Category Archives: Tech

So, after pulling for the little guy, I have finally switched to WordPress. I’m sorry to the Java folks out there. I really did want to use a Java-based blogging engine. However, Roller simply did not meet my needs: Run on a Cobalt Qube 2 Run for more than a week without crapping out IContinue reading “Moved to WordPress”

First of all, you can’t win using Javascript in a browser. There’s always some stupid bug, either in the browser or in the Javascript itself, or in the site which uses it, or whatever, which prevents your Javascript from working properly. There, I said it: Your Javascript will break. Given that cosmic truth, why doContinue reading “Your Javascript Sucks”

I recently purchased a wireless ethernet USB adapter from D-Link – the DWL-122 to be exact. It turns out that the item was defective, and I called customer support to get an RMA number to return the adapter. I went through all the hoops that I despise, even though I know that the customer supportContinue reading “It’s Good to be Smart”

This morning, I was having trouble sending email. I have Comcast Cable Internet services, and there didn’t seem to be anything on their web site about any outtages or anything, so I thought I’d get onto their LiveSupport chat thing and quickly talk to a person. Now, let me tell you: this LiveSupport chat thingContinue reading “Customer “Support””

Several weeks ago, one of the servers that I manage suffered a hard drive failure :(. The machine itself was, ahem, on the low-end of the server-capable scale for Java applications (P3 500MHz with 256MB RAM), and honestly, we were getting a great deal on it. Since the disk failed, and we needed to doContinue reading “Vindication”

I generally count myself lucky as I do not receive a lot of spam email. I also use an email client with superb spam filtering features. However, over the past few days, I’ve gotton nearly identical emails from virtually the same place, and guess what? They’re all for spam filtering software. I checked into bothContinue reading “Oh, the Irony”

Today, I was wading through a lot of old computer stuff that I have lying around, and I came across a LogiTech-branded Microsoft Windows 3.1 box, complete with 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy disks. Wow. I did what any red-blooded, nostalgic computer dork would do: I installed it on a vmware instance. Here it is inContinue reading “Old Skool Software”