The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
There it is in all its non-functioning glory, my almost 4-year-old Hewlett-Packard. How the mighty have fallen. And so young, too.
Actually, it’s not completely dead: If you try long enough it will post sometimes, and then you have a good shot at booting into Linux. It doesn’t like booting into Windows, though. I’m thinking [...]
With an industrial SSI Quad shredder, this is how you take care of hard drives you don’t want anyone to try and recover data from.
A while back I decided to take the plunge and build my own media center PC. I had tried a lot of other ways to get my digital media into the living room — very long speaker wire, laptops hooked up to the stereo receiver, even a Gateway connected DVD player — but none of [...]
If we were cooler, or richer, or better looking, I’m sure we would have been at CES gawking over the latest and greatest electronic gadgets all weekend long. As it turns out, we’re just a dull bunch of geeks stuck far from the action. Luckily, though, some top bloggers from Engadet, Joystiq, Gizmodo, and Ubergizmo [...]
Well now I have another reason to fear all the PCs in my house. According to an article in today’s New York Times (from a post on Boing Boing), more than 65 million personal computers have been hijacked by spammers and other Interweb scalawags and are being used for denial of service attacks, [...]
