One more robot learns to be something more than a machine…
I’m sad to say that my first Mac, a 12″ iBook G4, is dead. I’ll never forget lap dances from the ol’ iTramp… It was definitely one of the best computers I have ever owned.
After taking a spill, the internal display no longer works, which some certified repair technicians tell me would probably cost one [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by brian
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For quite awhile I’ve been interested in setting up a low-power machine to do my home server tasks and allow for some geeky linux experiments. After doing the initial cost-benefit analysis it didn’t appear that I’d be able to build anything that would be cheap enough to give a reasonable return on investment, in [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by brian
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I’ve tried a number of third-party firmwares for my Linksys WRT54GS router, however I find myself extremely satisfied with one in particular: Tomato. I just upgraded to the latest version and once again I was reminded of how wonderful this software is. Just like the other third-party firmwares for Linksys routers, it’s [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2008 by brian
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Last summer, I setup my HP DeskJet 930C printer to my linux server running Fedora 7. I used the included CUPS server to share the printer with the rest of my network, including a Windows XP box, and two Macs running Leopard. It was working great until a few months ago when printing just [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by brian
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