100 – ATX motherboard ( 1 4x AGP – 5 PCI – Ultra33/66/100 ) 256MB PC2100 DDR memory…
If you didn’t notice… I archived. Moved Chris’ specs to my livejournal.
Have 2 new directories on my Fountain of Knowledge web site. One is for TBI Pictures (notice none are of me yet). The other is for family reunion pictures. Here is this pita translated into “hacker“. Or at least RinkWorks’ Dialectizer interpulation of hacker aka l33t. Have to scan the other 2 rolls of film I picked up…
Scavenged RAM from one old computer for another last night. Have not turned it on to see if the new boards will work yet. New Yahoo! Article…Â New Malicious Computer Worm Preys on Anthrax Scare Think the idea of “alternate” domain providers (read rogue) is not such a good idea. First of all, computers have to…
Writing up policies and procedures. What fun! Articulating what I already know. Course, it could be that I only thought that I knew them. Very real possibility.
Who knows how all of the possibilities for the extinction of human kind? We have the biologicals such as viruses and bacteria. We have seen near misses by comets and astroids certainly large enough to wipe us out. Patterns of evolution indicate there are large spurts of evolutionary change periodically as species after species is wiped…
Ah, installing Acrobat Distiller and PageMaker 6.5 so that I can convert the files the one person that still uses PageMaker needs me to make into PDFs. Deal is, you have to have a postscript printer installed to install Acrobat 4. So I had to crack that nut first. Think I might have it now.
Updated the Fountain of Knowledge layout. Was more removing the picture and making the page simpler. Looking to see if my VCR will play PAL tapes. Odds are not likely. Ran across this list of Windows file extensions with executable code at techtv. The value of the list is these are the file types virus writers use to…
Bandits was a trip. Funny movie. Too bad Erin couldn’t go. Hillarious. Feels like my memory is dying. Things I know I should know, like the director of Men in Black is Barry Sonnenfeld not Barry Levinson. That the drug is Ginko Biloba not Ginko Balboa. At least I don’t munge / forget important things like…